Grigor Dimitrov tops Sam Riffice 6-1 7-6(3) 6-3 in the 1st round in New York on Monday. Dimitrov will play against Alexei Popyrin in the 2nd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes. His most significant achievement in this tournament was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Dimitrov added to his prize money $ 40,000 after winning this match. He has won already $ 115,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Grigor will add $ 65,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 180,000 in total.
Highlights Grigor Dimitrov vs. Sam Riffice U.S. Open – New York
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Dimitrov scored 105 points vs. Sam’s 73.
Dimitrov
Dimitrov served pretty well to win 90% of the points (43/48) behind his first serve, and he won 59% points (20/34) on his second serve. Dimitrov struck 14 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Grigor won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities.
Riffice
On the other side, Riffice was exceptional in converting the only break point that he converted. However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Dimitrov and Riffice is 1-0 for Grigor.
Draw and next match H2H: Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alexei Popyrin – stats
Dimitrov will compete against Popyrin in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Grigor Dimitrov and Alexei Popyrin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Dimitrov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Dimitrov won 6-4 6-75 6-3 in the 3rd round in Melbourne back in February 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Dimitrov had a strong start of this set after breaking Sam Riffice in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Grigor managed to boost his lead after breaking the American in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Dimitrov was unerring in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-0 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 40-A). On the other side, Dimitrov didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 41 points. Grigor was the winner of the set after clinching 13 points more than the American (27-14). Grigor lost 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, Sam conceded 11 points on serve (9-11).
Grigor won the set after he broke the American in the 3rd (2-1) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Anyhow, Grigor didn’t lose the lead to finally clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 3.
Sam lost the 3rd game (2-1) when he had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.
Tiebreak
Dimitrov won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point.
The Bulgarian won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Dimitrov converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40). On the other side, the American was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4th game (1-2 30-40).
They contested 84 points. Dimitrov won 10 points more than the American (47-37). Grigor lost 8 points on serve (26-8). on the other side of the net, the American conceded 21 points on serve (29-21).
Dimitrov started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Sam Riffice in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was the key and it was sufficient for Dimitrov to win the set (6-3) as there were no other breaks.
They contested 52 points. The Bulgarian conquered the set after winning 10 points more than Sam (31-21). The Bulgarian surrendered 6 points on serve (19-6). In addition, on the other side, Riffice conceded 12 points on serve (15-12).
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