Grigor Dimitrov and Alex De Minaur will face off in the 2^nd round of the National Bank Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on Court 9. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex De Minaur who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex De Minaur is the pick to win this match.
Alex De Minaur -> 1.50
Grigor Dimitrov -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alex De Minaur

This will be the 3^rd time that Grigor Dimitrov and Alex De Minaur square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, De Minaur won 7-6(4) 6-7(3) 6-4 in the semifinal in Antwerp back in 2020.

Highlights Alex De Minaur vs Grigor Dimitrov – Antwerp 24-October-2020

Grigor Dimitrov

Ranked no. 19, Dimitrov reached the 2^nd round after beating Alexis Galarneau 6-4 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Grigor had a good straight sets win against Galarneau (6-4 7-5). During the match, Dimitrov scored 68 points vs Galarneau’s 57. The Bulgarian was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about the service games, Dimitrov recorded 10 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Grigor Dimitrov was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (34/42) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Bulgarian broke Galarneau 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Dimitrov has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (319-191). 9-7 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Dimitrov has a composed 156-94 record in the last years on hard.

The Bulgarian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Melbourne and Carlo.

Dimitrov has a compiled 20-14 win-loss record in 2022, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Toronto

Alex De Minaur

Ranked no. 21, the Australian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Denis Shapovalov 7-5 7-6⁴.

In the 1^st round, Alex had a good straight sets win against Shapovalov (7-5 7-6⁴). During the match De Minaur scored 81 points vs Shapovalov’s 76. De Minaur was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about serving, De Minaur wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alex De Minaur lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, De Minaur put 61% of his first serves in, winning 80% (40/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Shapovalov twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title in in Atlanta where he beat Jenson Brooksby in the final 6-3 6-3.

The Australian has a compiled 33-17 win-loss record in 2022, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Toronto

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2021. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Dimitrov	De Minaur
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	25
Pts	68-57	81-76
Total Points	125	157
Winners	34	40
%Winners	50%	49%

Both Dimitrov and De Minaur played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Dimitrov and De Minaur have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Dimitrov played 3 games less than De Minaur. Dimitrov scored 34 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian managed to score 40 winners (49%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Dimitrov	De Minaur
Aces	10	0
Avg per match	10	0
1st in	42/58	50/82
%1st in	72%	61%
1st pts	34/42	40/50
%1st pts	81%	80%
2nd pts	9/16	16/32
%2nd pts	56%	50%

Dimitrov scored 10 aces . De Minaur didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Dimitrov won 81% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, De Minaur won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Dimitrov	De Minaur
Won	3	2
Converted	3/6	2/4
% Converted	50%	50%
Conceded	1	5
Saved	0	4
% Saved	0%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

Dimitrov broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Bulgarian dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Alex broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Alex conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Dimitrov
	R1 Galarneau	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	68-57	68-57
Total points	125	125
Winners	34	34
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	42/58	42/58
% 1st in	72%	72%
1st pts	34/42	34/42
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	9/16	9/16
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

De Minaur
	R1 Shapovalov	Total
Score	7-5 7-64
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	25
pts	81-76	81-76
Total points	157	157
Winners	40	40
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	50/82	50/82
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	40/50	40/50
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	16/32	16/32
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/4	2/4
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

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