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Valentin side Orlin Stanoychev of state tennis10-03-2011 |
Defending champion Valentin qualified for the quarterfinals of the national tennis tournament in hall with a prize fund 2000 euro. Seeded first Dimov made 10 aces and beat the former first racket of Bulgaria - Orlin Stanoychev with 6:7 (4), 6:4, 6:2 in the controversial match after 1:55
hours of playing.
39-year-old Stanoychev, which is the first Bulgarian reached the top 100 world ranking of ATP was equivalent to the current Bulgarian national to the middle of the second set, but then said the word fatigue.
In the first set there was no breakthrough and it was tiebreaker, in which Stanoychev failed to win after having 4 consecutive points 3:4. In the fifth game of the second set Dimov achieved the first breakthrough in the match until the end and had no problems in his own submission.
Defending champion samples at the start of the decisive third set, and in the second game Stanoychev missed his only opportunity to break his opponent and lead with 2:0.
Dimov dominated by the end of the meeting and after a new breakthrough in the seventh game he closed the match in their own submission.
Stanoychev that implements 11 aces in the match, winning the last title in the hall in 1996 year.
Dimov will play in the quarterfinals against another former national - question number 6 Ilia Kushev. 30-year-old qualifier beat Vadim Chergov with 6:1, 7:5.
The other main contender for the title and the No. 2-seeded Ivaylo Traykov crashed involved a "wild card champion and 18 in Hall Stefan Trifonov with 6:2, 6:0. Next rival will be Traykov Dragomir Kozarov which remove surprising fifth placed Daniel Tarpov with 6:4, 6:4.
In the second round dropped anotherof questions - number 8 in the scheme Ivelin Kolev, who lost to qualifier Daniel Angelov 6:7 (3), 1:6. Angelov will meet in the quarterfinals No. 3-seeded Alexander Lazov who deal with difficult Rumen Gospodinov with 4:6, 6:1, 6:4. The last quarterfinal will oppose Seraphim Grozev against Marcel Radev. The fourth-seeded Grozev beat Georgi Krastev with 6:4, 4:6, 6:2, and seeded seventh Radev beat qualifier Borislav Bonchev 6:3, 7:5