Dimitrov completes quarter-final line-up in Monte-Carlo

Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov completed the quarter-final line-up at the Monte-Carlo Masters on Thursday after he beat Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 at the Monte-Carlo Country Club.

Tabilo had beaten Novak Djokovic in the previous round but world No 18 Dimitrov had too much nous for him as he won through to a meeting with Australian Alex de Minaur, the No 8 seed.

It’s Dimitrov’s fifth time in the last eight in Monte-Carlo and his second Masters 1000 quarter-final of the year to date.

The 33-year-old Bulgarian defeated Chilean Nicolas Jarry (6-3, 6-4) and Monégasque wildcard Valentin Vacherot (4-6, 6-3, 6-1) in the previous rounds of the Monte-Carlo tournament.

Earlier in the tournament, Tabilo, ranked No 32, edged out Swiss wildcard Stan Wawrinka (1-6, 7-5, 7-5) and beat Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, the No 3 seed (6-3, 6-4).

Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, other last 16 results (Monte-Carlo Country Club, clay, EUR 6.128.940, most recent results first):

• Stefanos Tsitsipas (6) beat Nuno Borges: 6-1, 6-1

• Alex De Minaur beat Daniil Medvedev (9): 6-2, 6-2
• Lorenzo Musetti (13) beat Matteo Berrettini: 6-3, 6-3
• Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Daniel Altmaier (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Alexei Popyrin beat Casper Ruud (4): 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
• Arthur Fils (12) beat Andrey Rublev (7): 6-2, 6-3
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Jack Draper (5): 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4