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Grigor Dimitrov wins third futures tournament, becomes world number 581

Tue, Sep 23 2008 12:03 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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This year's junior champion at Wimbledon and US Open, Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, continued his spree of winning tournament after tournament, grabbing the trophy at the futures hard-court ITF tournament in Madrid on September 21 2008.

Futures tournaments are the bottom rung of the professional tennis ladder, with hundreds held across the world every year.

Dimitrov won the final match against Frenchman Ludovic Walter in two straight sets (6-4, 6-4) in 65 minutes. The win got Dimitrov 18 points for the ATP ranking and $1950 in prize money.

He is now world number 581, up from the 746th spot he occupied a week earlier. Of the Bulgarian tennis players, only Ivailo Traikov is ahead of Dimitrov on 418th position.

In total, Dimitrov now has five tournaments won this year. The first success came in May when he won the futures tournament on the clay of Valldoreix, also in Spain. The came the stunning success at Wimbledon and the US Open and on September 14 he was victorious at the hard-court ITF tournament in the Madrid suburb of Mostoles.

After grabbing the title at the US Open Dimitrov said he it was his last match in the juniors.

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