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\n Dimtirov withdraws ahead of Medvedev clash in Paris<\/p>\n
Davidovich Fokina vs Cazaux moved to Court 1<\/p>\n
October 29, 2025<\/p>\n
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Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Grigor Dimitrov was scheduled to play Daniil Medvedev in Paris on Wednesday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Grigor Dimitrov<\/a>\u2019s return to action this week at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> was sweet, but sadly cut short when he withdrew from his second-round clash with Daniil Medvedev<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n The 34-year-old Bulgarian, who was sidelined for three months due to a pectoral injury, made a winning return on Monday against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a>. But, ahead of his 12th Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Medvedev (8-3 Medvedev), Dimitrov withdrew due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n In the fourth round at Wimbledon<\/a> in July, Dimitrov led then-World No. 1 Jannik Sinner<\/a> by two sets to love when he felt a sudden pain in his pectoral muscle and was forced to retire. It marked his fifth consecutive exit at a major through retirement.<\/p>\n The former No. 3 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, Dimitrov spent three months on the sidelines before his long-awaited return to Paris, where he reached the final in 2023. On Tuesday evening, he accompanied Nicolas Mahut<\/a> on the doubles court in the Frenchman\u2019s final match of his career.<\/p>\n However, Dimitrov was unable to return to singles action on Wednesday. Instead the match between Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> and Arthur Cazaux<\/a> has been upgraded from Court 2 to Court 1.<\/p>\n Into the third round in Paris for the first time since reaching the final in 2021, Medvedev will next face Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> or Lorenzo Sonego<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Dimtirov withdraws ahead of Medvedev clash in Paris Davidovich Fokina vs Cazaux moved to Court 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-232135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761746347_201_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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