Grigor Dimitrov has always been defined by the talent he has not fulfilled. The nickname \u2018Baby Fed\u2019 that he has spent so many years trying to shed reflects that. Where the great Roger Federer won just about all there is to win, the Bulgarian will end his career with a far more modest collection of titles. That, of course, has not been for the want of trying. Because whilst Grigor Dimitrov likely won\u2019t live up to the expectations that his supreme talent as a teenager created, it isn\u2019t really a lack of talent that let him down. Rather, it is a lack of luck.<\/p>\n
On some level, he has been unlucky from the very start in following so closely in the footsteps of Federer. He has been unlucky too to straddle the era of the Big Three and the apparently emerging era of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s duopoly. But most of all, he has been unlucky that his body has never truly been able to withstand the demands that tennis at the very highest level has placed on it.<\/p>\n