Kwon Soon-woo
Kwon Soon-woo was born in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on December 2nd, 1997 and is the South Korean Tennis Player (1997-). At the age of 26, Kwon Soon-woo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 26 years old, Kwon Soon-woo has this physical status:
Kwon made his tour-level and Grand Slam debut after winning the 2018 Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff for the main draw of the 2018 Australian Open.
He made his top 100 debut on 5 August 2019 at World No. 97 after reaching the quarterfinals as a qualifier at the 2019 Los Cabos Open.
In February 2020, Kwon reached four consecutive ATP Tour-level quarter-finals in Pune, New York, Delray Beach and Acapulco. As a result, Kwon rose to a career-high ranking of 69 on 2 March 2020. Kwon defeated World No. 24 Dušan Lajović in straight sets to reach the quarter-finals in Acapulco, which was his first ATP 500 event. He lost to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals.
At the 2020 US Open Kwon recorded his first win in a Grand Slam defeating wildcard Thai-Son Kwiatkowski.
Kwon reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career at the 2021 French Open where he defeated South African Kevin Anderson and Andreas Seppi before losing to another Italian 9th seed and eventual quarterfinalist Matteo Berrettini.
Despite losing in qualifications at the Eastbourne International, Kwon entered with a second-round bye as a lucky loser after Reilly Opelka withdrew. He made the semifinals before falling to Alex de Minaur. Kwon was competing in his maiden ATP tour semifinal after winning his first quarterfinal in his eighth attempt against Ilya Ivashka.
In Nur-Sultan, Kwon won his first ATP tour level title. There, he defeated qualifier Evgeny Donskoy, 3rd seed Dušan Lajović, and 7th seed Laslo Đere to reach his second ATP semifinal. In the semifinal, he defeated home favourite and second seed Alexander Bublik to advance to his first ATP tour-level final. He defeated James Duckworth in straight sets to win his first ATP title and became the first South Korean to win on the ATP Tour and only the second Korean to win a tour-level title in the Open Era since 2003 Sydney champion Hyung-Taik Lee. As a result, he reached a new career-high of No. 57 on 27 September 2021.
At the 2022 Australian Open, he won his first match defeating Holger Rune in five sets. He lost in the second round to Denis Shapovalov in a tight five set match with three tiebreaks.
At Wimbledon, he lost in the first round to the top seed and eventual champion Novak Djokovic in four sets.
Ranked No. 120 at the 2022 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, he reached the quarterfinals for a second time at an ATP 500 tour-level defeating sixth seed Alex de Minaur and Mackenzie McDonald. He defeated Pedro Martinez (tennis) to reach his first ATP 500 tour-level semifinal. As a result he moved more then 30 positions up in the rankings back into the top 100.