Grigor Dimitrov blitzes Dominic Thiem 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Paris on Thursday after playing a solid match to come up against Christian Garin in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Grigor conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Dimitrov in this set was much more effective than the Austrian and consequently he won 6-2 after breaking the Austrian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A crucial moment of the match was when Grigor won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Grigor scored 60 points vs. Thiem’s 41 points.
The Bulgarian served very well to win 88% of the points (28/32) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (10/16) on his second serve. The Bulgarian won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Dominic wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Dimitrov and Thiem is 3-2 for Grigor.
Highlights Grigor Dimitrov vs. Dominic Thiem BNP Paribas Masters – Paris
Dimitrov’s Interview
Next Match: Grigor Dimitrov vs. Christian Garin – stats
Dimitrov will fight against Garin in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Grigor Dimitrov and Christian Garin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Paris
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Kyle EdmundEdmund (7-67 6-1) – See score progression
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (2-6 6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Christian GarinGarin – Jeremy ChardyChardy (6-74 6-4 7-66) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Rafael NadalNadal (4-9) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-2) – See H2H details
- Christian GarinGarin – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-1) – See H2H details