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LONDON - Serbia's top-ranked male tennis player Novak Djokovic beat Belgian David Goffin 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday to clinch a semi-final spot at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

The five-time champion won after 65 minutes of play and is now 5-0 head-to-head against Goffin, a stand-in for the injured Frenchman Gael Monfils.

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LONDON - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic beat Canadian Milos Raonic 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5) late Tuesday to secure a semi-final spot at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

Winning the match after 2 hours and 16 minutes of play, Djokovic is now 8-0 head-to-head against Raonic.

PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, is out of the Paris Masters after losing to Marin Cilic 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) in the quarter-finals on Friday in what was his first-ever defeat to the Croatian after 14 wins.

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BELGRADE - After all the battles and hard graft chasing the world number one spot, Briton Andy Murray arrived there without hitting a ball on Saturday as Milos Raonic pulled out of their Paris Masters semi-final due to a leg injury, Reuters reported.

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PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, is out of the Paris Masters after losing to Marin Cilic 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) in the quarter-finals on Friday in what was his first-ever defeat to the Croatian after 14 wins.

SHANGHAI - Serbia's Viktor Troicki is through to the third round of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament after beating Spaniard Rafael Nadal 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) on Wedneday.

Troicki, who had lost all five of his past encounters with Nadal, won after 94 minutes of play and will next face the winner of the tie between American Taylor Fritz and Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut.

Despite the loss to Andy Murray on Sunday, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria has moved two spots up the ranking of professional tennis.

With 1990 points, he is now No 16, behind Richard Gasquet (France) and above Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain).

Dimitrov was defeated in a tense China Open final, but had managed to oust top players such as Nadal earlier during the week.

Bulgaria's highest-ranking tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov, dashed his hope of winning his first major title in two years after losing to the world's No 2 Andy Murray.

Dimitrov played the ninth final in his professional career and the third one for 2016, in an effort to grab his first title at a big tournament since October 2014. 

The best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will play at the final of the China Open. His rival in the semi-final Milos Raonic has withdrawn due to injury.

Dimitrov will face Scottish Andy Murray in the fight for the title.

Murray beat Spaniard David Ferrer in the second semi-final (6:2, 6:3).

Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will face Milos Raonic in the semi-final of the China Open. The match is at 16:00 Bulgarian time.

Dimitrov reached the semi-final after a remarkable victory over Spain's Rafael Nadal (6:2, 6:4). He earned his first victory against the Spaniard after eight matches by playing at a very high level.