Soon-Woo Kwon
Age: 27 (02/12/1997)
  • Brief details
    Height
    180
    Weight
    72
    Plays
    Right-Handed
    Career
    $3,068,246
    YTD
    $3,370
    Place of birth
    Sangju, South Korea
    • 497 Singles ranking
    • 1187 Doubles ranking
  • Overview
    ATP singles titles
    0-1
    67-73
    ATP doubles titles
    0-0
    7-15
    Prize money
    $3,370
    $3,068,246
    Prize money
    $0
    $3,068,246
    Titles
    0
    2
    Titles
    0
    0
  • Games
    Gwangju (Gwangju, South Korea)
    Dates:
    21/04/2025 – 27/04/2025
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Hard
    Prize fund:
    $100,000
    Rank:
    507
    Round of 32
    Jason Kubler
    307
    —
    Pts:
    0
    Busan (Busan, South Korea)
    Dates:
    14/04/2025 – 20/04/2025
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Hard
    Prize fund:
    $200,000
    Rank:
    534
    Round of 16
    Yasutaka Uchiyama
    224
    —
    Round of 32
    Antoine Escoffier
    217
    —
    Pts:
    8
    Davis Cup. Czech Republic vs South Korea. Qualification (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
    Dates:
    27/01/2025 – 01/02/2025
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Hard
    Prize fund:
    $0
    Rank:
    363
    Round Robin
    Tomas Machac
    25
    26 26
    Pts:
    0
    Davis Cup. Poland vs South Korea (Zielona Gora, Poland)
    Dates:
    09/09/2024 – 14/09/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Hard
    Prize fund:
    $0
    Rank:
    344
    Round Robin
    Kamil Majchrzak
    163
    75 76
    Pts:
    0
    US Open (New York, USA)
    Dates:
    26/08/2024 – 08/09/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Hard
    Prize fund:
    $33,977,000
    Rank:
    340
    Round of 128
    Alexei Popyrin
    28
    57 26 36
    Pts:
    10
    Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
    Dates:
    15/07/2024 – 21/07/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Clay
    Prize fund:
    €2,047,730
    Rank:
    349
    Round of 32
    Maximilian Marterer
    108
    46 76 57
    Pts:
    0
    Wimbledon (London, Great Britain)
    Dates:
    01/07/2024 – 14/07/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Grass
    Prize fund:
    £20,747,000
    Rank:
    367
    Round of 128
    Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune
    15
    16 46 46
    Pts:
    10
    Roland Garros (Paris, France)
    Dates:
    27/05/2024 – 09/06/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Clay
    Prize fund:
    €24,961,000
    Rank:
    494
    Round of 64
    Sebastian Korda
    28
    46 46 61 36
    Round of 128
    Emil Ruusuvuori
    67
    63 64 63
    Pts:
    50
    Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia)
    Dates:
    13/05/2024 – 18/05/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Clay
    Prize fund:
    $82,000
    Rank:
    0
    Qualification. Round 1
    Timofey Skatov
    0
    —
    Pts:
    0
    Busan (Busan, South Korea)
    Dates:
    08/04/2024 – 14/04/2024
    Category:
    ATP Finals
    Surface:
    Hard
    Prize fund:
    $164,000
    Rank:
    645
    Round of 4
    Seong Chan Hong
    201
    —
    Round of 8
    Lloyd Harris
    183
    —
    Round of 16
    Alibek Kachmazov
    259
    —
    Round of 32
    Mattia Bellucci
    180
    —
    Pts:
    35
  • Full description
    Personal

    Born in a small town, Sangju, famous for dried persimmons Began playing tennis at age 10 Father, Younghun, is a talented amateur tennis player; mother, Eunmi; sisters, Hakyung and Sookyung. Big sister, Hakyung, was 2015 Miss Korea (Gyeongbuk Province) Favourite surface is hard and favourite shots are down-the-line forehand and drop shot Likes eating chocolate, but only on court to give him energy. Spotted eating Kit Kats during a match at 2020 US Open Wanted to be a football player until he started playing tennis Moved to Seoul at age 16, where he went to high school with fellow ATP player Duckhee Lee Enjoys going to the karaoke to sing with friends on his days off

    Career

    Achieved career-high No. 52 after winning 1st ATP Tour title in 1st final at 2021 Astana (d. Duckworth)

    Added 2nd ATP Tour title at 2023 Adelaide-2 (d. Bautista Agut), becoming 1st Korean to win multiple titles and 1st LL to win a title since Cecchinato at 2018 Budapest

    Advanced to 2021 Eastbourne SF as LL by defeating Ivashka for 1st ATP Tour QF win in 8th attempt

    Defeated No. 13 Auger-Aliassime of eventual champion Canada for biggest win of career in 2022 Davis Cup Finals group match

    Went 35-14 at Challengers in 2019 with titles at Yokohama and Seoul, then captured 3rd Challenger title at 2021 Biella-2

    Played in Doha week of 20 February 2023 and was sidelined for 6 months with a shoulder injury before returning at US Open

  • Recent matches