Grigor Dimitrov victorious over David Goffin 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in Paris on Wednesday. Dimitrov will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Dominic Thiem in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Dimitrov clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, The Bulgarian broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
2nd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Grigor conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
The Bulgarian missed the opportunity to break Goffin in the 2nd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Grigor scored 67 points vs. Goffin’s 51 points.
The Bulgarian served very well to win 80% of the points (32/40) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (11/19) on his second serve. Grigor won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points since he converted only 30% (3/10). On the other side, the Belgian was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this contest, the head to head between Dimitrov and Goffin is 8-1 for Grigor.
Next Match: Grigor Dimitrov vs. Dominic Thiem – stats
Dimitrov will take on Thiem in the 3rd round.
This will be the 5th time that Grigor Dimitrov and Dominic Thiem square off. The head to head is 2-2 for Dimitrov and Thiem (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Dimitrov won 6-3 5-7 7-5 in the R in London Finals back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Paris
- Christian GarinGarin – John IsnerIsner (7-65 7-64) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – David GoffinGoffin (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Marin CilicCilic (7-63 7-65) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Fabio FogniniFognini (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-62 7-61) – See score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Milos RaonicRaonic (7-65 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-65 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Andreas SeppiSeppi (7-65 7-66) – See score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Rafael NadalNadal (3-18) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Kyle EdmundEdmund (4-1) – See H2H details
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Christian GarinGarin (3-1) – See H2H details
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Dominic ThiemThiem (2-2) – See H2H details
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (2-3) – See H2H details
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-0) – See H2H details
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-3) – See H2H details