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Dimitrov to conquer Djokovic too?

At first, Grigor Dimitrov was simply hopeful he’d reach the second week of Wimbledon. 

I would like to get into the second week – and why not go even further? I’m trying to embrace the moments here and have flashbacks to four years ago. Grass is a special place and it is great you can enjoy a couple of weeks per year on it," as was reported by Wimbledon.com.

Now he is the favourite to lift the Wimbledon title after vanquishing defending champion Andy Murray, according to top seed Novak Djokovic.

The Bulgarian Dimitrov dethroned the reigning All England Club king in a straight-sets quarter-final victory last  Wednesday to set up a meeting with 2011 winner, Djokovic.

World number two Djokovic edged through a five-set grind with Marin Cilic to secure his sixth semi-final at SW19.

The Serbian 27-year-old has missed just one grand slam semi-final in the last 17 -but still rates 11th seed Dimitrov as the man to beat at Wimbledon.

Dimitrov is not only in the second week, he’s deep into the week and one match away from a berth in Sunday’s final. But he still has one more match to win before that against last year’s runner-up, Novak Djokovic.

Djokovic overcame a five-set test against Marin Cilic by regrouping after losing Sets 3 and 4. Djokovic remained steady and confident — not to mention upright — despite spending a good chunk of this match skidding and slipping on the grass.

Djokovic has the historical edge (three matches to one) over Grigor Dimitrov. Djokovic won the last match in the French Open in straight sets. Prior to that, Dimitrov beat Djokovic in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 in Madrid. Both matches were in the round of 32. Now they’re in the round of four.

The other two matches they played were on hard court with both going to Djokovic.

Who will win out? The one with the experience and six majors? Or the upstart who won the junior event in 2008? 

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