30 year old Karatsev is currently ranked No. 63. Highest No. 14 on 7 February 2022. The two have met before, in the final of the 2022 Sydney Tennis Classic with Karatsev winning 6-3, 6-3 to lift his 3rd ATP Tour title. He hasn't achieved anything of significance since then apart from reaching the semi-finals of this year's Madrid Open defeating Alex de Minaur and Daniil Medvedev en route before losing to Jan-Lennard Struff, then reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open where he lost to Frances Tiafoe in four sets. In his first match here he defeated World No. 48 Matteo Arnaldi 6-7(5), 7-6(5), 6-2.
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I can find out very little about Mo other than that he's aged 23 and has a current ranking of No. 668 - career high No. 652 in August.
Zhuhai is BST + 7.
Amazon are not showing this tournament, which is a 250.
Zhuhai is BST + 7.
Amazon are not showing this tournament, which is a 250.
The two will meet for the 12th time in their careers with Andy leading their H2H 8-3. They haven't played since the final of Beijing in 2016.
Dimitrov, who is currently ranked No. 19, has been suffering from a back problem but came back from two sets down against Alex Molcan in round 1 in a topsy-turvy match which saw Dimitrov go on to take the 3rd and 4th sets comfortably, then go 2-5 down in the fifth only to storm back to take the tiebreak 9-7.
Dimitrov, who is currently ranked No. 19, has been suffering from a back problem but came back from two sets down against Alex Molcan in round 1 in a topsy-turvy match which saw Dimitrov go on to take the 3rd and 4th sets comfortably, then go 2-5 down in the fifth only to storm back to take the tiebreak 9-7.
24 year-old Moutet, who plays left-handed, is currently ranked No. 71 with a career high of No. 51 achieved in November 2022. He has won 6 ATP Challenger Tour titles.
He has only won 6 of his 19 matches this year and is currently on a four-match losing streak, including a straight sets first-round loss to Emil Ruusuvuori in Cincinnati. His best result on tour this season was a quarter-final appearance in Mallorca. He has a 6-5 record at Flushing Meadows, with three of those wins coming during his run to the second week last year where he entered the main draw as a lucky loser.
Moutet is a baseliner who doesn't have a particularly powerful serve or ground strokes but moves well round the court.
He has only won 6 of his 19 matches this year and is currently on a four-match losing streak, including a straight sets first-round loss to Emil Ruusuvuori in Cincinnati. His best result on tour this season was a quarter-final appearance in Mallorca. He has a 6-5 record at Flushing Meadows, with three of those wins coming during his run to the second week last year where he entered the main draw as a lucky loser.
Moutet is a baseliner who doesn't have a particularly powerful serve or ground strokes but moves well round the court.
Last year Andy, who is currently ranked World No. 36, made round 3 after defeating Francisco Cerundolo in straight sets and qualifier Emilio Nava in four, Andy having lost the first set 5-7 after 1 hr 25 mins of play. He was then defeated 6-4, 6-4, 6-7(1), 6-3 by Matteo Berrettini.
Sky now have the sole broadcasting rights so viewers in the UK who don't have it will have to depend on free live streams.
Sky now have the sole broadcasting rights so viewers in the UK who don't have it will have to depend on free live streams.
BOTH PLAYERS PULLED OUT BEFORE THE MATCH.