By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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A torn pector muscle was chopped Grigor Dimitrov’s Wimbledon Dream – and ended his 2025 US Open before starting.
The 34-year-old Dimitrov was withdrawn from the SH.BA Open while continuing healing from a partial rupture of his pectoral muscles he suffered while leading world no. Jannik Sinner 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 in Wimbledon round of 16.
Dimitrov’s manager, Georgi Stoimenov, confirmed his client’s withdrawal from Flushing Major’s meadows Bulgarian website brown tennis.
The withdrawal ended Dimitrov’s magnificent leadership of the 58 successive appearances of Grand Slam dating from Australian Open 2011. Dimitrov held the longest strip of successive clashes played between active men and fifth longest in the history of the open era. Director of open tournament Mutua Madrid and friend Dimitrov Feliciano Lopez owns the longest belt with 79 successive Grand Slams clashes. This belt ended in 2022.
Dimitrov of the 20th Rang, who won the 2008 Wimbledon boys’ championships and the US Open Boys in a row, reached the Flushing Meadows quarterfinals last year, leaning on Frances Tiefoe.
A US Open 2019 semifinalist Dimitrov has contested the semifinals into three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, including Wimbledon and Australian Open 2014 2014.
In a classic collision vs of Clay Rafael Nadal, Dimitrov pushed Nadal to five groups in an open Australian Marathon match 2017.
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Pushed on the eve of a four-hour pulsating collision, 56-minute, Nadal fought a dynamic dimitrov, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-4, to reach his 24th Grand Slam final in Melbourne.
