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 | Grisha begins with Monfils of US Open, flowers with a slight draw25-08-2011 |
The best Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov will face world number 7 Gael Monfils in the first round of last year for the Grand Slam US Open. Our most powerful representative of women Tsvetana Pironkova had better luck in the draw in the first round and will face Frenchwoman Virginie Raza, which is 74th in world rankings. Dimitrov will be a hard task to face Monfils seventh in the world, this will be the first meeting between the two. If he can overcome Frenchman, Grisha will be lighter rivals in the next two rounds, but his task against Monfils is certainly extremely difficult. Pironkova will do to fight for his first victory against Raza, and so far she has lost both matches between them. Both matches between them have played on hard courts. If successful than Raza, Pironkova will face the winner of the match between Chinese Shuai Peng and American Varvara Lepchenko.