Soon-Woo Kwon topples Benoit Paire 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Barcelona on Monday. Kwon will play Carlos Alcaraz in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes.
Kwon added to his prize money € 9,085 after winning this match. He has won already € 19,465 after this win. If he wins the next match, Soon-Woo will add € 16,090 to his earnings to get in total € 35,555 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Soon-Woo scored 75 points vs. the French player’s 62.
Kwon
Kwon served pretty well to win 75% of the points (30/40) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (12/21) on his second serve. Soon-Woo won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Paire
On the other side, Benoit didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Kwon and Paire is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Soon-Woo Kwon vs. Carlos Alcaraz – stats
Kwon will square off with Alcaraz in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Soon-Woo Kwon and Carlos Alcaraz since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Kwon was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Benoit Paire in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more work to do for Soon-Woo to win the set as Paire managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Kwon kept his cool to break the French player in the 10th (6-4) game.
The Korean converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). On the other side, Paire was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 15-40).
They contested 67 points. Kwon was the one to win the set after conquering 5 more points than Paire (36-31). The Korean lost 11 points on serve (19-11). on the other side of the net, the French player conceded 17 points on serve (20-17).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Soon-Woo conquered in the 10th
game (6-4).Kwon converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the French player wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 1st game (0-0 40-A).
They contested 70 points. Soon-Woo conquered the set after winning 8 more points than the French player (39-31). Soon-Woo surrendered 8 points on serve (23-8). on the other side of the court, Paire conceded 16 points on serve (23-16
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