Grigor Dimitrov played a great match and qualified for the third round of the Masters tournament in the French capital Paris with a prize fund of 7.6 million euros. The Bulgarian defeated 6:3, 6:7(4), 7:6(2) #3 in the world ranking Daniil Medvedev (Russia). The match lasted 2 hours and 56 minutes. This is Dimitrov's sixth win over a top 10 player this year.
With this success, Dimitrov earned 90 points for the world ranking, and for a place in the quarterfinals he will play against #33 in the world Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan.
Dimitrov had a great start to the match against Medvedev and took a 3-0 lead. The Russian returned the break for 2:3, but Grigor responded immediately with a rebreak. Until the end of the set, Dimitrov served flawlessly and won 6:3.
Medvedev broke first in the second part for 4:2 and served to win the set at 5:3. With this result, Dimitrov led with 40-15 and scored from his first opportunity. After that, Grigor saved two set points on his own serve and equalized at 5:5. This unnerved the Russian, who drew the ire of the fans, who started booing him. Medvedev, on the other hand, refused to serve and the judge had to officially warn him, as well as Grigor himself to call on him to stop with the scenes. In the end, Medvedev, who demonstratively sat down three times, resumed the game. He took his service game for 6:5, and then reached three consecutive set points on Dimitrov's serve. The Bulgarian managed to repel them, and then saved another set point to reach a tiebreak. In it, Medvedev won with 7-4 points and tied the sets.
Dimitrov broke first in the third set for 4:2, and then consolidated for 5:2 on his own serve. At 5:3, Grigor served to win the match, but missed four match points and was broken. At 6:5, Dimitrov missed two more match points, but this time on Medvedev's serve. This led to a decisive tiebreak in the match. In it, Dimitrov led 5-0 and won with 7:2 points. /BGNES
