Frances Tiafoe and Grigor Dimitrov will clash against each other in the 3^rd round of Wimbledon for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 12:30 pm on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.87
Grigor Dimitrov -> 1.93

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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Grigor Dimitrov

This will be the 4^th time that Frances Tiafoe and Grigor Dimitrov face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Dimitrov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.

The last time that they played each other, Tiafoe won 7-5 7-6(6) 6-7(1) 7-5 in the 4^th round in at the Australian Open back in 2019.

Frances Tiafoe

Frances Tiafoe

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Rank
18

High
10

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	33-27	21-13	5-6	4-5	3-3	0-0
2023	40-21	21-10	8-4	4-5	7-2	0-0
2022	35-25	19-11	8-6	5-5	3-3	0-0
2021	42-27	19-13	4-7	10-4	9-3	0-0
2020	19-15	7-9	6-3	6-3	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 10 (career-high), Tiafoe reached the 3^rd round after defeating Yibing Wu 7-6⁴ 6-3 6-4 and Dominic Stricker 7-6¹¹ 6-4 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Stricker (7-6¹¹ 6-4 6-2). During the match, Tiafoe scored 116 points vs Stricker’s 98. The American was very aggressive to blast 56 winners.

Regarding the service games, Tiafoe overpowered his opponent with 23 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Frances Tiafoe conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Tiafoe put 60% of his first serves in, winning 89% (56/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (19/42) on the 2nd serve. Francis broke Stricker 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Francis hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Tiafoe has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (331-222). 7-1 on grass in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Tiafoe has a composed 28-18 match record in the last years on grass.

His best result of the season was winning the title in Australia where he beat Lorenzo Musetti in the final 6-2 0-0 ret. and in Houston where he beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the final 7-6(1) 7-6(6) and in Stuttgart where he beat Jan-Lennard Struff in the final 4-6 7-6(1) 7-6(8).

The American has a compiled 30-10 win-loss record in 2023, 7-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Wimbledon

Tiafoe's Record

Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov

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Rank
10

High
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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	46-18	21-7	8-4	13-5	4-2	0-0
2023	43-21	16-10	10-5	10-4	7-2	0-0
2022	26-22	10-11	10-5	5-4	1-2	0-0
2021	24-18	18-10	3-5	2-2	1-1	0-0
2020	18-11	8-5	6-2	4-4	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 24, Dimitrov reached the 3^rd round after defeating Sho Shimabukuro 6-1 6-2 6-1 and Ilya Ivashka 6-3 6-4 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Dimitrov had a good straight sets win against Ivashka (6-3 6-4 6-4). During the match Dimitrov scored 111 points vs Ivashka’s 86. The Bulgarian was pretty aggressive to blast 49 winners.

About the serving games, Dimitrov recorded 11 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Grigor Dimitrov lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Dimitrov put 64% of his first serves in, winning 80% (49/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (16/35) on the 2nd serve. Grigor broke Ivashka 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Grigor hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Dimitrov’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Geneva.

Dimitrov has an overall 24-12 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014. See his history.

Wimbledon

Dimitrov's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Tiafoe and Dimitrov played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tiafoe and Dimitrov have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Tiafoe played 12 games more than Dimitrov. Francis scored 104 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Bulgarian recorded 78 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Tiafoe struck 37 aces (18.5 per match). Dimitrov managed to score 19 aces (9.5 per match). Tiafoe won 76% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Dimitrov won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

The American broke his opponents 9 times with a 53% conversion rate. Francis lost his serve 4 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. Dimitrov broke his opponents 12 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Bulgarian conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Frances
Tiafoe

2:3

Grigor
Dimitrov

Rank

18

High

10

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Rank

10

High

3

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

33 - 27

46 - 18

21-13

Hard

21-7

4-5

I Hard

13-5

5-6

Clay

8-4

3-3

Grass

4-2

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• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-3 7-6⁴ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Holger RuneRune – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-3 4-6 3-6 6-4 7-6⁸) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-6⁵ 7-6³ 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Laslo DjereDjere (6-4 7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-3 6-7⁶ 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Mikael YmerYmer (6-2 6-7² 7-6⁵ 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrey RublevRublev – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-7⁶ 7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (7-6⁴ 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-3 6-1 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Liam BroadyBroady (4-6 6-2 7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Quentin HalysHalys (3-6 6-2 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Guido PellaPella (7-6¹ 6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander BublikBublik – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-4 6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (0-5) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (2-1) – H2H and prediction

Tiafoe

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Dimitrov