Athletistic / Tennis. Russian Andrey Rublev and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov will face each other in the fourth round (1/8 finals) of the US Open
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Tennis. US Open. 1/8 finals. Rublev – Dimitrov. Live broadcast
On Sunday evening, September 1, Russian Andrei Rublev and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov will face each other in the fourth round (1/8 final) match of the US Open. Representatives of the top 10 ATP rankings will face each other. Rublev is currently ranked 6th and Dimitrov is ranked 9th.
In personal meetings, Andrey is leading with a score of 4:3. Moreover, in the last four face-to-face meetings, which took place between 2019 and 2023, the Russian won three times. As for the odds for today’s match, according to bookmakers, the chances of winning tennis players are almost equal. You can bet on Rublev’s victory with odds of 1.89, while Dimitrov’s success is estimated at 1.97 points.
The stakes in today’s match are the quarterfinals of the US Open, which the Russian has reached four times (2017, 2020, 2022, 2023) and the Bulgarian only once (2019). At the same time, Rublev did not go beyond the 1/4 finals of the Slams, but Dimitrov played in the semifinals. At the current tournament, the 26-year-old Russian won two matches with a score of 3:0, and in one match it took him five sets to win. As for Grigor, who is 7 years older than Andrey, he won all his matches with a score of 3:0. Both tennis players are currently in excellent playing form, so it is not surprising that, according to experts, their chances of success today are approximately the same.
Rublev and Dimitrov first met at the US Open in 2017. Then, in the second round of the tournament, the 19-year-old Russian created a real sensation by beating his opponent in three sets – 7:5, 7:6, 6:3. After that, Grigor won twice – at the Australian Open – 2018 (6:3, 4:6, 6:4, 6:4) and at the “five hundred” in Rotterdam in the same season (6:3, 6:4). Then Rublev regained the initiative by beating the Bulgarian in Beijing 2019 (6:2, 7:5) and in Indian Wells 2022 (7:5, 6:2). At the Vienna “five hundred” 2022, Dimitrov equalized the score in personal matches (6:3, 6:4), but a year later at the Shanghai Masters (in the 1/2 final) Andrey again took the lead. (7:6, 6:3). Thus, it is worth noting an interesting trend: in the confrontation between Rublev and Dimitrov, the tennis player who won the first set always won.
Tennis. US Open. 1/8 finals. Rublev – Dimitrov. Live broadcast
The live online broadcast of this match will start at SPORT.RU September 1, 19:10 Moscow time
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