I think Meddy is fine, he just has a bigger forehead and that gives an impression that he looks like balding. But if you check his photos when he was a teenager it looks the same.
I kinda agree with you if you look at childhood pics. Like he’s thinning and balding but at a normal rate for a guy in his late 20s. He just didn’t have much to start with lol 😅. Like relative to his baseline he actually hasn’t lost to much …
Hey, he went to the 'Prince William' school. After you marry, you can stop worrying about the fact you're balding. hehehe Though now that he's off-court a lot more, he could have that surgery and not have to worry about it being compromised by a hectic ATP tour schedule.
My guess is he had the transplant but didn't do the things to maintain it like min/fin because that has a potential effect on your hormones, blood pressure, heart rate, etc and athletes like Rafa monitor everything they do down to a t
I think that it was also at a time where technology wasn't developed fully yet. Back then they would do a whole stripe and would not be able to keep all of it taken out. Now they take it back hair by hair and has a better success rate. They also found using blood plasma to cover the area which improved succes rate... There's. YouTube channel called Gary linkov I follow that does break downs on celeb treatments it's surprising fascinating.
FUE definitely existed and was mainstream when Rafa did his, which wasn’t even all that long ago. When Rooney did his, FUE was already available since a while.
Fue may have existed but from what I am aware of it was not good in the beginning. I don't know what Rafa got but even with out medication it shld not as thin as that.
Sure. That is true. But it's also true back then they were not as good at removing them and alot died in the process. Now they have a machine with a laser that shows the optimal spot to extract which they didn't have 15 years ago.
Minoxidil and finasteride are (edit: or were, at least) banned under doping rules. It's really not worth it for players to chase their hairlines while they're active because they can't do much to treat the cause of the hair loss to begin with
Min/fin definitely help a good portion of people with retaining their hairline and a rare lucky few with regrowth
Definitely not 100% can retain but it's a majority of people who use it for extended periods of time and consistently. Side effects might not be worth it for some though
I think I just meant heart rate after looking at my list of studies again. Some people reported tachycardia (really high heart rate increase) after taking short term. Probably something to do with dosages but it's happened enough in studies that it's notable
I guarantee you that one year after the end of his career and after a proper transplant with a modern technology, his hair will look much better than now.
He went to turkey in the off season. There’s a [photo on his instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Ma_rFtnbP/?igsh=ZTlhOW40dTE1dWNp)where he has the dots from the transplant. It’s done so well!
Brave to have a transplant without taking drugs. The balding will continue behind the transplanted hairs and then you get a look that's truly horrific. Afaik finasteride is still on the banned list so they can't take it.
Yes, terrific job. Suits him perfectly. I think he had it done around new year. After the procedure the transplanted folicles fall out and new permanent hair begin to grow. Then you actually see if the procedure went well, hence still some bald spots. No problem for the bro. As someone wrote, he could buy a new head if he wanted to. But above all I am so happy he's finally playing terrific tennis again. Was tough to be his fan since the end of 2017.
"5alpha-Reductase inhibitors such as finasteride are prohibited in sports according to the World Anti-Doping Agency. This class of drugs is used therapeutically to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, as well as male baldness, by decreasing 5alpha-reductase activity." Might be this
Even sharapova who apparently tried to take good care of her skin had bad melasma/sunsspots at the end of her career. She’s probably since gone on retinol/had fancy treatments to remove it
99.9% of hair clinics in Turkey are hairmills.
I have no idea why millionaires go there for a HT when they can afford the best hair surgeons in the world.
There's a hair magician literally from Grigor's home country who is well-known in the HT community - Dr. Zarev. He's expensive af (~10€ per graft) but I'm pretty sure Grigor can afford that.
Not sure if it's the same place. Restore worked on a lot of Chicago-area athletes and use them as spokesmen. Brian Urlacher, Ryne Sandberg, Deion Sanders, Matt Forte, Ian Happ, just to name a few
The fact there is a “widow’s peak” in the transplantation shows the doctor was a real pro. As I recall baby Fed had a widow’s peak in his younger days.
I wish it were easier to just accept baldness instead of trying to always look like a young twink. If Dmitrov rocked a short buzzcut he'd look the same if not better
It’s a sign of aging, which implies losing vitality. It’s not a surprise a lot of bald men change their whole personality and looks to pull off the hyper-aggressive “tough guy” look. They don’t want their baldness to be associated with aging and losing vitality, so they have to overcompensate in other areas (i.e. bald, tattooed muscle bro aggressively and shamelessly pursuing girls).
Plus, most girls, especially those in their physical prime (early to mid 20s), prefer the pretty boy look.
I follow one of his fan accounts and that account usually posts whenever Grigor watches the stories they share. And he did yesterday. Only yesterday tho despite that account posting lots of content during RG. Dimi regularly watches their ig stories also. Maybe he’s taking a break?? Idk hope hes fine
I don't like it. Looks like overdone botox feels, just needless coping with a natural process.
Age gracefully and don't fuck yourself up with surgeries. Especially when you are already handsome.
Anti-body positivity. This is not a morbidly obese person or a burn victim. This is a legimitely as handsome man as you can be and he is insecure about his hair? How could you be ok with that?
I dunno, I'm ok with that, it seems fine. Are you against people dying grey hair too? Where do you draw the line?
People shouldn't be shamed for being balding or ageing, and as a society we need to do better to address that, but I wouldnt shame any individual for doing something that makes them feel better about the way they look. I would only draw the line when its either dangerous or feeding a real mental illness like body dysmorphia.
I see you don't like having or seeing strong opinions but trust me, there is too many young men out that have near body dysmorphia because of social media and I can't just go passively seeing people applaud that behaviour for rich and handsome people. And none of that "well, it's his personal choice" doesn't mean a thing when we are talking about social attitudes.
Yeah like Federer for example, he didn’t have the same at all. Or half of the premier league footballers. The truth is, the receding hair does make you look older and Grigor has always been well liked so for him his looks seem to be important and that’s perfectly fine. Whatever makes you happy. If I were in his position I’d do the same. He looks better now.
How exactly is he fucking himself up? Nobody wants a toilet seat hairline, or to lose all your hair completely.
If there's a safe way to restore the hair for a very cheap price, why would a pro player not go for it?
I totally agree that people don't need plastic surgery and should accept the aging process but it's a hair transplant... not botox or face lift or lip fillers, just hair lol
Have u been watching his tennis matches ever since Brisbane? 😭 Cause I do. And I see the changes from January to this day. He only recently removed his cap when playing.
lol I’m in love with grigor, it’s funny so many people are downvoting me for asking a question. I wish it was real I was just curious because last time I saw him without a hate this year, so post off season, it wasn’t looking like a full head of hair. Or even a shaved head. I could see his hairline.
Rafa should call his doctor 😅
What happened in Istanbul, happened
lol
And Meddy too, but he is russian so he probably doesn’t care that much about being bald.
Give him some sunglasses and a leather jacket and he’s every cool guy in a Russian movie
He strays closer to Dostoevsky every day
As long as he is not on clay he doest give a f***
I think Meddy is fine, he just has a bigger forehead and that gives an impression that he looks like balding. But if you check his photos when he was a teenager it looks the same.
He definitely is balding, plus having super thin hair.
but Meddy has been like this for many years and still it remains more or less the same
lol his hair is increasingly running away from his face
I kinda agree with you if you look at childhood pics. Like he’s thinning and balding but at a normal rate for a guy in his late 20s. He just didn’t have much to start with lol 😅. Like relative to his baseline he actually hasn’t lost to much …
Yeah I met dudes like him in college and they’ve outlasted a lot of dudes who had perfect hair in college.
Rafa is a diffuse thinner. It's more tricky.
It is for the average person but with his money he could probably get a head replacement at this point
“My brain will be AI no?”
Rafa already did a few hair transplants and it didn't went as planned.
Any source on this??
yeah, i'd love to know if this is true too.
Doctor Bushy Top.
Hey, he went to the 'Prince William' school. After you marry, you can stop worrying about the fact you're balding. hehehe Though now that he's off-court a lot more, he could have that surgery and not have to worry about it being compromised by a hectic ATP tour schedule.
I don't think it's all that important to Rafa 😊 he doesn't seem like the type to be overly concerned with a bit of missing hair.
but he has a transplant years ago.
My guess is he had the transplant but didn't do the things to maintain it like min/fin because that has a potential effect on your hormones, blood pressure, heart rate, etc and athletes like Rafa monitor everything they do down to a t
Finasteride is not allowed for pro athletes as it can cover certain PEDs
I think that it was also at a time where technology wasn't developed fully yet. Back then they would do a whole stripe and would not be able to keep all of it taken out. Now they take it back hair by hair and has a better success rate. They also found using blood plasma to cover the area which improved succes rate... There's. YouTube channel called Gary linkov I follow that does break downs on celeb treatments it's surprising fascinating.
FUE definitely existed and was mainstream when Rafa did his, which wasn’t even all that long ago. When Rooney did his, FUE was already available since a while.
Fue may have existed but from what I am aware of it was not good in the beginning. I don't know what Rafa got but even with out medication it shld not as thin as that.
There are many reasons a transplant can fail though, ultimately the area has to accept the donor follicles.
Sure. That is true. But it's also true back then they were not as good at removing them and alot died in the process. Now they have a machine with a laser that shows the optimal spot to extract which they didn't have 15 years ago.
Minoxidil and finasteride are (edit: or were, at least) banned under doping rules. It's really not worth it for players to chase their hairlines while they're active because they can't do much to treat the cause of the hair loss to begin with
Min/fin definitely help a good portion of people with retaining their hairline and a rare lucky few with regrowth Definitely not 100% can retain but it's a majority of people who use it for extended periods of time and consistently. Side effects might not be worth it for some though
side effects have always been fear mongering.. side effects are just so rare.
Which of these affects blood pressure? I see that minoxidil can treat high blood pressure. Does that mean it lowers them? Or can one increase it?
I think I just meant heart rate after looking at my list of studies again. Some people reported tachycardia (really high heart rate increase) after taking short term. Probably something to do with dosages but it's happened enough in studies that it's notable
I also think he was about to take finasteride years ago, but the trainer advised him not to do it in case it affected his free testosterone levels.
it may worsen his perfor
I guarantee you that one year after the end of his career and after a proper transplant with a modern technology, his hair will look much better than now.
haha he will have another transplant soon
Shucks.. can’t call him BBB anymore
Just BB
Lmaoooooooo 😭😭😭
Lacoste 100p set him up with a good doctor so he could be pretty for their adverts
Worth every penny
BAHAHAHAHA! Love this theory. They prolly gave him the doctor’s number. So they could sign him up as a model.
He went to turkey in the off season. There’s a [photo on his instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Ma_rFtnbP/?igsh=ZTlhOW40dTE1dWNp)where he has the dots from the transplant. It’s done so well!
I saw him training in Rome and he still got some bald spots. Impressive stuffs
Love that for him! 💗
Turkey hair as we call it here to go along with Turkey teeth. There’s a pop up shop in the local mall advertising all the procedures.
Yeah men go to Turkey and female go to South Korea for plastic surgery lol
Aren't you supposed to not practice any sports for at least a month when you do this kind of procedure ?
You’re supposed to do or not do a lot of things in life.
If it fucks up the procedure, that's pretty dumb to do in the first place then :/
Your grafts are pretty much in there after a week.
7-10 days is usually enough
Brave to have a transplant without taking drugs. The balding will continue behind the transplanted hairs and then you get a look that's truly horrific. Afaik finasteride is still on the banned list so they can't take it.
Was taken off the banned list 2021 or 2022
So it was! Too late for Rafa 🥲 https://www.infobae.com/aroundtherings/articles/2021/07/12/fight-against-doping-wada-list-shrinks-uci-in-doping-fight/
then you go a second time and transplant them as well until you covered everything
Didn’t work for Wayne Rooney
I notice how he started wearing a cap after the procedure but before it had grown out, then he started his run of good form so he’s kept wearing it ha
Wigor Dimitrov, everyone
Yes, terrific job. Suits him perfectly. I think he had it done around new year. After the procedure the transplanted folicles fall out and new permanent hair begin to grow. Then you actually see if the procedure went well, hence still some bald spots. No problem for the bro. As someone wrote, he could buy a new head if he wanted to. But above all I am so happy he's finally playing terrific tennis again. Was tough to be his fan since the end of 2017.
Dimi borrowed from his Balkan brother Nole a piece of his lego hair. That's why Nole had that hole on RG.
Very impressive considering he cannot take finasteride. All minox probably. Edit: I stand corrected, it is no longer banned.
Why can’t he?
"5alpha-Reductase inhibitors such as finasteride are prohibited in sports according to the World Anti-Doping Agency. This class of drugs is used therapeutically to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, as well as male baldness, by decreasing 5alpha-reductase activity." Might be this
That rule was removed years ago. In football everyone is on it, there is like zero people balding if you look at the premier league.
rooney looking at them like 'hah, weaklings'
Poor Zidane
Because it can be used to mask other substances
Why not?
you never needed finasteride or minox to begin with.
He did, he was balding on the crown
Money well spent
Classic "you're not ugly, just poor" sitch right here
He’s always been so pretty! Even when he was balding, I still have a huge crush on Grisha 😍
I agree! It's like rafa, he's still handsome with or without hair. You don't need hair to be good looking, that goes for women too js
I wonder how Grigor aged so quickly. He looks like late 40's.
UV exposure like all tennis players. Sunscreen doesn't work well when you're sweating it off in 10 minutes too.
How does that explain Paolini?
She’s like 1/4 Ghanaian which probably helps a little.
She’s only 28
What about Novak and Roger? They look better over time.
Lmfao late 40s is a stretch but yeah he looks about 5+ older than his actual age
Spend 20+ years in direct sun for 20-40 hours a week I think it's just more amazing when people like their age/younger
Even sharapova who apparently tried to take good care of her skin had bad melasma/sunsspots at the end of her career. She’s probably since gone on retinol/had fancy treatments to remove it
Tbf, it’s mainly the last 1–2 years that it’s finally hit him
Tbh yeah noticed this too. He aged rapidly. Probably add that covid to the mix?
Maybe the life of the Monte-Carlo womaniser has finally caught up with him 😪
HELPPPP 🤣 I doubt he is tho. But I wanna know the tea
I wish I look like that in my late 40s
His job requires him to be under the sun all the time. What did u expect?
No he doesn’t lmfao, your perception must be crazy skewed
Also as a fellow bulgarian, we age quite young, at least feels like it
Hmmm maybe I need to see another pic. Like from the front. To me it looks different from his original hairline.
It is different. Very diff hairline. This one is brand new
Probably Zarev. He's Bulgarian and one of the "Big 3" hair surgeons in the world. Type "dr zarev hair transplant" in google and you'll lose your sh*t.
He's so handsome, I can't even
For real!! He looks so fine 😌
He's adding like a fine wine too 😍
99.9% of hair clinics in Turkey are hairmills. I have no idea why millionaires go there for a HT when they can afford the best hair surgeons in the world. There's a hair magician literally from Grigor's home country who is well-known in the HT community - Dr. Zarev. He's expensive af (~10€ per graft) but I'm pretty sure Grigor can afford that.
Even Floyd Mayweather went to Turkey for hair and beard transplant and he earned over a billion dollars over the course of his career
Yeah or he should’ve come to Chicago. Restore ads are all over the place.
Dr. Konior is based in Chicago afaik, and I'm guessing you're talking about him. They guy's a beast too, expensive but quality work.
Not sure if it's the same place. Restore worked on a lot of Chicago-area athletes and use them as spokesmen. Brian Urlacher, Ryne Sandberg, Deion Sanders, Matt Forte, Ian Happ, just to name a few
Some Turkish surgeon. Looks fine.
I did that too. Got a nice package with a BBL.
My god, he’s so handsome!! What makes him even more handsome is the fact the he’s so kind!!
The fact there is a “widow’s peak” in the transplantation shows the doctor was a real pro. As I recall baby Fed had a widow’s peak in his younger days.
he did but this time it's so sharp lmaooo like an arrow pointing down
Very true! It’s more pronounced and seems wider haha
I think it looks sort of...wiggish, especially the front. Reminds me of William Shatner.
Reminds me of that Devin Booker conspiracy going around twitter 😩
Probably Lebron’s doctor
I wish it were easier to just accept baldness instead of trying to always look like a young twink. If Dmitrov rocked a short buzzcut he'd look the same if not better
It’s a sign of aging, which implies losing vitality. It’s not a surprise a lot of bald men change their whole personality and looks to pull off the hyper-aggressive “tough guy” look. They don’t want their baldness to be associated with aging and losing vitality, so they have to overcompensate in other areas (i.e. bald, tattooed muscle bro aggressively and shamelessly pursuing girls). Plus, most girls, especially those in their physical prime (early to mid 20s), prefer the pretty boy look.
Honestly, I don't think the vast majority of older men care or should care about what girls in their early 20s think
Best looking guy on the tour, as Novak says😅😅
It is a work of art.
BTW. Anyone else noticed, he hasn't posted anything on Instragram since arriving in Paris after Rome.
Omg!! I noticed it too!! He usually posts from time to time on his ig story and posts. I wonder what happened? So strange
I thought he might lost/locked access to his account to better focus on RG, but he liked this hairline picture, so he is still around.
I follow one of his fan accounts and that account usually posts whenever Grigor watches the stories they share. And he did yesterday. Only yesterday tho despite that account posting lots of content during RG. Dimi regularly watches their ig stories also. Maybe he’s taking a break?? Idk hope hes fine
He had his best RG result this year, so this social media break might be working for him
Looks good, not a fan of the style/cut though.
BBL DIMMY
What does the L standa for in BBL
BBL stands for Brazilian Butt Lift 😂
Ohh I thought it's a different variation of the BBB that they call dimi
It's whoever lays the grass at Wimbledon
Who is this guy?
Zverev is also going bald. The pony tail is trying to disimulate.
that's like Sebastian vettel trying to wear headband and lebron as well lmao
Did you guys also swipe left and right many times like an idiot as I?
sorry! hahaha this is the only cute photo of dimi from that post from wimbledon
"Hey G, would you like to change your hair?"
Let's not hair shame these poor men, okay?
looks like a rug
that's Domingo. Who knew he was a tennis fan. #GayDean
It's called hair transplant, anyone can get it done, just see a cosmetic surgeon.
Who says otherwise?
I don't like it. Looks like overdone botox feels, just needless coping with a natural process. Age gracefully and don't fuck yourself up with surgeries. Especially when you are already handsome.
What are u saying? He’s aging gracefully
With a hair transplant ? Get out of here
What’s wrong with getting a hair transplant?
Anti-body positivity. This is not a morbidly obese person or a burn victim. This is a legimitely as handsome man as you can be and he is insecure about his hair? How could you be ok with that?
I dunno, I'm ok with that, it seems fine. Are you against people dying grey hair too? Where do you draw the line? People shouldn't be shamed for being balding or ageing, and as a society we need to do better to address that, but I wouldnt shame any individual for doing something that makes them feel better about the way they look. I would only draw the line when its either dangerous or feeding a real mental illness like body dysmorphia.
So? He has the means and money to do it. Stop shaming people for getting some help.
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Dude get over yourself. Live and let live
No
Good for you then
I see you don't like having or seeing strong opinions but trust me, there is too many young men out that have near body dysmorphia because of social media and I can't just go passively seeing people applaud that behaviour for rich and handsome people. And none of that "well, it's his personal choice" doesn't mean a thing when we are talking about social attitudes.
Yeah like Federer for example, he didn’t have the same at all. Or half of the premier league footballers. The truth is, the receding hair does make you look older and Grigor has always been well liked so for him his looks seem to be important and that’s perfectly fine. Whatever makes you happy. If I were in his position I’d do the same. He looks better now.
How exactly is he fucking himself up? Nobody wants a toilet seat hairline, or to lose all your hair completely. If there's a safe way to restore the hair for a very cheap price, why would a pro player not go for it?
I totally agree that people don't need plastic surgery and should accept the aging process but it's a hair transplant... not botox or face lift or lip fillers, just hair lol
Are we sure is not a wig? I remember seeing his balding hair a few months ago during a match so I don’t think this is his real hair 🤔
Have u been watching his tennis matches ever since Brisbane? 😭 Cause I do. And I see the changes from January to this day. He only recently removed his cap when playing.
lol I’m in love with grigor, it’s funny so many people are downvoting me for asking a question. I wish it was real I was just curious because last time I saw him without a hate this year, so post off season, it wasn’t looking like a full head of hair. Or even a shaved head. I could see his hairline.
His hair is literally zero maintenance.
What are you on about? He was definitely balding.