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Bulgaria · born Haskovo, 1991 · one-handed backhand · Queen's champion 2014
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Best Wimbledon result, 2014
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Wimbledon runs to the fourth round or beyond
2014
Queen's Club champion, three tie-break final
2008
Wimbledon boys' singles champion
50
Grass-court wins, reached in Mallorca 2026
Born in Haskovo on 16 May 1991, Dimitrov was junior world No. 1 and won the Wimbledon and US Open boys' titles in 2008. In 2013 he became the first Bulgarian man to win an ATP title, in Stockholm, and in 2017 he won the ATP Finals, rising to a career-high No. 3, the best by a Bulgarian. He has nine ATP singles titles and reached the quarter-finals of all four majors and all nine Masters events. A torn pectoral muscle at Wimbledon in 2025 cost him the rest of that summer, and by spring 2026 he had dropped out of the top 100. On wildcards in 2026 he reached the Mallorca quarter-finals and the Wimbledon fourth round, where Arthur Fery beat him in a final-set tie-break.
| Wimbledon singles | Semi-final 2014: beat the defending champion Andy Murray in straight sets, lost to Novak Djokovic in four. Fourth round 2017, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 |
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| Grass titles | Queen's 2014: beat the top seed Stan Wawrinka in the semi-final and Feliciano López in a final of three tie-breaks, after saving a match point |
| Junior | Wimbledon boys' champion 2008 without dropping a set, beating Henri Kontinen in the final |
| Wimbledon 2026 | As a wildcard beat Dane Sweeny, the 15th seed Jakub MenÅ¡Ãk and Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3; lost to Arthur Fery 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (7-10), having been two sets to one up |
| Matches cut short | 2024: retired against Daniil Medvedev in the fourth round. 2025: led Jannik Sinner 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 in the fourth round when a torn pectoral muscle forced him to stop |
| Other grass events | Queen's semi-final 2017 and quarter-final 2023 as a qualifier; Eastbourne quarter-final 2011; Mallorca quarter-final 2026 |
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| 2014 | Men's singles | |
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"Having to withdraw from this match at Wimbledon was one of the most painful moments of my career."
The person behind the player.
Haskovo, 1990s
His father, Dimitar, was a volleyball champion and tennis coach, and his mother, Maria, a sports teacher and former volleyball player. She gave him his first racquet at three, and by five he was playing every day. Early in his career the likeness of his game to Roger Federer's earned him the nickname Baby Fed, which he spent years trying to shed.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2008 · Boys' singles
He played the whole tournament with a shoulder injury and still won it without dropping a set, beating Henri Kontinen of Finland in the final. The title put his name beside two earlier junior champions, Roger Federer and Stefan Edberg, and earned him a wildcard into the men's draw the next year. In September he added the US Open boys' title.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2009 · First round
On his major debut, with the wildcard he had earned as junior champion, he won the first set against Igor Kunitsyn and then hurt his knee. He tried to play on, lost the next ten games and retired. Over the years that followed he would set the Open Era record for retirements at the majors.
Source: WikipediaQueen's 2014 · Final
Seeded fourth, he was given a walkover in the quarter-finals and beat the top seed Stan Wawrinka in the semi-final. Against Feliciano López he lost the first set and saved a match point, then won in three tie-breaks. It was the first Queen's final decided that way and the longest in the event's history, and his first title on grass.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2025 · Fourth round
He led the world No. 1 Jannik Sinner 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 on Centre Court when, after serving an ace, he went down holding his right pectoral muscle. He left the court, came back in tears and could not continue. Sinner went straight to him and consoled him afterwards. "I don't take this as a win at all," Sinner said.
Source: ATP TourMallorca 2026
After a spring of early defeats and a first-round loss in French Open qualifying, he arrived in Mallorca ranked 164th and on a wildcard. He beat Marc Polmans and Abdullah Shelbayh to reach his first tour quarter-final since Wimbledon 2025, where Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the eventual champion, beat him 6-3, 6-3 in 73 minutes.
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