Kwon Soon-woo missed the first round of the Australian Open… Completely defeated by Kokinakis

– Kwon Soon-woo (24th, Dangjin City Hall, 97th place) lost completely in the first round of the men’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis tournament, the first major tournament of the season.

Kwon Soon-woo lost 0-3 (4-6 1-6 1-6) to Seonashi Kokinakis (25th, Australia, 267th place) in the first round of the men’s singles final held in Melbourne Park, Australia on the 9th.

Kwon Soon-woo, who entered the Australian Open singles finals for the third time following 2018 and 2020, failed to win all three.

The 2020 US Open is the only one that Kwon Soon-woo has tasted victory in the majors singles finals. At that time, after winning the first round, he was eliminated in the second round. Kwon Soon-woo was unable to properly cope with the opponent’s strong serve and drank a bitter cup of defeat. Kwon Soon-woo gave out a whopping 19 subaces, and he ended up with only two. The average speed of the first serve was 194 km per hour for Kokinakis, 12 km faster than Kwon Soon-woo’s 182 km.

I was nervous from the start. Kwon Soon-woo was allowed to break without giving a point in his sub-game, the first game in the first set.

Kwon Soon-Woo kept up with his sub-games well afterwards, and took a chance to reverse the mood by winning a breakpoint in the opponent’s sub-game behind with a game score of 4-5.

However, after giving three points down, the opportunity was not saved, and the first set became Kokinakis’s charge.

Kwon Soon-woo, who broke his first sub-game in the second set, fell behind with a game score of 1-2 and devoted 4 games to the edge of the cliff.

Kwon Soon-woo failed to counterattack even in the third set. Kwon Soon-woo, who gave five games in a row after the start of the 3rd set, finally accepted the result of losing in 1 hour and 33 minutes.

Kokinakis, who was an opponent of Kwon Soon-woo, was pushed out of the top 200 in the world ranking by blowing the whole 2020 season in the aftermath of the injury he suffered in 2019, but was a player who rose to 69 in the world ranking in 2015. At the 2015 French Open, he even advanced to the third round.

At the 2018 Miami Open, he won attention by defeating’Emperor’ Roger Federer (Switzerland, 5th place), who was the first in the world ranking at the time.

Following 2014 and 2015, Kokinakis, who took on the stage of the second round of the Australian Open for the third time in her personal career, aims to advance to the third round of the first Australian Open.

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