A racket broken in his first game of service, another, a little later, which earned him a penalty point, then a double fault (his sixth of the match) to lose 6-4, 6-4 after 1h27 game: here is a summary of the defeat suffered Monday by Benoît Paire (32 years old, 61st ATP) in the first round of the ATP 500 tournament in Barcelona against the South Korean Soon-Woo Kwon (71st).
Since his short upturn in the Australian Open (third round, thanks in particular to a victory against Grigor Dimitrov), the ex-world No. 18 has only won once, in the first round of the Phoenix Challenger tournament. , against the American Emilio Nava (309th) in straight sets (7-5, 6-2). Benoît Paire has lost 17 of his last 20 matches.
