Roland-Garros: Dimitrov sees off tricky Bergs to make fourth round
Grigor Dimitrov edged out Zizou Bergs 6-3, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday evening. He’ll play Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 8 seed, in the next round
Grigor Dimitrov, Rome 2024
Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 10 seed, edged out Belgian qualifier Zizou Bergs 6-3, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4 to move into the last 16 of Roland-Garros in Paris on Saturday evening.
Dimitrov, ranked No 10, will face Pole Hubert Hurkacz, the No 8 seed, next.
Ahead of his victory, the 33-year-old Bulgarian beat American Aleksandar Kovacevic (6-4, 6-3, 6-4) and Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (6-0, 6-3, 6-4).
Bergs, ranked No 104, won against Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, the No 24 seed (3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2) and German Maximilian Marterer (3-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3) in the previous rounds of the Roland-Garros 2024.
Paris (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 53.478.000, most recent results first):
- Novak Djokovic vs. Lorenzo Musetti
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Casper Ruud: saturday
- Taylor Fritz vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis: saturday
- Holger Rune (13) beat Jozef Kovalik (LL): 7-5, 6-1, 7-6 (2)
- Francisco Cerundolo (23) beat Tommy Paul (14): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
- Hubert Hurkacz beat Denis Shapovalov: 6-3, 7-6, 4-6, 6-1
- Alexander Zverev (4) beat Tallon Griekspoor (26): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (3)
- Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Tomas Machac: 7-6 (4), 7-5, 1-6, 6-4
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (21) beat Ben Shelton (15): 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
- Alex De Minaur (11) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
- Corentin Moutet beat Sebastian Ofner: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1
- Carlos Alcaraz (3) beat Sebastian Korda (27): 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (9) beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
- Jannik Sinner (2) beat Pavel Kotov: 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
- Matteo Arnaldi beat Andrey Rublev (6): 7-6 (6), 6-2, 6-4
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