Kwon Sun-woo (84th place, Dangjin City Hall, photo), the Korean men’s tennis ‘signboard’, overpowered strong player Pablo Carreño Busta (15th place, Spain).
Soon-Woo Kwon defeated No. 2 seed Carreño Busta 2-1 (3-6 6-4 6) in the round of 16 singles at the 2nd Men’s Professional Tennis (ATP) Tour Adelaide International Tournament held in Adelaide, Australia on the 11th (total prize money of $642,735). -4) We had a come-from-behind victory. This is the first time Kwon has won on tour against a player in the top 20. Previously, the highest ranking players defeated by Kwon Soon-woo were Luca Fuyu (France) in 2019 and Dusan Rayovic (Serbia) in 2020, and their world rankings at the time were all 24th. However, Kwon Soon-woo had the experience of winning against Felix Ojealiasim (Canada), who was ranked 13th at the time last year, in the Davis Cup, a national competition, not a tour event.
Carreño Busta has won a total of seven singles tours and is a strong player who ranked 10th in September 2017. He has reached the semifinals twice (2017/2020) at the US Open singles and the quarterfinals twice (2017/2020) at the French Open singles. 바카라
Kwon Soon-woo won the 1st and 2nd rounds of the preliminaries at the 1st round of the Adelaide International last week and made it to the final round, but was eliminated in the 1st round. In the second round of the preliminaries for this tournament, he lost to Tomas Machachi (115th, Czech Republic) and missed the opportunity to participate, but was lucky to join the finals as a “lucky loser”. Among the finalists, Sebastian Koda (31st, USA) and Yoshihito Nishioka (33rd, Japan), who finished runner-up in the first round of the Adelaide International, did not participate due to injuries, and Kwon Soon-woo had an opportunity.
Kwon Soon-woo defeated Mahachi, whom he met again after a day in the first round of the tournament. And by defeating a strong player named Carreño Bustara, he was on the rise with his first consecutive win in the new year. This tournament is a warm-up event to be held prior to the first major tournament of the season, the Australian Open, which opens in Melbourne, Australia on the 16th.
Kwon Soon-woo recorded 1 win and 2 losses in the past against Carreño Busta. Kwon Soon-woo showed similar numbers to Carreño Busta in sub ace (11-10) and winner (33-33), but showed an advantage in errors with 15-18.
The next opponent is Michael Emmer (77th, Sweden), who gave himself a 0-2 (3-6 2-6) defeat in the round of 16 of the 2022 Adelaide International First Tournament.