By Richard Pagliaro | 12 August 2025
Photo Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty
Grigor Dimitrov’s The glorious belt of Grand Slam has ended.
The 34-year-old Dimitrov was officially withdrawn from the SH.BA Open Sot, Usta reported.
Dimitrov has withdrawn from the meadows of Flushing’s meadows as he continues recovery from a partial rupture of his pectoral muscles he suffered while leading world no.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.
Alejandro Tabilo replaces Dimitrov in the US open lottery with Brandon Holt, becoming the first major from the main draw.
Dimitrov’s manager, Georgi Stoimenov, confirmed his client’s withdrawal from US Open two weeks ago in comments 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.
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The 21st rank Dimitrov, 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 Tifoe.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmh6_c3Qyc00
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.
