Pablo Cuevas

For now, all three behave just like Alexander the Great on the hill above Asia Minor, when the sages said that the king of Asia would become the one who untied the oxhide knot they had tied.

Grigor Dimitrov qualified without a game for the third round of the US Open after it became clear that Borna Ćorić had given up due to a muscle injury.

For the first time in history, Greek tennis has celebrated a twin triumph in the same weekend, as Maria Sakkari won the Rabat Grand Prix in Morocco on Saturday and a day later Stefanos Tsitsipas landed the Estoril Open trophy in Portugal.

Grigor Dimitrov, the 20th seed, needed four sets to come through against Argentina's Pablo Cuevas, winning 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-5, reported EU Sport.

The Bulgarian benefited from the strength of his serve, with a 74% percentage on his first serve, and winning 84% of those points.

Grigor Dimitrov reaches the 2nd round of the Australian Open after beating Janko Tipsarevic in 4 set, reported tennistonic.com

Grigor Dimitrov produced a number of moments worthy of the highlight reel during a season filled with career milestones, including a year-end No. 3 finish in the Emirates ATP Rankings, triumph at the Nitto ATP Finals and his first ATP World Masters 1000 title at the Western & Southern Open.

MONTE CARLO - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has suffered an early exit from the Monte Carlo ATP Masters tennis tournament after losing to Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-0 in the opening round on Monday.

World number 27 Cuevas will next face Portugal's Joao Souza.

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BEIJING - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has suffered an early exit at the Beijing ATP tennis tournament after losing to Fabio Fognini of Italy 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the opening round on Tuesday.

Fognini, who came from 4-2 behind in the third set to win the match after nearly two hours of play, is now 4-2 head-to-head against Troicki following a fourth consecutive victory over the Serbian.

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.

The highest ranking Bulgarian male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov proceeded to the quarterfinals of the Apia International tournament which is taking place in Sydney.

In a match from the second round on Wednesday, Dimitrov defeated Pablo Cuevas from Uruguay with 7:6 (2), 6:4.

Thus the Bulgarian recorded his second victory against Cuevas in their third encounter.