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 | Grigor Dimitrov against South African in the second round14-06-2011 |
The best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will play sixth-seeded Kevin Anderson (South Africa) in the second round of the tournament on grass in the English town of Eastbourne with € 462,675 prize fund.
20-year-old Dimitrov beat yesterday involved a "wild card representative of the hosts Daniel Evans with 2:6, 7:6 (5), 6:4, and remained in 6800 euros and 20 points for the ATP rankings, in which occupies 64 th place.
203 centimeter Anderson did today beat qualifier Alexander Slabinski (UK) with 7:5, 6:3 for 74 minutes, having scored 16 aces and did not give any opportunity to break his opponent in the match.
25-year-old South African is 38 and in the world rankings at the moment. He has one career title in the tournament on hard courts in Johannesburg in February and has earned U.S. $ 1069639 in prize money as a professional now.
They have one match each other in tournaments on clay in Todi (Italy) in 2009, when Anderson won 6:3, 6:4.