Denis Istomin

Bulgaria's tennis player Grigor Dimitrov marches on after several wins in the season.

Dimitrov has now defeated Denis Istomin at the second round of the ATP Tournament 500 in Rotterdam (7:6 (3), 6:1).

Istomin himself beat reigning champion Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open.

Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open after defeating Denis Istomin (2:6, 7:6 (2), 6:2, 6:1).

This is the second time Dimitrov will play at the quarter-finals since 2014.

Bulgaria's tennis player Grigor Dimitrov has defeated French player Richard Gasquet in the third round of the Australian Open (6:3, 6:2, 6:4).

This is only the second victory for Dimitrov in 7 matches against the Frenchman.

Dimitrov will face Denis Istomin on Monday.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic has lost (7-6, (10-8), 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4) his second round Australian Open match to Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.

The match between Djokovic, ranked second on the ATP list, and Istomin (117th) was played on Thursday.

MELBOURNE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic will begin his Australian Open title defence against Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

If he wins, Djokovic - a six-time champion in Melbourne - will face the winner of the match between Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin and a qualifier.

AP photo

Full article available to Tanjug subscribers

SYDNEY - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi are through to the second round of the Sydney ATP doubles tournament after beating Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday.

Bulgarian tennis star Grigor Dimitrov scored a victory against Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin in his first game at the Shanghai Masters in China on Monday.

Dimitrov defeated Istomin 6:3, 6:3 in slightly over an hour, securing additional 45 points for the ATP rankings.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor beat Collin Flemming and Ross Hutchins from the UK 6-4 6-3 at the US Open on Wednesday and went through to the 2nd round.

DUBAI - Serbia's best-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic opened his title defense at the ATP tournament in Dubai with a straight-sets victory over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan (6-3, 6-3).

In the second round on Wednesday, Djokovic will face world no. 51, Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who defeated Adrian Ungur of Romania by 6-1, 6-3 on Monday.

DUBAI - Serbia's best-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic and Spain's Carlos Gomez-Herrera lost their first round match in the doubles competition of the ATP tournament in Dubai on Monday to the Polish-Czech pairing of Tomasz Bednarek/Lukas Dlouhi by 7-5, 1-6, 10-5.

Bednarek and Dlouhi will next face the winners of Lukas Rosol/Andreas Seppi - Mariusz FyrstenbergMarcin Matkowski.