Fernando Verdasco

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.

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.

MELBOURNE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic has got off to a successful start to his Australian Open title defence with a routine 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 victory over Spaniard Fernando Verdasco on Tuesday.

In an excellent display, Djokovic - who has six Australian Open titles - won after two hours and 23 minutes of play and is now 10-4 head-to-head against Verdasco.

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MELBOURNE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic will begin his Australian Open title defence against Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

If he wins, Djokovic - a six-time champion in Melbourne - will face the winner of the match between Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin and a qualifier.

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DOHA - Serbia's Novak Djokovic will be defending his Doha title in the final of the ATP tennis tournament after saving five match points to knock out Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-3 in the semi-final on Friday.

In the final, he will face the winner of the match between Briton Andy Murray and Czech Tomas Berdych.

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ST. PETERSBURG - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has got off to a successful start at the St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament by beating Gastao Elias of Portugal 6-1, 6-2 in the opening round on Wednesday.

He will next face compatriot Dusan Lajovic, who beat Spaniard Fernando Verdasco on Tuesday.

The prize money in St. Petersburg is 923,550 dollars.

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ST. PETERSBURG - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic has got off to a successful start at the St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament by beating Fernando Verdasco of Spain 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the opening round late Tuesday.

Lajovic, who won after 110 minutes of play, is now 2-1 head-to-head against the Spaniard.