MOSCOW, June 4 Italian Jannik Sinner defeated Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals of the French Open tennis championship, which is taking place on the clay courts of Paris.
The match ended with a score of 6:2, 6:4, 7:6 (7:3) in favor of the Italian, seeded second, Dimitrov was seeded 10th. The tennis players spent 2 hours and 29 minutes on the court.
Sinner is 22 years old and is the current champion of the Australian Open. He reached the semi-finals of Roland Garros for the first time in his career, where he will face the winner of the match between Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (9th seed) and Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz (3).
After the ATP ranking update on June 10, Sinner will become the world's number one tennis player. For the first time in history, such an achievement will be achieved by an Italian. This became known after the current winner of the tournament, Serbian Novak Djokovic, withdrew from the quarter-finals of the tournament due to injury; he will not be able to defend 2000 ranking points.