Ernests Gulbis

Grigor Dimitrov has dropped out of the Indian Wells masters, Tennis Cafe reported, citing the manager of the tennis player Georgi Stoimenov. The cause is again pain in the shoulder.

The Bulgarian, 28th in the world, has already missed the Rotterdam and Acapulco tournaments because of the trauma, but was expected to return to the court for the Indian Wells race.

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas was named on Friday as the most improved player of 2018 by the ATP World Tour Awards.

He joins tennis legends Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal who will also be honoured at the ceremony that will be held on Friday evening's award presentations at the Official Launch of the Nitto ATP Finals.

Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria has kept his 18th place in the ATP ranking, the association's website shows.

Dimitrov returned to the world's Top 20 after picking up this summer, following more than a year of heavy defeats which caused him to sing down the world ranking.

Lucas Pouille and Richard Gasquett, both from France, are No 17 and 19, respectively.

The best Bulgarian male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov proceeded to the 1/8 finals of the BNP Paribas Masters, which is taking place in Paris between November 2 and 8.

Dimitrov defeated Marin Cilic from Croatia with 7:6 (3), 7:6 (2) in a match from the second round of the tournament, which was played on Wednesday.

Bulgaria's top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov suffered a heavy defeat and was ousted in the first round of Roland Garros on Tuesday.

Dimitrov was defeated by Jack Sock from the USA with 6:7 (7), 2:6, 3:6, failing to achieve a break, daily Dnevnik reports.

BEIJING - Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Filip Krajinovic reached the doubles quarterfinal at the ATP tournament in Beijing after the withdrawal of Latvian Ernest Gulbis and Polish Marcin Matkowski in the first round on Thursday.

Djokovic/Krajinovic are next to take on Italian-Argentinean pair Fabio Fognini/Leonardo Mayer.

PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic is through to the Roland Garros final, after defeating Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Friday.

The world number two is now only a step away from the only Grand Slam title he lacks, and will face either Britain's Andy Murray or Spain's Rafael Nadal for the title.

PARIS – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reached the 2014 French Open semi-finals after beating Canadian Milos Raonic in straight sets 7-5, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 on Tuesday.

The world numbers two and nine were about equal in performance during the entire match, but the Serb’s concentration was better in the decisive moments.

ROME - Serbia's highest-ranked male tennis player Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of the Rome Masters tournament by beating Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 late Thursday.

In an unusual match - their fourth so far - Djokovic came from behind to beat the current world number 29.