Julien Benneteau

Despite the strange loss from John Isner (US) at the 1/8-final of the Masters Tournament in Paris (€ 4.2m), Grigor Dimitrov will make two-position jump in the world tennis rankings on Monday. The Bulgarian had lead of 5:2 in the III set, in 5:3 served for the win in the  match but in the end lost 6:7 (10), 7: 5, 6:7(3).

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.

Tennis player Grigor Dimitrov managed to secure a hard victory against Spain's Fernando Verdasco in his first encounter at China Open in Beijing.

Dimitrov won the match that lasted 1 h 36 min and ended 6:1, 3:6, 6:3.

After an easy first set for Dimitrov, Verdasco posed a tough challenge to the Bulgarian, who lost the second one.

CINCINNATI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor have failed to reach the semifinals of the ATP Masters in Cincinnati.

They lost to Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France 6-3 6-4 on Friday.

The French duo will face Canada's Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock from the US in the semis.

The prize fund for the tournament is USD 4 million.

Bulgaria's top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov has suffered a surprise defeat to Jerzy Janowicz in the Cincinnati Masters, Wednesday.

The Pole fired 12 aces in a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Dimitrov. For the Bulgarian tennis star it was a disappointing end to an excellent run that saw him progress to the Wimbledon and Toronto semi-finals.

CINCINNATI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor of Canada reached the men's doubles quarter-finals at the Cincinnati ATP Masters 1000 tournament early Thursday by beating the Spanish-Colombian pair of Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-2 in just 44 minutes.

TORONTO - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Danijel Nestor advanded to the semifinals of the men's doubles event at the Masters Series tournament in Toronto, after defeating the French pair Julien Benneteau/Edouard Roger-Vasselin 2-6, 6-3, 14-12 late on Friday CET.

TORONTO - Serbia's Nenad Zimonijc and Canada's Daniel Nestor reached the Rogers Cup doubles quarter-finals by beating the Serbian-Swiss pair of Novak Djokovic and Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 6-4 in Toronto early Thursday.

MONTE CARLO - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor reached the doubles semifinals at the Monte Carlo Masters, after defeating Romain Arneodo and Balleret Benjamin of Monaco 6-4, 6-3 on Friday.

MIAMI - Serbia's Novak Djokovic has reached the 4th round of the ATP Masters tournament in Miami after Germany's Florian Meier withdrew from the competition citing injury.

Their match was scheduled for Sunday.

Djokovic's next opponent will be the winner of the match between Tommy Robredo of Spain and Julien Benneteau of France.