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By Chris Oddo | Thursday, June 17, 2015

 
Gilles Muller, Queen's Club 2015

Gilles Muller put an abrupt end to Grigor Dimitrov's title defense at the Queen's Club with a straight-sets upset.

Grigor Dimitrov’s title defense ended on a sunny afternoon in London, as the hard and efficient serving of Gilles Muller darkened the Bulgarian’s day. With very little between the two players, Muller played the big points better and came away with the 6-4, 7-6(4) upset.

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The victory was Muller’s second of the year against Dimitrov, both in straight sets, and it marks a full year that Dimitrov has now gone without reaching a final. The 24-year-old won in Queen’s last season, saving a match point in the final against Feliciano Lopez, and went on to reach the Wimbledon semifinals. But in 2015 he has regressed. He fell to 19-12 on the season with today’s loss, with only two semifinals achieved thus far in 2015.

After saving three break points early in the first set, Muller took advantage of some nerves from Dimitrov to capture the opener with a break in the tenth game. After a double-fault gave him two break points, Muller outlasted Dimitrov in a tentative rally to claim the set.

There were no breaks of serve in the second set (Muller dropped only one first-serve point in it), and it looked as though Dimitrov was set to take it to a decider, but he coughed up a 3-0 lead in the second-set breaker and was sent scrambling for the exit when Muller cranked a forehand winner on his second match point.

In his sixth career appearance at Queen’s Club, Muller has moved past the second-round for the first time. He’ll face either Andy Murray or Fernando Verdasco in the quarterfinals.

 

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