Grigor Dimitrov and his partner the Turk Marsel Ilhan reached the finals of the 50K USD Challenger in Istanbul after defeatingFrench pairNicolas Mahut / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France)4-6 6-3 [10-5]. Grigor/Marsel gained 45 ATP points and 1800 USD of the prize money for their participation in the finals.

The Bulgarian-Turkish pair will play for the title on Saturday, 15 August 2009, at 6 pm local time againstFrederico Gil (Portugal) /Filip Prpic (Sweden) who have doubles ranking respectively 483 and 743. Frederico Gil who is Seed 1 of the singles tournament will play earlier tomorrow his semi-final match against Florian Mayer of Germany.