Bulgaria’s best tennis player Grigor Dimitrov qualified for the third round of the 2024 Shanghai Masters with a prize fund of USD 9 million. The ninth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov defeated Zizou Bergs (Belgium) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. The match began on Saturday but was suspended due to rain. It also rained on Sunday, and the match had to be finished today. Dimitrov’s next opponent will be 20th-seed Alexei Popyrin (Australia).
In the second round of the tennis tournament, Popyrin (ATP Rank 24) defeated Miomir Kecmanovic (Serbia) 6:3, 6:2. Popyrin holds a 2-1 lead against Dimitrov. In August, he defeated Dimitrov at the Montreal Masters.
Bulgarian tennis player Viktoriya Tomova achieved a decisive victory at the start of the WTA 125 tournament on clay with a prize fund of 100,000 euros in the Italian city of Bari. Tomova won 6:0, 6:2 against Guiomar..
Rositsa Dencheva got off to a flying start at the French open tennis tournament Roland-Garros. In the girls’ singles she won versus against No. 2 seed Kristina Penickova, USA, by 6-4, 6-1. One more Bulgarian player qualified for the..
Valentina Georgieva defended her second place in the vault final of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the German city of Leipzig . The Bulgarian gymnast, who also placed second last year in Rimini, performed a great first vault, which..
A serious injury led to the withdrawal of Grigor Dimitrov from the round of 16 match with Jannick Sinner at Wimbledon. The Bulgarian..
Alexander Vasilev has reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Junior Championships. Seeded No. 12, Vasilev defeated Keaton Hance (USA) 7–6(5), 6–4 in..
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