Gilles Muller

Romanian tennis player Marius Copil qualified on Friday for the semifinals of the ATP tournament in Sofia, featuring overall prizes of 501,345 euro, after defeating Luxembourg Gilles Muller, third seed, 6-4, 6-4.

Grigor Dimitrov will be placed under No. 7 at the  US Open, which will be held in New York from 28 August to 10 September. The race is from the Grand Slam.

The main scheme of the US Open. In front of each player's name, it is indicated under which number will be placed in the tournament:

Sam Querrey made the greatest sensation of Wimbledon this year after beating current champion Andy Murray in the quarter-finals. The American secured an impressive five-set victory - 3:6, 6:4, 7:6(4), 6:1, 6:1. He will now fight for his place in the final with Marin Cilic, who passed through Gilles Muller. 

MONTE CARLO - The Serbian duo of Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki has got off to a successful start in the men's doubles event of the Monte Carlo ATP tennis tournament after beating the Luxembourgish-French pairing of Gilles Muller and Gilles Simon 7-5, 6-3 in the opening round on Monday.

INDIAN WELLS - Serbians Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki have ended their men's doubles campaign at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells tennis tournament after losing 3-6, 6-2, 10-6 to Raven Klaasen of South Africa and Rajeev Ram of the US in the quarter-finals.

SYDNEY - Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki has failed to qualify for what would have been his third consecutive final at the Sydney ATP tournament after losing 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) to Gilles Muller of Luxembourg in Friday's semi-final.

Troicki won the tournament twice in the past two seasons.

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SYDNEY - Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki is through to the semi-finals of the Sydney ATP tournament after German Philipp Kohlschreiber retired from their match on Thursday due to injury.

In a bid to reach another final, title defender Troicki will face Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.

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PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, has got off to a successful start of his title defence at the Paris Masters after beating Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 6-3, 6-4 in round two late Wednesday.

Djokovic won after 82 minutes of play and is now 4-0 head-to-head against Muller.

He will next face Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.

An article published on the website of ATP on Monday focuses on the Garanti Koza Sofia Open which is taking place at the Arena Armeec hall in the Bulgarian capital from Monday to Sunday.

For the first time in history, Bulgaria hosts a tournament from the ATP World Tour.

The first edition of Garanti Koza Sofia Open began on Monday and will last until Sunday, with the Arena Armeec hall being the venue for the matches.

The draw took place on Saturday, qualifications followed on Saturday and Sunday and the matches from the first round began on Monday.