Fernando Verdasco

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 second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas had to fight hard before booking his place in the Sofia Open quarter-finals, securing a 7-6(5) 6-4 win over feisty German Jan-Lennard Struff on Thursday having enjoyed the backing of the Bulgarian crowd.

"For the first time I play as if I was at home," said 20-year-old Tsitsipas, who reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open last month.

Staged at the Arena Armeec Sofia, the ATP 250 event in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia has been in the calendar since 2016, with Roberto Bautista Agut, Grigor Dimitrov and Mirza Basic lifting the trophy in the first three editions. As was expected, Grigor Dimitrov was in the spotlight every year there, playing or not, as by far the most accomplished Bulgarian male player ever an

Grigor Dimitrov began with a victory at the Masters Series in Toronto (Cannes, $ 5.32 million). In the II round, the Bulgarian, who rightly rest on the start of the main circuit, made a 4:6, 6:2, 7:6(5) turn against Fernando Verdasco (ESP). On the stands at the Rogers Center was also his coach Daniel Valverdu, which finally ended the speculation of parting with the Venezuelan specialist.

Grigor Dimitrov could not surpass his best performance at Roland Garros and again got eliminated in the third round of the second Grand Slam tennis tournament. The best Bulgarian tennis player lost 6:7 (4), 2:6, 4:6 to Fernando Verdasco (ESP) and ended his participation in the first week of the French Open in Paris.

Alexander Zverev and Grigor Dimitrov both recovered from slow starts to book their places in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday.

Third seed Zverev was a set down against Giles Muller before recovering strongly in the second and third sets for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory.

World number four Grigor Dimitrov slumped to a shock 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 6-3 defeat to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in his opening match of the ATP Indian Wells Masters on March 10.

Fernando Verdasco (Spain) is the first rival of Grigor Dimitrov in the Tennis Masters Series in Indian Wells (US $ 7.97 million). The 34-year-old former No. 7 in the world defeated Guido Pella (Arge) in Round 1 with 6:2, 1:6, 6:2 and arranged a meeting with the Bulgarian No. 3 who rests on the start of the main scheme.

PARIS - Serbian tennis veteran Nenad Zimonjic and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco are out of the Roland Garros men's doubles tournament after losing 6-7 (3-7), 7-5, 6-3 to the Mexican-US pairing of Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young in the semi-finals on Thursday.

PARIS - The Serbian duo of Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki is out of the Roland Garros men's doubles tournament after suffering a 6-3, 7-6 (7-0) defeat to the British-Brazilian pairing of Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares on Tuesday.

Serbian Nenad Zimonjic and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco will face Romania's Florin Mergea and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi.