Grigor Dimitrov grounds Rinky Hijikata 6-1 6-0 in the 2nd round in Montreal on Thursday after playing an impressive match to come up against Alexei Popyrin in the 3rd round. The match lasted just 55 minutes. His most significant achievement in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2014. Here you can see his history at this event.

Montreal
Dimitrov's Record

Grigor added to his prize money $ 42,405 after winning this match. He has already won $ 91,435 after this win. If he wins the next match, Grigor will add $ 79,505 to his earnings to get in total $ 170,940 in total.

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Dimitrov
Hijikata
6-1 6-0
0h:55
59
59
Total points
27
27
24
24
Winners
15
15
41%
41%
Ratio Winners
56%
56%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
0
0
0
0
Double Faults
5
5
78%
78%
1st in
52%
52%
86%
86%
1st won
58%
58%
24/28
24/28
1st won
15/26
15/26
63%
63%
2nd won
21%
21%
5/8
5/8
2nd won
5/24
5/24
-- Break Points --
5/10
5/10
Total
0/0
0/0
50%
50%
Won
0%
0%
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At the end of the match, Grigor scored 59 points vs. the Australian’s 27.

Dimitrov

Dimitrov served very well to win 86% of the points (24/28) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (5/8) on his second serve. The Bulgarian was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (5/10).

Hijikata

On the other side, Hijikata wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Dimitrov and Hijikata is 2-0 for Grigor.

Draw and next match H2H: Grigor Dimitrov vs. Alexei Popyrin – stats

Dimitrov will play Popyrin in the 3rd round.

This will be the 3rd time that Grigor Dimitrov and Alexei Popyrin play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Dimitrov and Popyrin (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
Dimitrov 6-1
DimitrovHijikata
6
1
0
15
15
15
15
30
30
30
40
30
40
40
A
40
40
40
A
40
40
40
40
A
40
40
A
40
40
40
40
A
40
40
A
40
DimitrovHijikata
6
1
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
30
40
30
40
40
A
40
DimitrovHijikata
5
1
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
30
40
30
40
40
A
40
DimitrovHijikata
4
1
15
0
30
0
40
0
40
15
DimitrovHijikata
3
1
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
30
40
30
DimitrovHijikata
2
1
15
0
30
0
40
0
DimitrovHijikata
1
1
15
0
15
15
15
30
15
40
30
40
DimitrovHijikata
1
0
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
30
40
30

The Bulgarian was too strong to drop only 1 game before breaking the Australian 2 times and win the set 6-1.

Hijikata was not able to offer any resistance in the last 6 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-1 to 6-1.

Grigor converted 25% of his break points (2/8). He had 8 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-1 30-40), the 6th (4-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (6-0 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Bulgarian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 61 points. Grigor won 15 more points than Hijikata (38-23). The Bulgarian dropped 6 points on serve (17-6). Regarding the other side of the net, Hijikata conceded 21 points on serve (17-21).

2nd Set -
Dimitrov 6-0
DimitrovHijikata
6
0
15
0
30
0
40
0
DimitrovHijikata
5
0
15
0
30
0
40
0
DimitrovHijikata
4
0
0
15
15
15
30
15
40
15
DimitrovHijikata
3
0
0
15
15
15
30
15
30
30
30
40
40
40
A
40
DimitrovHijikata
2
0
15
0
30
0
40
0

The Australian was unable to hold the serve for the entire set and Dimitrov won the set 6-0.

Dimitrov was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 3rd (2-0 40-A) and the 5th game (4-0

0-40). On the other side, the Bulgarian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 25 points. Dimitrov conquered the set after winning 17 more points than Rinky (21-4). Dimitrov was perfect on serve to drop barely 1 point during his serving games (12-1). On the losing side, the Australian conceded 9 points on serve (3-9).

1st
Dimitrov
Hijikata
6-1
6
1
5
1
4
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
2nd
Dimitrov
Hijikata
6-0
6
0
5
0
4
0
3
0
2
0
1
0

Tennis Scores in Montreal

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  • Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (6-2 6-75 6-1)
  • Andrey RublevRublev – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (7-63 6-2)
  • Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-1 6-0)
  • Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-5 7-5)
  • Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 6-2)
  • Casper RuudRuud – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-2 6-75 6-3)
  • Kei NishikoriNishikori – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-4 6-4)
  • Nuno BorgesBorges – Ugo HumbertHumbert (3-6 7-62 7-64)
  • Alexander ZverevZverev – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-1 6-1)
  • Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-4 1-6 6-2)
  • Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Ben SheltonShelton (6-4 7-64)
  • Jannik SinnerSinner – Borna CoricCoric (6-2 6-4)

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