# Kwon Soon-woo, Wimbledon Tennis Championships Men's Singles 1st Round Elimination

Djokovic wins first round… Head withdraws due to back injury.

Kwon Soon-woo (367th) was eliminated in the first round of the men's singles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships (total prize money of 50 million pounds, approximately 87.5 billion won).

On the second day of the tournament held at the All England Club in London, England on the 2nd (local time), Kwon Soon-woo lost 0-3 (1-6 4-6 4-6) to Holger Rune (15th, Denmark) in the first round of the men's singles.

Kwon Soon-woo, who was aiming for his first Wimbledon singles main draw in three years since advancing to the second round in 2021, will have to wait until next season.

Kwon Soon-woo was eliminated in the first round of the Australian Open and Wimbledon in this year's major tournaments, and advanced to the second round of the French Open.

Kwon Soon-woo had an advantage over Rune with two wins and two losses, but on this day, he gave up 16 service aces and was completely defeated without a single break point. **[토토사이트 추천](https://bsc.news/post/safe-totosite-ranking-top-15-major-safe-playground-2024)**

Kwon Soon-woo, who will also be competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, which opens at the end of this month, is scheduled to play in the Hamburg Open, an ATP Tour event that opens on the 15th.

The Hamburg Open is a clay court tournament, and is expected to help him adapt to the courts in preparation for the Paris Olympics.

Novak Djokovic (2nd, Serbia), who withdrew from the quarterfinals of the French Open last month due to a knee injury, got off to a smooth start by defeating Vit Kopriva (123rd, Czech Republic) 3-0 (6-1 6-2 6-2).

Djokovic went into surgery right after withdrawing from the French Open, and his participation in this tournament was uncertain.

If Djokovic wins this tournament, he will become the first man or woman to win a major singles title 25 times.

Currently, in addition to Djokovic, Margaret Court (retired, Australia) has won 24 major women's singles titles.

[Djokovic](https://www.nn.ru/user.php?user_id=1446647&page=blog&blog_id=3609499), who is aiming to reclaim his Wimbledon title after two years, will face Jacob Fearnley (ranked 277th, UK) in the second round.

Andy Murray (ranked 113th, UK), who won the tournament in 2013 and 2016, withdrew from his first-round match.

Murray, who was born in 1987 and is the same age as Djokovic, is expected to retire after the Paris Olympics at the end of this month, so this tournament is likely to be his farewell Wimbledon.

He had back surgery last month and has been preparing for this tournament, but he ended up not playing on the court for the first-round match.

Murray plans to play in the men's doubles with his brother Jamie.

In the women's singles, last year's champion Marketa Vondrošova (6th, Czech Republic) was eliminated in the first round.

Vondrošova lost to Jessica Bosas Maneiro (83rd, Spain) 0-2 (4-6 2-6).

This is the first time in 30 years that a previous year's Wimbledon women's singles champion was eliminated in the first round since Steffi Graf (Germany) in 1994.

This year's French Open champion [Iga Swiatek](https://zb3.org/outlookindia/going-to-the-paris-olympics-without-a-wild-card) (1st, Poland) defeated Sofia Kenin (49th, USA) 2-0 (6-3 6-4) to advance to the second round.

Swiatek's next opponent is Petra Martic (85th, Croatia).