NEW YORK — Three-time Grand Slam semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov withdrew from the US Open on Tuesday, just a little greater than a month after he tore a chest muscle and needed to give up enjoying towards Jannik Sinner at Wimbledon.
That exit from the All England Membership on July 7 — Dimitrov had taken the opening two units towards Sinner however bought harm within the third — marked the fifth consecutive Grand Slam event the place the 34-year-old Dimitrov failed to finish a match. It additionally occurred on the Australian Open in January and the French Open in Could, plus final 12 months’s Wimbledon and U.S. Open.
A 12 months in the past in New York, Dimitrov stopped whereas trailing 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 4-1 towards Frances Tiafoe within the quarterfinals.
Dimitrov was a semifinalist on the U.S. Open in 2019, on the Australian Open in 2017, and at Wimbledon in 2014.
His highest rating was No. 3; he’s at present No. 21.
With Dimitrov out of the sphere, Alejandro Tabilo will get a spot within the males’s singles bracket, which begins play on Aug. 24.
Brandon Holt is the subsequent participant who would transfer into the draw if one other man withdraws. Holt upset Taylor Fritz at Flushing Meadows in 2022 and his mom is two-time U.S. Open champion Tracy Austin.
