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Kwon Soon-woo

クォン・スンウ　/　くぉん・すんう

Tennis player from South Korea

December 2, 1997 (age 28)　・　Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea

North Gyeongsang
tennis player

My Take

Kwon Soon-woo is the kind of player I instinctively root for. Reaching a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 52 out of Sangju, a regional Korean city with no real tennis pedigree, is a remarkable feat that gets too easily overlooked. In a sport dominated by European and South American academy systems, simply cracking the top 100 as an Asian singles player is hard, and he did it the slow way, grinding through Challenger and ITF events for years. Two ATP titles are no small reward for that patience. I'm always more moved by the self-made grinder than the prodigy, and he is firmly that.

Overview

Kwon Soon-woo (Korean: 권순우; born 2 December 1997) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 52 ranking by the ATP, achieved in November 2021 and a doubles ranking of world No. 224, attained in December 2022. Kwon has won two ATP, six ATP Challenger Tour and five ITF World Tennis Tour singles titles.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Kwon Soon-woo
Name (Japanese): クォン・スンウ
Reading: くぉん・すんう
Born: December 2, 1997 (age 28)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Ox
Origin: Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: 180 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: tennis player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/soonwookwon/
Xhttps://x.com/KwonSoonwoo1
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AC%8A%E9%A0%86%E5%AE%87

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