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Posted on January 8, 2012 - by

First Win Over Top 10 Player for Grigor Dimitrov

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.

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Posted on August 18, 2011 - by

Dimitrov lost to Ferrer in Cincinnati

Despite giving a great performance yesterday in Cincinnati, Dimitrov lost to David Ferrer 4:6, 6:1, 7:5 after 2 hours and 23 minutes of play. Ferrer was just coming back from a wrist injury and was a little rusty, especially in the first set, when Grigor had an early break for 4:1. However, the Spaniard started to find the range in the second set and fought off all three of Dimitrov’s break points. Ferrer had also three break points, the last at 5:1 to win the set.

Grigor had several spectacular shots in the last set, he even had two break chances at 4:4, but sadly he could not realize them, allowing Ferrer to take the advantage 4 times at 5:6, and ultimately win the match.

For his participation at the Cincinnati Masters Dimitrov gained 45 ranking points and $ 17 040. He has to defend 27 ranking points for winning the ITF Futures in Spain last year, so he actually adds only 18 points to his balance. This can result in Dimitrov climbing another four positions up in the Ranking List, reaching #52, which will be his new own record.

Dimitrov’s next challenge will be the ATP 250 tournament in Winston-Salem with prize money $625,000, starting next week. Some of the other players participating in the tournament are Roddick, Fish, Isner, Harrison, Dolgopolov, Meltzer and Baghdatis.


Posted on August 16, 2011 - by

First win for Grigor at Cincinnati.

Grigor Dimitrov defeated his opponent in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters Marsel Ilhan /Turkey/ 6:3, 7:5. Dimitrov won two break points – one in the 6th game of the first det and one in the 11th game of the second set, which led to his success. Reaching the second round of the tournament, Dimitrov gained 45 ranking points and $17 040. His opponent for the second round is David Ferrer /Spain/, world’s No. 6 and Seed 5 in the tournament. Both players have never met on court before.


Posted on August 16, 2011 - by

Grigor Dimitrov and Tursunov at training


Posted on August 15, 2011 - by

Dimitrov will play against Marsel İlhan at Cincinnati Masters

Grigor Dimitrov received a wild card for the main draw of the ATP Masters in Cincinnati, Ohio. His oponent in the first round will be 24-year old Marsel İlhan from Turkey. At the moment he is #109, his best ever ranking was #87. Ilhan, same as Dimitrov, has never won an ATP title. Both players have never met on court before.


Posted on August 15, 2011 - by

Dimitrov dropped out of the tournament in Washington.

Grigor Dimitrov lost to the Serbian Janko Tipsarević in the 3rd round in Washigton.
Because of the rain Grigor had to play two matches within a few hours. In the first match he was able to dismiss Michael Llorda /France/, but lost to Janko Tipsarevic 4:6, 2:6 in the third round. Grigor met Smyczek in the first round in this tournament and lost the first set 6:4, but then he surprised everyone winning 7;6,7;6.
After reaching the third round of the ATP 500 Legg MasonTennis Classic in Washington Dimitrov gained 45 points and is now #56 in the World rank list.


Posted on August 2, 2011 - by

Dimitrov vs. Smyczek in the first round in Washington D.C.

Bulgaria’s best tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will play against the Qualifier Tim Smyczek /US/ in the first round of the Legg MasonTennis Classic in Washington, D. C, an ATP World Tour 500 event. If Dimitrov wins in the first round he will gain additional 20 points for the ATP Rank List and $7585. His oponent in the second round would be in that case tha #10 seed of the tournament Michael Llodra /France/.

Smyczek is 23 years old and #227 at the moment. He is 175 cm tall and weighs 66 kg. He has never won a tournament in his career so far and he has won a total of $233416 prize money. Smyczek and Dimitrov have not played against each other before.


Posted on April 29, 2011 - by

Grigor Dimitrov as DJ


Future tennis superstar Grigor Dimitrov meets up with Crossfader King DJ’s Matt Roan and E-Six to have a blast trading spin secrets.


Posted on December 3, 2010 - by

The scandal is growing

The scandal around Grigor Dimitrov is growing. All world media reported Grigor’s behavior at the tournament in Helsinki, where he was rude to the umpire and pushed him of his chair. General view is that his behavior was totally unacceptable. However, it is still not known whether he will be punished more severely.

A journalist from the popular site Tennistalk Ricky Dimon even called Grigor “an idiot” on his Twitter account.

The Russian tennis player Dmitry Tursunov, who is close to Grigor, asked the journalist not to make such qualifications: “Funny how a reporter can offend a tennis player and nobody complains about that.”

“Nadal would never push an umpire … and neither would you,” answered the journalist.

“If something like this would have happened to him, we would see how his PR Manager activates the machine and proves that Nadal was right to do so. Have you not watched the tournaments when Federer was still young, wasn’t № 1 in the rankings and had no sponsors to worry about” replied Tursunov, referring to Federer’s short-tempered nature when he was young.

“Nadal wouldn’t do such thing because his image will suffer. Remember what happened to Serena? You have no idea who would do what in witch situation. All you know about these tennis players comes from the press. But have you ever had a cup of tea with one of them? Doing a stupid thing does not make one stupid… You insult the intelligence of a man you don’t even know,” wrote the Russian tennis player.

“You’re right. I have to say that what Dimitrov did is an idiotic act. I take back what I said about him being an idiot,” apologized Ricky Dimon.

“To write negative stuff always sells a story. But if you want this story to become even more outrageous why don’t you go to Dimitrov and tell him in person that he is an idiot. Then write what happened. Surely this will sell even better, “said Dmitry Tursunov.


Posted on December 3, 2010 - by

Grigor Dimitrov got a $ 2000 fine

Grigor Dimitrov was fined $ 2000 at the Challenger in Helsinki after he “pushed” the umpire of his chair and started cursing at him at the end of the semi-final match against Lithuanian Richard Berankis. An article about the incident was published on the Helsingin Sanomat: “There were hot moments in the Helsinki Challenger when Dimitrov pushed the Austrian referee Daniel Infanger. Dimitrov pushed and bad-mouthed the umpire. The situation had the potential to become worse but an Italian colleague of Infanger went between them.
“The immunity of the umpire is a sacred thing in sports. You can disagree with calls but this was way out of line” said the president of the Finnish umpire’s association Antti Aine, who saw the incident close up.

The Bulgarian got a 2000 dollar fine for the incident and according to tournament supervisor Carmelo Di Dio it is possible that the ATP will give further penalties to Dimitrov.”


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