Grigor Dimitrov wins against Aleksandar Vukic 6-2 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Brisbane on Wednesday. The match lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes. Grigor won this tournament twice in 2017 and 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Bulgarian added to his prize money $ 7,730 after winning this match. He has already won $ 18,685 after this win. If he wins the next match, Dimitrov will add $ 14,370 to his earnings to get in total $ 33,055 in total.
Highlights Grigor Dimitrov vs. Aleksandar Vukic Brisbane International – Brisbane
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Grigor scored 72 points vs. the Australian’s 55.
Dimitrov
The Bulgarian served pretty well to win 94% of the points (31/33) behind his first serve, and he won 65% points (13/20) on his second serve. Grigor blasted 12 aces and he committed 1 double fault. The Bulgarian won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 20% (2/10) of the procured opportunities.
Vukic
On the other side, Vukic wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Dimitrov and Vukic is 3-0 for Grigor.
Live score progression and stats
The Bulgarian in this set was in much better shape than the Australian and without too much hustling he won 6-2 after breaking Vukic in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Bulgarian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 0.
Dimitrov converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 6th (4-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Dimitrov didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 48 points. The Bulgarian won 18 points more than Aleksandar (33-15). The Bulgarian was perfect on serve to concede barely 1 point during his serving games (20-1). On the losing side, the Australian conceded 13 points on serve (14-13).
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, the Bulgarian won the breaker at 7-5.
Tiebreak
Dimitrov won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 7th (4-3), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Aleksandar won 2 minibreaks in the 5th (2-3) and 9th (4-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
They played 80 points. It’s worth to point out that, Grigor won this set even if he scored less points 4 than Vukic (38-42). Dimitrov dropped 9 points on serve (23-9). In addition, on the other side, Vukic conceded 15 points on serve (33-15).
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