Greg Rusedski and Annabel Croft argue if Grigor Dimitrov needs a psychologist. According to them:

"He's got to get to a stage where he actually believes what he's doing but the problem he's having is that he's missing long, he's missing wide, he's missing in the net. His confidence is shattered because every big point he's hitting double faults"

Dimitrov suffered a 6-2 6-2 hammering at the hands of Kevin Anderson in the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup in Toronto on Friday.

The Bulgarian, who lifted the biggest title of his career at the season-ending ATP Finals in London last November, has been struggling to replicate the same kind of form.

Now the 27-year-old world No 5 heads to Cincinnati where he will be defending 1000 points, having won the tournament last year and a early exit could damage his chances of a return to the O2.

"If I was Dimitrov's coach I would take him down the practice court and hit tons of serves tonight, tomorrow and the next day and just keep on drilling that area. His confidence is shattered because every big point he's hitting double faults and we've seen it for three matches in a row," Rusedski told Sky Sports Arena.

"He's got to get to a stage where he actually believes what he's doing but the problem he's having is that he's missing long, he's missing wide, he's missing in the net. There's not one miss he's having to deal with. He's just not got a clue what's going on."

But Croft disagreed with Rusedski's comments that it can all be solved on the practice courts, and argued the problem could be deeper. He has to keep practising it but it's not going to fix the problem. I think it needs a psychologist or a hypnotherapist.

Annabel Croft on Grigor Dimitrov's serve:

"It doesn't matter how much you practise serving, mentally when you get into that pressure situation you can never replicate it during a match so I think, as much as you keep saying it's technical, which it is, mentally it's not there either..."


Finally what do you think about the whole situation?