Diego Schwartzman

ISTANBUL - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Istanbul ATP tennis tournament after beating Russia's Mikhail Yuzhny 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 on Thursday.

In a bid to qualify for the semi-finals, the Serbian, who won after nearly two hours, will face Diego Schwartzman of Argentina.

Tanjug photo, T. Valic

Bulgaria's highest-ranking tennis player Grigor Dimitrov has made it back into the twenty best players according to the ATP's website.

Dimitrov has been progressing within the ATP rankings over the past weeks, his current result being a spot up compared to last Monday.

At 1735 points, he is ten points behind Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and thirty ahead of Croatia's Ivo Karlović.

Bulgaria's highest-ranking tennis player Grigor Dimitrov is to play against Diego Schwartzman in the third round of a tournament in Chengdu, China.

It was in a match against Schwartzman that Dimitrov was on the brink of grabbing the title of Istanbul Open this spring, but surprisingly lost 7:6, 6:7(4), 0:6.

Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria's highest-ranking tennis player, is to face Pablo Carreño (Spain) at the Madrid Open tournament on Monday.

Having defeated Carreño a total of three times with no single loss, Dimitrov thus hopes to overcome the heavy blow he suffered in Istanbul on Sunday.

Grigor Dimitrov, the highest-ranking Bulgarian tennis player, apologized for his actions at the ATP Istanbul final on Sunday.

Dimitrov lost to Diego Schwartzman of Argentina after leading on him 7:6, 5:2.

Schwartzman, however, caught up with the Bulgarian, winning a tie-breaker in the second set and reaching the 6th game of the third set.

The highest-ranking Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov has been defeated 7:6, 6:7, 6:0 by  Argentina's Diego Schwartzman at the ATP Istanbul final.

Schwartzman, who is currently No 87 in the ATP rankings (Dimitrov is No 29), was playing at a final of a major ATP tournament for the first time.

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov proceeded to the final of the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open tennis tournament after defeating Ivo Karlovic from Croatia on Saturday.

Romanians Marius Copil and Adrian Ungur produced the day's surprise Thursday, defeating Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna in the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy doubles on the BNR Arenas of Bucharest and thus qualifying to the semifinal.

BUCHAREST - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic and Diego Schwartzman of Argentina qualified for the Bucharest ATP quarterfinal as they defeated Romania's Patrick Grigoriu and Costin Paval in the first round match on Wednesday, 6-4, 2-6, 10-6.

NEW YORK - Novak Djokovic is through to the 2nd round of the US Open after defeating Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-1 6-2 6-4 on Tuesday.

World number one will now face France's Paul-Henri Mathieu, who ousted Gilles Mueller of Luxembourg in five sets, 6-7(9) 7-5 7(8)-6 6(5)-7 6-1.

Photo AP,Darron Cummings