Soon-Woo Kwon stuns Alex De Minaur 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to deal with Mackenzie Mcdonald in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the qualifications in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Soon-Woo added to his prize money $ 13,330 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 28,565 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Korean will add $ 24,955 to his earnings to get in total $ 53,520 in total.
Highlights Soon-Woo Kwon vs. Alex De Minaur Rakuten Japan Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Soon-Woo scored 61 points vs. De Minaur’s 43.
Kwon
Kwon served extremely well to win 76% of the points (19/25) behind his first serve, and he won 76% points (13/17) on his second serve. The Korean won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points after he converted only 33% (4/12) of the procured opportunities.
De Minaur
On the other side, De Minaur wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Kwon and De Minaur is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Soon-Woo Kwon vs. Mackenzie Mcdonald – stats
Kwon will come up against Mcdonald in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Soon-Woo Kwon and Mackenzie Mcdonald face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kwon (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Soon-Woo won the set after he broke Alex in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Korean was unable to break the Australian in the 3rd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Alex had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-3 to 6-3.
The Korean converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (3-3 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Kwon didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 55 points. The Korean was the one to win the set after conquering 7 points more than Alex (31-24). Kwon conceded 6 points on serve (16-6). In addition, on the other side, Alex conceded 15 points on serve (18-15).
The Korean in this set was more solid than Alex and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking the Australian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Korean converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Korean didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 49 points. Soon-Woo won 11 points more than the Australian (30-19). Soon-Woo was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). In addition, on the other side, Alex conceded 14 points on serve (15-14).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
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- Borna CoricCoric – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (6-4 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 3-6 7-61) – Stats and score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-64 6-72 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Casper RuudRuud (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-73 6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Taro DanielDaniel (7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Steve JohnsonJohnson (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H details and stats