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Grigor Dimitrov reaches the round of 16 at Miami Open

Grigor Dimitrov
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Grigor Dimitrov has qualified for the fourth round of the Masters tennis tournament in Miami (USA) with a prize fund of 8.9 million dollars. Bulgaria's top tennis player achieved a decisive victory over the 56-seed Yannick Hanfmann (Germany) with 6:1, 6:0 in only 46 minutes of play in one of his best matches of the season. 

Dimitrov reaches this stage of the tournament for the third time in his career after 2012 and 2016. 

The next opponent of the Bulgarian, who is No. 11 seed in the tournament, will be No. 8 seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland. He managed to prevail over American Sebastian Korda with 7:6(5), 6:7(5), 6:3 in a match that lasted two hours and 18 minutes.



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