Grigor Dimitrov Completes Frances Tiafoe Win At Wimbledon | ATP Tour | Tennis

Grigor Dimitrov maintained his stable Grand Slam kind for 2023 by closing out his rain-delayed third-round match with Tenth seed Frances Tiafoe at Wimbledon Sunday.

The World No. 24, who reached the semi-finals on the grass-court main in 2014, wrapped a 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 triumph in opposition to the Tenth-seeded Tiafoe. He outhit the American by 33 winners to 14, didn’t face a break level and transformed 5 from 9 of his personal en path to a formidable 99-minute win.

“He’s such a harmful participant, I knew I needed to be very targeted,” stated Dimitrov, who had led Tiafoe 6-2, 6-3, 1-2 in a single day in London. “He’s a participant that has quite a lot of flare across the courtroom. Nice serve, nice return, so I used to be simply taking care of my sport, to be trustworthy. The previous weeks have been superb weeks for me, out right here in England. I’m simply having fun with each single day.”

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Dimitrov has loved constant outcomes on the majors this yr, having additionally reached the third spherical of the Australian Open and the fourth spherical of Roland Garros. Nevertheless, the Bulgarian continues to be trying to snap a near-six-year title drought courting again to his triumph on the 2017 Nitto ATP Finalsa end result which noticed him end the yr at No. 3 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.

The 32-year-old arrived at The All England Membership excessive on confidence. In his most up-to-date three outings he reached the quarter-finals at Queen’s, the fourth spherical at Roland Garros and the ultimate in Geneva, the place he took out High 10 American Taylor Fritz within the semis. His subsequent problem at Wimbledon will likely be a maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head conflict in opposition to sixth seed Holger Rune.

“For me, I’m not any [external factors] proper now,” stated Dimitrov. “I’m simply specializing in my aspect of the online and taking care of my sport. I actually take pleasure in popping out right here and am actually having fun with taking part in in the intervening time rather a lot. I feel the older I get, the extra I take pleasure in it, which is attention-grabbing.

“It’s going to be a kind of matches,” added the Bulgarian, when requested about dealing with Rune for the primary time. “I’ve to take it like another match. In fact he’s younger, proficient and a really harmful participant, however so am I. Minus the younger half!”