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 | Grisha comes today against Tsonga, Tsveti against Zvonareva tomorrow23-06-2011 |
The best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will play this afternoon against 12th in the scheme Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) in the second round of Open tennis in the UK.
Match of Wimbledon is second on court No. 1 and likely will begin after 17:00 CET.
20-year-old Dimitrov passed the first round of competition for the first time in his career after yesterday's success over German qualifier Cedric-Marcel Steben 7-5, 7-5, 7-6 (5).
Tsonga did reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon last season.
The best Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova will hand out tonight to court number 15 in the fourth game of the program for his first game of doubles.
Pironkova and her South African partner Chanel Sheepers will face ninth-seeded Julia Gyorges (Germany) and Maria Kirilenko (Russia).
Singles Pironkova will seek revenge tomorrow for his loss last year of polufinanal Vera Zvonareva (Russia).
The second scheme Zvonareva had problems yesterday in the second set against Elena Vesnina compatriot, but success came to 6-1, 7-6 (5), although twice behind a breakthrough in a 4:5 Vesnina served for the set .