{"id":495683,"date":"2025-09-28T04:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495683"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:34:06","slug":"grigor-dimitrov-extends-injury-break-withdraws-from-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/grigor-dimitrov-extends-injury-break-withdraws-from-shanghai-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Grigor Dimitrov extends injury break, withdraws from Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grigor Dimitrov\u2019s difficult 2025 season has taken another blow, as the Bulgarian has officially withdrawn from the Shanghai Masters while continuing to recover from the pectoral muscle injury he picked up at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 28, who recently parted ways with coach Jamie Delgado, has not played since his dramatic fourth-round clash on Centre Court against Jannik Sinner. Dimitrov led the world No. 1 by two sets and looked on the verge of one of his biggest wins ever before collapsing with a serious chest injury. He retired in tears, marking one of the most heartbreaking moments of his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A sight we never want to see.<\/p>\n<p>Grigor Dimitrov is forced to retire while leading two sets to love. Everyone at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> is wishing you a speedy recovery, Grigor \ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udc9c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qBwiMbq3e2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qBwiMbq3e2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1942313479584485784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although initial reports suggested a quicker recovery, Dimitrov has been forced to miss the entire hardcourt swing, including the US Open. That ended his streak of 58 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, dating back to 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Grigor Dimitrov\u2019s girlfriend, Eiza Gonzalez, shared a video of him 2 days after suffering that awful injury at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2 days after injury. Nothing stops him. Hardest worker I know. The most disciplined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Incredible. \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O6glgLeoz6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/O6glgLeoz6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1968001370814083212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He had hoped to return in Shanghai, where he has enjoyed success in the past, reaching the semi-finals two years ago after defeating Carlos Alcaraz before losing to Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grigor Dimitrov\u2019s difficult 2025 season has taken another blow, as the Bulgarian has officially withdrawn from the Shanghai Masters while continuing to recover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495684,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17570,21634,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[21636,18071,611],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The world No. 28 continues to recover from his peck injury and his 2025 season could be over","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495685,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495683\/revisions\/495685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495683"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495683"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}