Ivan Dodig

Tennis fever shakes the Balkans, a clash of neighbors and great tennis friends is one of the topics of the day in the tennis world.
It is a clash between two teams that have had the opportunity to win the famous "Salad Bowl" a total of three times in history.

The pairing made up of Romanian tennis player Horia Tecau and Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer on Saturday qualified for the final of the doubles event of the ATP 500 Swiss Indoors Basel tournament, with total prize money worth 2,082,655 euro, after scoring 6-7 (3), 7-6 (3), 10-5 against pair Ivan Dodig (Croatia)/Filip Polasek (Slovakia). The fourth seeded couple won after about two hours.

Romanian-Dutch duo Horia Tecau/Jean-Julien Rojer advanced on Wednesday to the round of sixteen of the men's doubles event of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai, featuring total prizes of 7,473,620 US dollars, following their 7-5, 6-3 victory against the pair made up of Diego Schwartzman (Argentina)/Joao Sousa (Portugal).

Grigor Dimitrov has dropped out of the Indian Wells masters, Tennis Cafe reported, citing the manager of the tennis player Georgi Stoimenov. The cause is again pain in the shoulder.

The Bulgarian, 28th in the world, has already missed the Rotterdam and Acapulco tournaments because of the trauma, but was expected to return to the court for the Indian Wells race.

Bulgarian top tennis player Grigod Dimitrov has defeated Croatia's Ivan Dodig in a TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open match.

Dimitrov has made it to the semifinals by defeating Dodig 6-4, 6-3, adding 90 points to his result in the ATP Rankings.

To find his way into the final match, he will have to face either Pablo Cuevas (Uruguay) or Thomaz Bellucci.

INDIAN WELLS - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Poland's Marcin Matkowski failed to qualify for the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells as they were defeated by Canada's Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock of the U.S. in the match early on Saturday (CET), 6-4, 3-6, 10-6.

TORONTO - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor failed to reach the final of the Rogers Cup men's doubles event, after losing to Brazilian-Austrian duo of Bruno Soares and Alexander Peja 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) Sunday morning CET.

PARIS – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic organized an exhibition match on the Roland Garros’ central court Saturday and the proceeds will be used as aid for the people badly hit by the recent floods in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

It started raining on the center court at one moment but it did not stop the tennis players from continuing the humanitarian activity.

BARCELONA - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor qualified for the Barcelona WTA men's doubles final as they defeated Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo of Brazil in the Saturday match, 6-4, 6-4.

BARCELONA - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and his Canadian colleague Daniel Nestor qualified for the Barcelona WTA men's doubles semifinal as they defeated India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the Friday match, 6-7 (7-9), 7-5, 10-7.