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Tournament starts, "Dr. Todor Todorov" 29.11.2011

With two days of qualifications on Tuesday and Wednesday starting the 38th edition of the tournament for men "Academic", which from 2011 will now be named after the doyen of Bulgarian tennis Dr. Todor Todorov.

For the second year running the race, "Dr. Todor Todorov," organized by the BTF and Television, will go with the sponsorship support of 'akto Electronics "- official representative of the" Sharpe "and air conditioning systems in Bulgaria. The tournament will be held from 29 November to 4 December in the Metropolitan Hall "Sofia" and the prize money, which will divide the participants is 5000 Euro.

Chief Judge of the race Lubomir Badinski told details about the new scheme of conduct. From this year ten players will be placed, four will go through the qualifications and will receive two "wild card".

The first four are placed Tihomir Grozdanov, Todor Enev, Georgi Yordanov and Ilia Kushev, the first three of them are ranking in the world rankings of the ATP. Among the bidders for participation are more Ivaylo Traykov, Marcel Radev Trendafilov Peter and others.

Meetings of the main scheme starts on Thursday at 10.00 am. One semi-final on Saturday and Sunday from 13.00 am will be broadcast live on Television. The other semifinal on Saturday, as well as meetings of the master plan on Thursday and Friday will be broadcast on TV and online Sportmedia www.tennis24.bg.