Dimitrov was playing fantastic tennis, running Sinner around the court and delivering booming serves. Dimitrov won the first set 6-3 and survived a hard-charging comeback attempt from the Italian in the second to take the set 7-5 and put the world No. 1 in a desperate position.

Jannik Sinner, the No. 1 player in the world, technically advanced in the Round of 16 at Wimbledon on Monday. But it was hardly a win to be proud of. Sinner, who lost to Carlos Alcaraz in the final of the French Open last month,

Sinner admitted his elbow was hindering his serve after that early fall and said: "Tomorrow we are going to check with MRI [scan] to see if there's something serious, and then we try to adjust it. It happened very early in the match, in the first game. It was quite an unfortunate fall.