Just Stop Oil eco protesters live up to their idiocy by disrupting Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro’s match in Wimbledon. During the match between Shimabukuro Grigor Dimitrov, 68-year-old retired teacher Deborah Wilde and 66-year-old former musician Simon Milner-Edwards ran onto Court 18, flinging orange confetti, glitter, and jigsaw pieces on the grass.
Their protest came despite a massive security effort in SW19 seeking to prevent disruption, which caused play to be postponed as authorities picked up the pieces.
Play suspended on Court 18: Just Stop Oil protesters have covered a corner of the court in orange confetti.#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/PbJzWswooZ
— James Gray (@jamesgraysport) July 5, 2023
Grigor Dimitrov in 2023
Ranked no.24, Dimitrov played his last match on the 23rd of June when he surrendered to world no.1 Carlos Alcaraz 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in London (draw).
This season Dimitrov has managed to achieve a compiled 22-12 record. Grigor Dimitrov’s most significant achievement of the current year was getting to the final in Geneva.
Shimabukuro in Wimbledon, ranking, and results in 2023
LWWLWLWLLW Currently the world no.162 (career-high), Sho achieved a composed 28-14 record in 2023. Shimabukuro is now having a run in Wimbledon where he defeated the world no.115 Facundo Diaz Acosta 6-75 6-3 6-4, the world no.550 Toby Samuel 5-7 6-1 6-4 and the world no.180 Denis Kudla 6-4 6-4 6-4.
Sho Shimabukuro will fight against the world no.24 Grigor Dimitrov in the 1st round on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 18. In the past, they have never competed against each other up to now in top competitions.
Sho conquered 2 titles in 2023 in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Tunis Challenger. Shimabukuro was the finalist in M25 Tsukuba.
Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro have never played each other.
