Grigor Dimitrov storms to 100th indoor win of career with victory over Stricker in Stockholm

Grigor Dimitrov has already struck a number of career milestones this year—40th Top 10 win, 100th clay-court win, 300th hard-court win—and in Stockholm on Friday he hit another one.

The world No. 10 recorded the 100th indoor win of his career, hitting the century mark with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Swiss lefty Dominic Stricker in the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 event.

Dimitrov, who was born in 1991, is the first man born in 1990 or later to record 100 career wins at indoor tournaments.

MOST INDOOR WINS, MEN BORN IN 1990 OR LATER (tour-level):
100: Grigor Dimitrov [born in 1991]
92: David Goffin [born in 1990]
91: Daniil Medvedev [born in 1996]
84: Andrey Rublev [born in 1997]
80: Alexander Zverev [born in 1997]
79: Milos Raonic [born in 1990]
78: Stefanos Tsitsipas [born in 1998]
70: Felix Auger-Aliassime [born in 2000]
69: Dominic Thiem [born in 1993]
68: Jannik Sinner [born in 2001]

Stricker pressed Dimitrov early on, holding break point in two of his first three service games—but after fighting off a break point serving at 3-all, 30-40, Dimitrov went into overdrive, winning seven games in a row to build a 6-3, 4-0 lead over the Swiss, and the two traded holds the rest of the way until it was all over.

Dimitrov, who won the first ATP title of his career in Stockholm 11 years ago, is now through to his fifth career semifinal at the indoor event—he not only won the title in 2013, he also reached two more finals in 2014 and 2017, and another semifinal in 2016.

Awaiting him in this year’s semifinals will be Tallon Griekspoor, who scored the equal-biggest win of his career earlier in the day over world No. 8 Casper Ruud, 7-5, 7-6 (5). The Dutchman beat a No. 8-ranked Hubert Hurkacz in Rotterdam earlier this year.

Dimitrov won the pair’s only previous meeting routinely in straight sets in the third round of the US Open this summer, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.