{"id":47594,"date":"2026-03-19T02:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47594"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:08:58","slug":"grigor-dimitrov-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47594","title":{"rendered":"Grigor Dimitrov,  1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47595 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5128-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This Bulgarian player (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grigor_Dimitrov\">1991<\/a>-; 2007, $31,727,833) now lives in Monte Carlo, after leading 5-3 in the third set, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=99780\">lost the match<\/a> in a tiebreak @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47208\">Miami Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of the very few players to play single-handed backhand, and won the 2017 Tour Finals that propelled him to world #3. Other notables are that he dated Maria Sharapova from late 2012 to the end of 2015,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Bulgarian player (1991-; 2007, $31,727,833) now lives in Monte Carlo, after leading 5-3 in the third set, lost the match in a tiebreak @ Miami Open. He&#8217;s one of the very few players to play single-handed backhand, and won the 2017 Tour Finals that propelled him to world #3. Other notables are that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}