Fabio Fognini

Romanian-German double Horia Tecau/Kevin Krawietz on Tuesday progressed to the men's doubles round of 16 at the 4,845,025-USD Western and Southern Open tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, the US, after defeating Argentina's Federico Delbonis/Diego Schwartzman double 7-5 6-3. N.5 Tecau-Krawietz prevailed in an hour and 15 minutes.

The 29-year-old Stara Pazova native defeated Hungarian qualifier Attila Balazs 7-5 , 7-5, in the 112 minutes long Sunday's singles final in Umag to claim his maiden trophy on the ATP 250 Tournament.
Hungarian won semi-final against Laslo Djere, thus preventing Serbian final, but Lajovic won the title, avenging his friend.

Grigor Dimitrov kept his place among the top 10 tennis players in the world rankings, although he dropped off in the first round of his debut at the ATP 500 in Vienna. The Bulgarian has an asset of 3335 points, and this week he will play at the Masters in Paris, according to bTV.

Grigor Dimitrov won his third match for the season against Misha Zverev and qualified for the 1/2-finals of one of his favorite tennis tournaments - in Stockholm ( EUR 589,185). In the third round, tonight the number 1 Bulgarian defeated with 6:3, 6:4 the German-born Russian representative for just over an hour.

ROME - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has been knocked out of the Rome Masters tournament after losing to young German Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-4 in the second round on Wednesday.

Zverev is now 2-1 head-to-head against Troicki and will next face Italian Fabio Fognini, who beat world number one Andy Murray late Tuesday.

Tanjug file photo, T. Valic

SHANGHAI - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, beat Italian Fabio Fognini in the opening round of the Shanghai Masters Tuesday after being sidelined for a month due to injury.

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.

BARCELONA - Serbia's Viktor Troicki is through to the third round of the Barcelona ATP tennis tournament after beating Hungary's Marton Fucsovics 6-4, 1-6, 6-0 on Wednesday.

After unexpectedly losing a set to the little-known qualifier, Troicki justified the role of favourite and will next face Italy's Fabio Fognini, who defeated Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 3-6, 6-0, 6-1.

Bulgaria's top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov proceeded on Monday to the second round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome.

Dimitrov defeated Jerzy Janowicz from Poland with 6:3, 7:6 (4) in a match, which lasted just over an hour and a half.

The Bulgarian achieved one break in the first set and prevailed in the tiebreak of the second set, claiming the final victory.

Bulgaria's top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov proceeded to the second round of the men's singles competition at the Mutua Madrid Open.

Dimitrov defeated on Tuesday Donald Young from the USA with 6:4, 3:0 after retirement of the US player in the second set due to an injury.