Bulgaria’s Top Tennis Player Drops 3 Places in ATP Ranking

Bulgaria's top male tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov, lost three positions in the ATP ranking this week and landed on the 115th place. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s tennis star, Grigor Dimitrov, has dropped several positions at the ATP ranking and has landed at the 115th place.

After reaching record-high 112th position at the beginning of November, this week the 19-year-old Bulgarian dropped several places and is currently 115th, with 491 points, collected from 19 tennis tournaments.

Dimitrov will have the opportunity to move forward in the ranking again.This week, he will participate in the EUR 42,500 ATP Challenger in Aachen, Germany, where he is Seed 4.

In the first round on Tuesday, the Bulgarian will face last year’s champion, the 26-year-old American Rajeev Ram.

Ram currently ranks 158th but reached the 78th place a year ago.

Grigor will also participate in the EUR 106,500 ATP Challenger in Helsinki, Finland, which begins November 22. It will feature nine tennis players that are currently in the top 100 - Lukasz Kubot, Tobias Kamke, Marco Chiudinelli, Somdev Devvarman, Teymuraz Gabashvili, Adrian Mannarino, Dudi Sela, Mischa Zverev and Michal Przysiezny.

The main draw will feature 14 participants that are in the top 120. This tournamentis very important for tennis players that are currently between top 100 and top 120 because could manage to get the necessary ranking points and land in the main draw for Australian Open next year.

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