Lukas 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.

For the first time in history, Bulgaria hosts a tournament from the ATP World Tour.

The first edition of Garanti Koza Sofia Open began on Monday and will last until Sunday, with the Arena Armeec hall being the venue for the matches.

The draw took place on Saturday, qualifications followed on Saturday and Sunday and the matches from the first round began on Monday.

The tickets for the first ever ATP tournament to be held in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia will go on sale on Wednesday afternoon at 17:00 EET.

The prices of the tickets, which can be purchased in the network of Eventim (online at eventim.bg), range between BGN 10 and BGN 80.

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.

Bulgarian top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov defeated on Sunday Lukas Rosol (Czech Republic) at the Western and Southern Open tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The game of three sets, which lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes, ended 6:2, 3:6, 6:3.

Dimitrov will have to face in his next match either Vasek Pospisil (Canada) or Denis Kudla (US).

Romanian Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna defeated Czech Lukas Rosol and Ukrainian Sergey Stakhovsky 2-6, 6-4, 10-8 on Tuesday to qualify to the doubles quarterfinals of the 1,574,640 euros ATP tournament of Halle (Germany).

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

Romanians Marius Copil and Adrian Ungur produced the day's surprise Thursday, defeating Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna in the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy doubles on the BNR Arenas of Bucharest and thus qualifying to the semifinal.

BUCHAREST - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic and Diego Schwartzman of Argentina qualified for the Bucharest ATP quarterfinal as they defeated Romania's Patrick Grigoriu and Costin Paval in the first round match on Wednesday, 6-4, 2-6, 10-6.

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.