The most successful Bulgarian tennis player in history, Grigor Dimitrov, begins his participation in the Masters 1000 tournament in Miami, Florida, today, BNR reported.
Last year's finalist is seeded 14th in the main draw and was resting in the first round. On Friday, Dimitrov will face the Italian Federico Cina, who received a “wild card“.
The match is the first on the program on the “Butch Buchholz“ court and should start at 5 p.m. our time.
Naturally, Grigor and 17-year-old China, who is No. 441 in the ATP rankings, have not met before. Last Sunday, the Italian lost in the final of a challenger in Greece to another Bulgarian - Dimitar Kuzmanov.
If successful, the 33-year-old Dimitrov will play in the third round with the winner of the match between No. 22 in the schedule Karen Khachanov from Russia and Australian Nick Kyrgios.
The national team for the “Davis“ Pyotr Nesterov was eliminated in the round of 16 of the clay challenger in Merida, Mexico, which is in the 75th category.
He lost to the second seeded Chilean Cristian Garin 4:6, 3:6 after an hour and 35 minutes of play.
The first set was completely even, but Nesterov allowed a breakthrough in the final, tenth game.
In the next set, the two exchanged two breaks. In the ninth, however, Garin broke again for 5:3 and then managed to close the match.
Nesterov leaves Merida with 6 points for the world ranking, where he is currently in 448th place.