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Grigor Dimitrov left the singles draw of Australian Open after loss in straight sets to Julien Benneteau of France 4-6 2-6 4-6. The Bulgarian started the match with a strong play and with early break reached 3-0 lead. But then Benneteau took the next 5 games to 3-5. Then both players took their service games to 4-6. The Frenchman took the second set after breaking the service games of Dimitrov twice. With 3-3 in the third set Benneteau won another break point to 3-4, then on 4-5 served for the m...

Grigor Dimitrov will start against Seed 32 and rank No 35 Julien Benneteau of France in the starting round of the main draw of the first Grand Slam tournament of 2013 Australian Open in Melbourne. The highest ranking of Benneteau is 26 reached in April 2012. Dimitrov beat Benneteau twice of two matches played before - very tight matches in Basel and Gstaad in 2012.

If successful at the start Dimitrov would play Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France, No 101, or qualifier.

This is the 4th partici...

Grigor Dimitrov showed nothing of the great play of last week which lead to a crushing loss by No 47 Fabio Fognini 3-6 1-6. No points will be added to the ranking balance of the Bulgarian. The next match of Dimitrov is at the first round of the main draw of Australian Open in Melbourne. His opponent's name will be published on Friday when the draw ceremony will be held....

Grigor Dimitrov's new rank 41 is featured in the Movers section of the home page of the ATP World Tour site. The points gained at Brisbane International allowed Dimitrov to be positioned very close to to Top 40. The participation at the doubles draw and reaching the semifinal with Kei Nishikori brought Grigor back to the doubles ranking. This week Dimitrov enters as No 564.

The sponsor change of the ATP World Tour ranking renames also its name - from this week on it is named Emirates ATP Rank...

Grigor Dimitrov and Andy Murray played a spectacular final match in Brisbane, Australia. In the key moment the experienced Andy Murray demonstrated his higher class to defend his title 7-6(0) 6-4. Dimitrov started the match perfectly and quickly reached a lead of 3-0. Murray broke the service game of Grigor when he was serving for the set to 5-5. Dimitrov had a set-ball on Murray's serve but missed to win it and tie-break followed. Grigor could not take any point and Murray won the tie-break con...

Grigor Dimitrov is the first Bulgarian male tennis player to reach ATP tournament final. In dramatic semifinal match Dimitrov took down the Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-3 5-7 7-6(5) in 2h 35min.

The Bulgarian started the match in best way reaching a lead of 3-0 games. Baghdatis saved another break-point in the next game and made made all efforts to return to the set and had two break-points on 1-3 and 2-4 but Grigor saved them and then closed the set 6-3. In the beginning of the second set Grig...

Grigor Dimitrov continues his victorious series in Brisbane, Australia. In the quarterfinals on Friday the young Bulgarian talent knocked off another seed Jurgen Meltzer of Austria in straight sets 6-3 6-2. 10-years-younger Dimitrov started the match very well winning an early break point to 2-0. In the following service games Dimitrov had to save break points on his turn and did it and eventually won the set 6-3. The dominance of Dimitrov in the second set was obvious. Meltzer succeeded to resi...

Grigor Dimitrov guaranteed place in the quarter-finals of the ATP 250 tournament in Brisbane, Australia with a magnificent win over Seed 2 Milos Raonic of Canada in straight sets 6-3 6-4.

The match started with dominance of Raonic, the Canadian had 2 break-points which we saved by Dimitrov. The Bulgarian took the first chance for break to 4-2. Grigor won his next service games to 0 and closed the set with powerful ace. The second set reached 4-4 with the serving party taking the game. Then af...

In Day 1 of the new year Grigor Dimitrov was victorious against No 61 Brian Baker of USA. The Bulgarian needed 82 minutes to beat in two sets 6-3 7-6(8). For this first round win in Brisbane, Australia, Grigor gained 20 ranking points and $7750 of the prize money. Dimitrov dominated in the start of the match by winning 12 of the 13 games and reached to 3-0. When leading 5-2 he missed to score the set-ball but then closed the 1st set 6-3 on his serve. In the second set Dimitrov had 3 chances for ...