Bulgaria's Dimitrov Fails to Advance to US Open Quarterfinals

Sports | September 3, 2014, Wednesday // 07:36
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Dimitrov Fails to Advance to US Open Quarterfinals Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria hits a return to Gael Monfils of France on the ninth day of the 2014 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 02 September 2014. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov failed to make it to the US Open quarter-finals after losing to France's Ga?l Monfils 5:7, 6:7 (6), 5:7.

Bulgaria's star tennis player, seeded 7th, was defeated by the Frenchman, seeded 20th, in a match of 2 hours and 24 minutes, according to reports of the BBC News.

Dimitrov failed to avenge a first round US Open defeat to Monfils in 2011.

In April 2014, Dimitrov played Monfils in the semi-finals of Bucharest when the Frenchnman retired because of injury and Dimitrov won the tournament title ultimately.

Monfils moves on to play Switzerland's second-seeded Roger Federer.

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