Lukáš Rosol

SHANGHAI - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has got off to a successful start at the Shanghai Masters ATP tennis tournament after beating Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-4 in the opening round on Monday.

Troicki, who won after 67 minutes of play, is now 3-3 head-to-head against Rosol thanks to a third consecutive victory over the Czech.

Bulgaria's top ranking male tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov, will be seeking to record his first victory against Rafael Nadal at the Swiss Indoors tournament, which is taking place in Basel.

In the first round played on Tuesday, Dimitrov defeated the Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky with 6:3, 6:4, proceeding to the second round, which will take place on Wednesday.

The Spanish tennis player Guillermo Garcia-Lopez has won this year's edition of the 439,405 euro-worth BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy tournament to the Cezch Jiri Vesely 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (13/11) in the singles final on Sunday at the Bucharest Arenele BNR.

Photo: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES Photo

BUCHAREST - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic failed to qualify for the Bucharest ATP quarterfinal as he lost the Wednesday match to Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

BUCHAREST - Serbia's tennis player Dusan Lajovic has reached the second round of the ATP tournament in Bucharest, after defeating Jurgen Zopp of Estonia 7-5, 6-1 on Tuesday.

Lajovic outplayed the world's No. 157 for about an hour. In his bid for the quarterfinals, he will take on fourth seed Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic, who skipped the first round.

VIENNA - Serbia's Victor Troicki defeated victor Estrella from the Dominican Republic 6-0 6-3 in the 1st round of an ATP tournament in Vienna on Tuesday.

His opponent in the 2nd round will be the winner of the match between Czech Lukas Rosol and Slovak Lukas Lacki.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic (archive)