Grigor Dimitrov left Australian Open after 5 set defeat by world No 10 Nicolas Almagro of Spain. The match lasted 3 hours 29 minutes and Grigor took the lead in sets twice. Before the last set Grigor left the court for medical timeout for pains in his right leg. Dimitrov was not able to respond as in theprovisossets and lost it 0-6. This way this spectacular match was taken by Almagro 4-6 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4 6-0.

The Bulgarian gained 33'300 dollars for his participation and 45 ranking points which will not cover the 70 point of last year which lead to losing of several ranking positions after the end of Australian Open. Dimitrov is the player's list of a series of tournaments in the USA from 13 February on.

Grigor Dimitrov started with success at the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. He needed more than 3 hours to defeat the Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 4-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-4 making the head-to-head score 1-1. In the first round match between Dimitrov and Chardy at last year's Roland Garros it was Chardy who reached the success. It was only the second time in his career when Dimitrov plays 5-sets match.

For passing to the second round Dimitrov added 45 points but he needs to defend 70 ranking points from his last year participation at Australian Open. Grigor Dimitrov moved to No 78 in the ATP Ranking announced today.

In the second round Grigor Dimitrov will play No 10 Nicolas Almagro of Spain. Earlier today Amlagro defeated the Pole Lukasz Kubot 1-6 7-5 6-3 7-5.

Grigor Dimitrov defeated the Estonian Jurgen Zopp 6-1 6-7(6) 6-2 in the first round of the qualifications of the ATP 250 tournament in Sydney, Australia on Saturday morning. Two hours later he started the second round match against the Australian wild card holder Adam Feeney but retired and left the tournament. It was too tiring for Grigor to play the 4th match within 20 hours and after 3300 km/5 hour flight from Perth to Sydney.

The young Bulgarian will have one week to recover and better prepare for the main draw matches of the Australian Open which will start from 16 January in Melbourne.

Grigor Dimitrov demonstrated his talent at 100% in the men's single match of the Bulgaria - USA tie at Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia. The young Bulgarian scored his first win over Top 10 player by convincingly defeating No 8 Mardy Fish 6-2 6-1 within 1 hour. Earlier today Tsvetana Pironkova lost to Bethanie Mattek-Sands 4-6, 4-6. Before the doubles match which will start in a while the result of the tie is 1-1. It is Czech Republic who guaranteed the top position of the Group A and will play at the final on Sunday after winning over Denmark with both Kvitova and Berdych defeating Wozniacki and Nielsen respectively.

Immediately after the doubles match with Pironkova vs Fish/Mattek-Sands, Grigor Dimitrov will leave for Sydney where he will start as Seed 5 of the qualification tournament on Saturday. Dimitrov will play the Estonian Jurgen Zopp in the first round. The matches of the second round of the qualifications are in the afternoon of Saturday.

In the first tie of Bulgaria vs Czech Republic at Hopman Cup in Perth, Autralia, Grigor Dimitrov and Tsvetana Pironkova lost their single matches and won the doubles match against world No 7 Tomas Berdych and No 2 Petra Kvitova. In the first match Kvitova defeated Pironkova with a score of 6-4 6-2. Grigor Dimitrov succeeded to take a set but ultimately lost to Tomas Berdych 4-6 7-6(9) 3-6. Then in the third match the Bulgarian pair reached the success over Czech Republic 6-2 3-6 11-9.

Berdych started the match with strong services and powerful play with forehands and backhands and succeeded to break Dimitrov's game when the result was 2-1. This way the Czech took the first set 6-4. Grigor Dimitrov succeeded to break in the second set to reach a lead of 5-3 but Berdych bounced back and sent the set to tie-break. Dimitrov raced to 4-1 advantage in the tie-break but the experienced Czech won the next 3 points. The 20-years-old Bulgarian held his nerve very well and clinched the tie-break 11-9. In the third set Berdych proved too strong and took the set 6-3 and the match and sealed the win of Czech Republic in the tie.

"He (Dimitrov) is playing really well, he’s going to be improving and he’s improving in the last couple of months but he’s going to be really dangerous this year and as he just showed right now he can play really well. I’m pretty happy to start the year with a win," said Berdych.

The next tie of Bulgaria is vs Denmark represented by No 1 Caroline Wozniacki and No 236 Frederik Nielsen. The matches start at 2:30 AM CET on Wednesday. Bulgarian National TV (www.bnt.bg) live broadcasts the matches.

Peter McNamara will no more coach Grigor Dimitrov. The Patrick Muratolglu Academy announced that the 1.5 years coaching relationship of Dimitrov with McNamara is over. The Australian McNamara helped Dimitrov to reach his best ever ranking of No 52. The academy will hire a new coach for Grigor Dimitrov in the upcoming weeks.

With most of the athletes of the Muratoglu Academy Grigor Dimitrov will leave for the island of Mauritius for a training session before the new season.

After his participation at If Stockholm Open in Sweden Grigor Dimitrov arrived in Bulgaria. This week he entertained the kids at the special event of Elite Tennis Club in the city of Varna and wasinterviewedby many Bulgarian media. Among the questions about his presentation at the tournament throughout the year one of the main topics is the first participation of Bulgaria at Hopman Cup. The tournament in Perth, Australia, starts on 31 December and is not part of ATP Tour.

8 nations are invited for participation by the organizers - one male and one female player from a country. Tsvetana Pironkova and Grigor Dimitrov will represent Bulgaria on its first ever participation at Hopman Cup. The Bulgarian team is in group A with the Seed 1 Czech Republic, Seed 4 USA and Denmark. The other 4 teams are in group B: Seed 2 France, Seed 3 Spain, Australia and China.

In the Round Robin each team plays a tie against the other teams in the group - single men, single women, mixed double. The winners of Group A and Group B will play a final tie to determine the title winner.

Bulgaria starts against the Czech Republic on 2 January 2012 with Grigor Dimitrov playing vs Tomas Berdych and Tsvetana Pironkova vs Petra Kvitova. Then on 4 January is the tie Bulgaria-Denmark with the matches against Frederik Nielsen and Caroline Wozniacki. The third tie is on 6 January against USA represented by Mardy Fish and Bathanie Mattek-Sands.

Group B teams include many notable players too. France is represented by Marion Bartoli and Richard Gasquet, Spain - by Anabel Medina Garrigues and Fernando Verdasco, the hosts Australia - by Jarmila Gajdosova and Lleyton Hewitt and China - by Li Na and Wu Di.

Grigor Dimitrov reached his fourth ATP World Tour quarter-final in his career so far when he ousted Seed 4Juan Ignacio Chelaof Argentine6-2 5-7 6-1. He succeeded to convert 6 of 10 break-points in the match. Year to date win-loss balance of Grigor improved to 18-24. This was his third win over Top 30 player from total of 19 attempts so far - over Berdych (No 23), Baghdatis (No 25) and now Chela (No 28).

"I was struggling a bit at the beginning of the set and definitely [Chela] was raising his game and he made great shots here and there," said Dimitrov. "Got a bit confused, got into his game, and I lost focused a little bit in the second set."

45 ranking points were added to the balance of Dimitrov and he won 15'730 EUR of the prize for reaching the quarter-finals.

Dimitrov will play Seed 6 and rank 29 Milos Raonic of Canada in the match of the youngsters.

Grigor Dimitrov started with an easy win at If Stockholm Open, €600K ATP tournament. In the first round Dimitrov defeated Ryan Sweeting of USA, No 66, with a score of 6-3 6-1. Grigor Dimitrov dominated throughout the match and did not let any break-points, in his turn he won 4 break points.

Grigor won €9'265 of the prize money and 20 ranking points. Dimitrov has to defend 75 ranking points from reaching the final in Orleans, France, last year.

On Thursday Dimitrov will play the Argentinian Juan Ignacio Chela in the second round of the tournament. The 32-years-old Chela is No 28 as his highest rank was No 15 back in 2004. 2011 is successful for Chela - he reached one final and 3 semifinals. At Roland Garros he played at the quarterfinals.

The match is on the Central Court at 12:00 noon CET and could be followed live.

Grigor Dimitrov left the Shanghai Masters after losing in the second round to ex No 1 Andy Roddick. The American who is currently No 15 advanced to the third round after 2 sets win 7-6(3) 7-5. So far Grigor played against Top 20 players 12 times and he still could not reach to a win. Back in 2009 in Rotterdam Dimitrov won against then No 23 the Czech Tomas Berdych.

With the 45 points that Grigor won in Shanghai would move one or two places upwards in the next week's ranking.

Grigor Dimitrov will start in the main draw of the €600K ATP 250 tournament in Stockholm in the company of Soderling, Monfils, Wawrinka, Del Potro, Chela, Mayer, Raonic, Dodig during the week of 17 October.