Even though he won the first set, in the round of 16 at the Wimbledon championships Grigor Dimitrov succumbed to No. 6 seed Holger Rune by 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (4), 3-6. The match between 32-year old Dimitrov, and the 20-year old player from Denmark lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes, and is the only match played between the two so far.
Rositsa Dencheva, in the girls’ event, put up an excellent performance, qualifying for the third round, after defeating Ela Milic, Slovenia by 6-2, 6-3. She is to play the winner from the match between Clervie Ngounoue, USA and Isabelle Lacy, UK.
Two more Bulgarian contestants will be playing today – in the second juniors round, Iliyan Radulov will be playing versus No. 38 seed Matic Kriznik, Slovenia and Iva Ivanova, in tandem with Malwina Rowinska, Poland, in the girls’ event versus Blackford/Roach, UK.
The Bulgarian national tennis team returned to the Davis Cup World Group I after defeating Romania 3-1 in Craiova. The decisive point came from Adrian Andreev, who, despite suffering from a severe flu during the past week, defeated Romania’s top..
After it became clear that the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation was on the verge of bankruptcy, DPS-New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski met with the federation's president Stefan Botev and promised to find a solution to the problem. "Thanks to this..
European champion and second in the world Kiril Milov became the winner of the “Nikola Petrov” gold belt for the second time in the Greco-Roman wrestling, while Ahmed Bataev for the first time grabbed the “Dan Kolov” gold in the..
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