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Tennis: Grigor Dimitrov to play for second time at quarterfinals in Rome Masters

Grigor Dimitrov playing on red clay in Italian Open 2020
Photo: EPA/BGNES

In Rome, the best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov has qualigied for the second time in his career for the quarterfinals of the local tennis tournament of the Masters 1000 series.

On the red clay, the 15-seeded Bulgarian player took a victory against the the representative of the hosts, Jannick Sinner, who participated with a "wild card". Dimitrov won with 4:6, 6:4. 6:4 and is among the top eight players in the Eternal City for the first time since 2014, when he lost in the semifinals against Rafael Nadal.
Dimitrov's next opponent will be determined in the match between Denis Shapovalov (Canada) and Ugo Humbert (France).



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