Kwon Soon-woo advances to the second round of French Open tennis… First major win in about 2 years
Kwon Soon-woo (494th) advanced to the second round of the men's singles at the French Open tennis tournament (total prize money of 53.5 million euros, approximately 79.4 billion won).
Kwon Soon-woo defeated Emil Rusubuori (67th, Finland) 3-0 (6-3 6-4 6-3) in the first round of the singles finals on the second day of the tournament held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France on the 27th. https://www.casinositeking.com
Kwon Soon-woo, who reached the round of 64, competes with Sebastian Korda (28th, USA) to advance to the third round.
Korda is the younger brother of Nellie Korda (USA), the current world number one in women's golf.
Kwon Soon-woo and Korda faced each other once in 2021, and Korda won 2-0 (6-4 6-4).
This is the first time in 1 year and 9 months that Kwon Soon-woo has won the singles final of a major tournament since advancing to the second round of the US Open in August 2022.
Last season, he was eliminated in the first round at the Australian Open and US Open, and missed the French Open and Wimbledon.
Kwon Soon-woo, who was eliminated in the first round at the Australian Open in January of this year, secured prize money of 110,000 euros (about 160 million won) to advance to the second round of the singles finals of this tournament.
Kwon Soon-woo took the lead by winning the first set 6-3 on this day.
He broke his opponent's serve game twice in the early stages and ran away with the game score of 4-1, allowed the chase to go to 4-3, and then saved his own serve game after five deuces, making it 5-3 and taking a breather.
In the second set, each player held serve, and with Kwon Soon-woo leading 5-4, the game was stopped for about an hour due to rain. https://www.liveinternet.ru/us....ers/casinositewiki/p
Afterwards, in the resumption of the game, Kwon Soon-woo immediately broke Rusubuori's serve game, making the set score 2-0.
Bad weather continued in the third set, disrupting the progress of the game.