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 | Grigor Dimitrov with a first win of the Masters15-08-2011 |
The best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov is the second round of the tournament series "Masters" in Cincinnati (USA) with a prize of 2,592,000 dollars.
56 th in the world Dimitrov, who received "wild card" for participation in the main draw, beat the qualifier Marcel launch Ilhan (Turkey) 6-3, 7-5 in 72 minutes.
Bulgarians made two breakthrough which led to success - in the sixth game of the first set in the 11th game of the second set.
This was the first victory for Dimitrov in the main scheme of the tournament series "Masters".
20-year-old work haskovo 45 points and 17 040 dollars, and in the second round he will face No. 5 David Ferrer in the scheme (Spain).
29-year-old Ferrer is No. 6 in world rankings at the moment. He is 175 cm tall and weighs 73 kg. The Spaniard has 11 career titles and has earned 11,272,218 dollars in his career. They have not met before.