Marcos Baghdatis

Patrick Mouratoglou, the French tennis expert who discovered and coached Greek tennis sensation Stefanos Tsitsipas, announced last month the opening of a Mouratoglou Tennis Center Jumeirah in Dubai.

In collaboration with the prestigious Jumeirah hotel group, the Mouratoglou Tennis Center opened its doors on December 15 marking the beginning of Mouratoglou's international expansion.

DUBAI - Serbian tennis player Filip Krajinovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Dubai ATP tournament after beating Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in the second round on Wednesday.

Remarkably, Baghdatis defeated Serbia's Viktor Troicki in the opening round.

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Grigor Dimitrov will come out of the second round of the Australian Open Cup against American Mackenzie McDonald again on the Main Court. The meeting will be on Wednesday (January 17th) and is expected to begin at 10:00 am Bulgarian time.

The match is the first in the evening session and will begin after two women's matches and the second match in the Rafael Nadal tournament.

Grigor Dimitrov played a very strong game and devastated his opponent Marcos Baghdatis on his way to his four consecutive reach of the third round of Wimbledon. He struck the Cypriot player for one hour and forty two minutes with 6:3, 6:2, 6:1.

ISTANBUL - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has got off to a successful start at the Istanbul ATP tennis tournament after beating Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 7-5, 6-4 in the opening round on Tuesday.

Troicki, who won after 95 minutes of play, is now 2-3 head-to-head against Baghdatis.

Tanjug file photo, T. Valic

Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria has kept his 18th place in the ATP ranking, the association's website shows.

Dimitrov returned to the world's Top 20 after picking up this summer, following more than a year of heavy defeats which caused him to sing down the world ranking.

Lucas Pouille and Richard Gasquett, both from France, are No 17 and 19, respectively.

CHENGDU - Serbia's Viktor Troicki is through to the quarter-finals of the ATP tennis tournament in Chengdu, China, after beating Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Troicki won after an hour and 48 minutes of play and is now 2-5 head-to-head against Baghdatis.

He will next face Kevin Anderson of South Africa.

The prize money in Chengdu is 840,915 dollars.

CHENGDU - Serbia's Viktor Troicki is through to the second round of the ATP tennis tournament in Chengdu, China, after beating young Norwegian Casper Ruud 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) on Wednesday following a rain delay.

The match had been interrupted on Tuesday as Troicki lead 6-3, 3-2.

The Serbian won the match after a total of 78 minutes of play.

Like a schoolkid chastised by a teacher for texting in class, a player at the US Open was caught using his cellphone during a changeover and was admonished by the chair umpire.

Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, the runner-up at the 2006 Australian Open, got in trouble Sunday while losing his fourth-round match against 10th-seeded Gael Monfils of France 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.

Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria's highest-ranking tennis player, is to face Pablo Carreño (Spain) at the Madrid Open tournament on Monday.

Having defeated Carreño a total of three times with no single loss, Dimitrov thus hopes to overcome the heavy blow he suffered in Istanbul on Sunday.