TOKYO. Andujar victorious over Kwon in the qualifications of the Rakuten Japan Open

Pablo Andujar wins against Soon-Woo Kwon 7-5 6-4 in the qualifications in Tokyo on Sunday. Andujar will clash against Gilles Simon in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kwon was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Andujar in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, Andujar managed to stage a good comeback to break Soon-Woo 3 times in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Kwon lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).

2^nd set.

The Spaniard conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 4^th (1-3) game, The Spaniard broke back in the 7^th (3-4) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

Soon-Woo was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-4 to 6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Pablo scored 81 points vs. Kwon’s 70 points.

The Spaniard won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Soon-Woo wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 43% of his break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Andujar and Kwon is 1-0 for Pablo.

Next Match: Pablo Andujar vs. Gilles Simon – stats

Andujar will come up against Simon in the 1^st round.

This will be the 5^th time that Pablo Andujar and Gilles Simon fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Andujar (see full H2H stats), but Simon has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Andujar won 6-1 6-1 in the semifinal in Marrakech back in April 2019.

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• John MillmanMillman – Tatsuma ItoIto (7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Marcel GranollersGranollers (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-3 7-6⁰) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Gilles SimonSimon (3-1) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Marin CilicCilic (0-0) – See H2H details
• John MillmanMillman – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – See H2H details
• Radu AlbotAlbot – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-1) – See H2H details
• David GoffinGoffin – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (1-2) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Go SoedaSoeda (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – See H2H details
• Taro DanielDaniel – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Joao SousaSousa (1-0) – See H2H details
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Lucas PouillePouille (2-0) – See H2H details
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (2-0) – See H2H details
• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – See H2H details
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – See H2H details