Grigor Dimitrov and Devin Britton lost in the first round of the doubles of the ATP Challenger in Dallas, TX, USA, to the MexiansLuis Herrera / Javier Herrera-Eguiluz with a result of 6-2 1-6 [6-10].

Grigor Dimitrov lost his first round match against Marco Crugnola of Italy 6-3 2-6 2-6 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He did not gain any ATP ranking points and earned $520 of the prize money. Dimitrov's participation at the Dallas Challenger will continue in the doubles tournament.

Grigor Dimitrov with the American Devin Britton (18 y.o, singles ATP Rank 1466, no rank in doubles) will start with wild card in the main draw of the doubles tournament as in the first round they will play other wild card entrants the Mexicans Luis Herrera (38 y.o., non-ranked) / Javier Herrera-Eguiluz (25 y.o., singles - 1285, doubles - 654).


The first round match of Grigor vs Crugnola is on Monday at Court 8 after 3 other matches as the first one starts at 10 am local time. In the new ranking of the week of 1 February Marco Crugnola is at 227.

Grigor Dimitrov moves 10 positions ahead in the ATP Ranking of 1 February and this week he is at 258. In the doubles Grigor loses positions and this week is at 337.

After Australian Open there are several changes in Top 10. The champion of the first Grand Slam of the year Roger Federer (Switzerland) is No 1. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) is the new No 2 and the finalist Andy Murray (Great Britain) - the finalist at Australian Open is No 3. The ex No 2 Rafael Nadal (Spain) slides down to No 4. The positions from 5 to 8 are unchanged and are occupied by Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina), Nikolay Davydenko (Russia), Andy Roddick (USA) and Robin Soderling (Sweden). Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) moves to No 9 and Marin Cilic (Croatia) closes the Top 10 by moving 4 positions ahead.

Valentin Dimov is the new No 2 Bulgarian tennis player at position 652 only 2 positions ahead of Tihomir Grozdanov. Ivaylo Traykov and Todor Enev are respectively at 688 and 809.

Marco Crugnola of Italy is the opponent of Grigor Dimitrov in the starting round of the main draw of the 50'000 USD ATP Challenger in Dalla, Texas, USA. Crugnola is 26 years old and has a current ATP ranking of 223 his best ranking being 165 in July 2009.

Grigor Dimitrov lost to the the former Junior No 1 Donald Young (USA) in the second round of the ATP Challenger in Hawaii. Young took the first set 6-4 and the second set and the match ended with tie-break which Young took with 7-2.

Dimitrov gained 10 ATP rank points (3 from the qualifications and 7 for reaching the second round) and 860 USD of the prize money.

Next week Grigor will play at the ATP Challenger in Dallas, Texas, USA and most probably will start directly in the main draw.

Grigor Dimitrov continued his winning series versus the American Michael Yani. In the first round of the $50K Challenger in Hawaii Dimitrov defeated Yani in two sets6-2 7-6(3). This way the head-to-head balance between them is 3-0 after the matches in Charlottesville, USA, in November 2009, and in Noumea, New Caledonia, in the beginning of 2010.

In the second round Grigor Dimitrov will play the winner of the match between Donald Young (USA, 20 y.o., ATP Rank 195) and Guillaume Rufin (France, 19 y.o., ATP Rank 173).

Grigor Dimitrov won his 3rd round qualifications match vs Brian Battistone (USA) and entered the main draw of the ATP Challenger in Honolulu.

Dimitrov defeated Brian Battistone of USA in straight sets 6-1 6-2. For passing to the main draw the Bulgarian gained 3 ATP ranking points.

In the first round of the main draw Grigor will play the American Michael Yani, Seed 6 and ATP rank 159, on 27 January 2010, Wednesday. The two players met twice and Dimitrov has two wins - in November 2009 at Charlottesville Challenger and earlier this month in Noumea, New Caledonia.

Grigor Dimitrov won in the second round of the 50'000 USD ATP Challenger in Hawaii. Grigor had to play 3 tough sets with the 838 ranked Australian Joel Lindner to win with score of7-5 3-6 7-5.

In the match which will decide the participant in the main draw Dimitrov will play Brian Battistone of USA. 30-years-old Battistone is mainly doubles player in team with his brother and has a doubles rank of 239 and is not in the singles rankings. The match is at 10 am local time on Monday (9 pm CET) at court 3.

According to the published main draw of the tournament the possible opponent of Dimitrov in the main draw if successful against Battistone would be Seed 3 and ATP Rank 110 Jesse Levine (USA), Seed 6 and ATP rank 159 Michael Yani (USA), Andre Bagemann (233, Germany) or Lester Cook (225, USA) .

Grigor Dimitrov will start directly in the second round as Seed 2 of the ATP Challenger in Honolulu, Hawaii. In the second round he will play the winner between the non-ranked wild card entry Ikaika Jobe of USA and Joel Lindner of Australia, ATP Rank 838. The second round matches will be played after 2pm on Sunday.

The top-ranked player that Grigor could play in the 3rd round is Seed 8 and ATP rank 339 Vasek Pospisil (Canada).