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Grigor Dimitrov is Seed 4 of the main draw of the €30K ATP Challenger in the German town of Eckental. In the first round on Monday or Tuesday he will play the 25-years-old Serbian player Ilija Bozoljac, ATP rank 139. Dimitrov and Bozoljac played twice before and it was the Serbian who won both matches - in 2009 at the quarterfinal in Nottingham 1-6 6-3 6-4 and at the first round in Knoxville 6-4 6...

Expectedly after reaching the final of the ATP Challenger in Orléans Grigor Dimitrov moved 17 position ahead and occupied No 114 at this week's ATP Ranking which is his best ever position. Only at age of 19 Dimitrov became the second best ranked Bulgarian ever. Until now this was Milen Velev who reached up to No 121. The best ever ranked Bulgarian tennis player is Orlin Stanoychev who was No 96.
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In a tied match for the title of the ATP Challenger in Orléans, France, Grigor Dimitrov lost to Nicolas Mahut of France 6-2 6-7(6) 6-7(4).

In the first set Grigor Dimitrov broke the very first game of Mahut to 1-0, quickly took the second service game to 0. Mahut took his service game to 2-1. Grigor took another service game to love - 3-1 as the aces of Grigor were already 4. Mahut served and t...

Another Top 100 tennis player was defeated by Grigor Dimitrov. The Bulgarian won over No 32 Michael Llodra of France in the semifinal of Open d'Orléans in three sets 7-6(4) 3-6 7-5 within more than 2 hours. For the win in the semifinal Grigor gained 75 ranking points which would position him at around No 112 in the ATP ranking. Grigor reaches for the first time in his career the final of a tournam...

Grigor Dimitrov succeeded to find place in the semifinals of the ATP Challenger in the French town of Orléans after a dramatic quarterfinal win over the Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut. Grigor lost the first set 3-6 then he recovered and won the second set 6-2. In the third set when the score was 4-4 Dimitrov broke the game of Bautista-Agut and was serving for the match with score 5-4. The Spanish ...

Grigor Dimitrov defeated the Austrian Martin Fischer, ATP rank 122, in the second round of Open d'Orléans in France with a score of 6-4 7-6(3). In the first set Grigor reached 2-0 after a break and until the end the players were winning their service games to close the set 6-4. In the second set none could break the service game of the other player and the set was decided by tie-break which was wo...

In the first round of the 106'500 EUR ATP Challenger in Orléans, France, Grigor Dimitrov defeated ATP Rank 79 Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 7-5 6-3. This was the 3rd win of Grigor over a Top 100 players. Dimitrov won 10 ranking points for this win.


In the second round on Wednesday Dimitrov will play the Austrian Martin Fischer, ATP rank 122....

Grigor Dimitrov lost in the second round of the ATP Challenger in Rennes, France to Frank Dancevic, Canada6-7(4) 6-7(3) and 16 successive wins series was stopped this way. In the both sets the players were taking their service games and neither could reach a break-point. Both sets had to decided by tie-breaks where the experience of the ex No 65 Canadian was decisive. With the 8 points won from th...

Grigor Dimitrov won the first round match of the 64'000 EUR ATP Challenger in the French town of Rennes. His opponent the Frenchman Laurent Rochette took easily the first set 6-1. Then Dimitrov responded with 6 won games and took the set 6-0. In the decisive 3rd set Dimitrov succeeded to break his opponent to 4-3 and even after missing 4 match-balls when the result was 5-4 he eventually closed the...

After 2 weeks pause Grigor Dimitrov will start in the main draw of the 64'000 EUR ATP Challenger in the French city of Rennes. Dimitrov is seed No 7 and in the first round will play Laurent Rochette of France, current ATP rank 275. Grigor Dimitrov defeated Rochette 6-1 6-4 in the quarter-final of the Challenger in Geneva in August. If Dimitrov reaches the quarterfinals he would play 32-years-old A...

In the ATP ranking of 4 October 2010 Grigor is ranked 135 despite he did not play and did not gain any new points last week and this is his new personal top ranking. Dimitrov has 414 points - equal to the points of Peter Luczak (Australia) and Ilija Bozoljac (Serbia).

The Bulgarians after Grigor are Dimitar Kutrovsky - at 566, Tihomir Grozdanov - 582. The other Bulgarian tennis players in Top 1...