- Marcel Granollers
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Marcel Granollers Country Spain
Residence Barcelona, Spain Born April 12, 1986
Barcelona, SpainHeight 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Turned pro 2003 Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money $2,621,136 Singles Career record 76–95 Career titles 3 Highest ranking No. 27 (November 14, 2011) Current ranking No. 27 (November 14, 2011) Grand Slam results Australian Open 2R (2009, 2010) French Open 2R (2008, 2010, 2011) Wimbledon 2R (2009, 2010) US Open 3R (2011) Doubles Career record 125–84 Career titles 6 Highest ranking No. 5 (October 11, 2010) Current ranking No. 25 (August 3, 2011) Grand Slam Doubles results Australian Open 2R (2008) French Open 2R (2007, 2008, 2009) Wimbledon QF (2008) US Open SF (2010) Last updated on: August 3, 2011. Marcel Granollers i Pujol (born April 12, 1986, in Barcelona) is a professional tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 33 on August 1, 2011, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 5.
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Career
2006
Granollers made the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in 2006, but lost to Andrei Pavel. In the qualifying rounds, he beat Stéphane Robert, Konstantinos Economidis and Marco Chiudinelli.[1]
2007
In 2007, Granollers won the Naples and Rome Challengers for doubles with Flavio Cipolla, and the Maspalomas Challenger for doubles with Marc López. At the 2007 French Open, he made the second round of the men's doubles tournament with Feliciano López before they lost in three close sets to the number 4 seeds Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić, who won 7–5, 1–6, 6–4. He lost at the French and Wimbledon Championships both times in the second round of qualifying for the main draws.
2008
2008 saw Granollers qualify for the 2008 Australian Open Singles Draw, but lost to Evgeny Korolev 7–5, 6–2, 6–0 in the first round.[2] He reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco, Mexico, an International Series Gold tournament, before losing to José Acasuso 7–6, 6–3. On April 20, he won his first ATP singles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, defeating James Blake in the final. The previous day, he and Pablo Cuevas lost in the doubles final. Following Rafael Nadal's announcement that he would not play the Davis Cup Final at Argentina on November 21–23, Spain's Captain Emilio Sánchez announced that Marcel Granollers would replace Nadal. This was Granollers' first Davis Cup appearance, although he did not play any matches.
2009
In 2009, Granollers won three ATP doubles titles at the 2009 Brasil Open, the 2009 Copa Telmex, and the 2009 Kremlin Cup, teaming up with Tommy Robredo, Alberto Martín, and Pablo Cuevas respectively.
2010
In the 1st round of the 2010 Australian Open, Granollers pulled off a remarkable comeback when he recovered from 2 sets down against world no.8 and French Open finalist, Robin Söderling. He then lost to Alejandro Falla in the 2nd round.
2011
Granollers lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Novak Djokovic, and he didn't win consecutive matches until the 2011 Miami Masters, where he got to the fourth round [3]. In July, he beat Stanislas Wawrinka, Mikhail Youzhny, and Fernando Verdasco to win his first title of the year and his second career title at the 2011 Credit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad [4]. In the US Open, he reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, to reach a career-high singles ranking of World No.30.
ATP Career Finals
Singles: 4 (3–1)
Legend Grand Slam (0) ATP World Tour Finals (0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–1) ATP World Tour 250 Series (2–0) Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final Winner 1. 14 April 2008 Houston, United States
Clay James Blake
6–4, 1–6, 7–5 Runner-up 1. 7 November 2010 Valencia, Spain
Hard (i) David Ferrer
5–7, 3–6 Winner 2. 31 July 2011 Gstaad, Switzerland
Clay Fernando Verdasco
6–4, 3–6, 6–3 Winner 3. 5 November 2011 Valencia, Spain
Hard (i) Juan Mónaco
6–2, 4–6, 7–6(7–3) Doubles: 13 (6–7)
Legend Grand Slam (0) ATP World Tour Finals (0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–1) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–1) ATP World Tour 250 Series (6–5) Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score Runner-up 1. 14 April 2008 Houston, United States
Clay Pablo Cuevas
Ernests Gulbis
Rainer Schüttler
5–7, 6–7(3–7) Winner 1. 14 February 2009 Costa do Sauipe, Brazil
Clay Tommy Robredo
Lucas Arnold Ker
Juan Mónaco
6–4, 7–5 Winner 2. 22 February 2009 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Clay Alberto Martín
Nicolás Almagro
Santiago Ventura
6–3, 5–7, [10–8] Winner 3. 22 October 2009 Moscow, Russia
Hard (i) Pablo Cuevas
František Čermák
Michal Mertiňák
4–6, 7–5, [10–8] Runner-up 2. 8 November 2009 Valencia, Spain
Hard (i) Tommy Robredo
František Čermák
Michal Mertiňák
4–6, 3–6 Runner-up 3. 15 November 2009 Paris, France
Hard (i) Tommy Robredo
Daniel Nestor
Nenad Zimonjić
3–6, 4–6 Winner 4. 10 January 2010 Chennai, India
Hard Santiago Ventura
Lu Yen-Hsun
Janko Tipsarević
7–5, 6–2 Winner 5. 14 February 2010 Costa do Sauipe, Brazil (2)
Clay Pablo Cuevas
Łukasz Kubot
Oliver Marach
7–5, 6–4 Runner-up 4. 9 May 2010 Estoril, Portugal
Clay Pablo Cuevas
Marc López
David Marrero
7–6(7–1), 4–6, [4–10] Runner-up 5. 26 September 2010 Bucharest, Romania
Clay Santiago Ventura
Juan Ignacio Chela
Łukasz Kubot
2–6, 7–5, [11–13] Winner 6. 15 January 2011 Auckland, New Zealand
Hard Tommy Robredo
Johan Brunström
Stephen Huss
6–4, 7–6(8–6) Runner-up 6. 6 February 2011 Zagreb, Croatia
Hard (i) Marc López
Dick Norman
Horia Tecău
3–6, 4–6 Runner-up 7. 16 July 2011 Stuttgart, Germany
Clay Marc López
Jürgen Melzer
Philipp Petzschner
3–6, 4–6 Singles Performance Timeline
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.
Tournament 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 W–L Grand Slam Tournaments Australian Open A A 1R 2R 2R 1R 2–4 French Open A A 2R 1R 2R 2R 3–4 Wimbledon 1R A 1R 2R 2R 1R 2–5 US Open A A 1R 2R 2R 3R 4–4 Win–Loss 0–1 0–0 1–4 3–4 4–4 3–4 11–17 ATP Masters Series Indian Wells Masters A A A 1R A 1R 0–2 Miami Masters A A A A A 4R 3–1 Monte Carlo Masters A A A 2R 1R 1R 1–3 Rome Masters A A A 1R 1R Q1 0–2 Madrid Masters A A 2R 1R 1R 2R 2–4 Canada Masters A A A A A A 0–0 Cincinnati Masters A A A A A A 0–0 Shanghai Masters NMS A A 1R 0–1 Paris Masters A A 2R A 1R 1R 0–3 Hamburg Masters A A 1R NMS 0–1 Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 1–3 1–4 0–4 4–6 6–17 Career Statistics Titles–Finals 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 2–2 3–4 Year End Ranking 160 132 56 91 42 27 References
- ^ Wimbledon bio
- ^ ATP Vault
- ^ "Marcel Granollers". Association of Tennis Professionals. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Marcel-Granollers.aspx?t=pa. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "Granollers Beats Verdasco To Win Swiss Open". 31 July, 2011. http://www.tennisnow.com/News/Granollers-Beats-Verdasco-To-Win-Swiss-Open.aspx. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
External links
- Marcel Granollers at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Marcel Granollers at the International Tennis Federation
French Open boys' doubles champions 1981 Barry Moir / Michael Robertson • 1982 Pat Cash / John Frawley • 1983 Mark Kratzmann / Simon Youl • 1984 Luke Jensen / Patrick McEnroe • 1985 Petr Korda / Cyril Suk • 1986 Franco Davín / Guillermo Pérez-Roldán • 1987 Jim Courier / Jonathan Stark • 1988 Jason Stoltenberg / Todd Woodbridge • 1989 Johan Anderson / Todd Woodbridge • 1990 Sébastien Lareau / Sébastien Leblanc • 1991 Thomas Enqvist / Magnus Martinelle • 1992 Enrique Abaroa / Grant Doyle • 1993 Steven Downs / James Greenhalgh • 1994 Gustavo Kuerten / Nicolás Lapentti • 1995 Raemon Sluiter / Peter Wessels • 1996 Sébastien Grosjean / Olivier Mutis • 1997 José de Armas / Luis Horna • 1998 José de Armas / Fernando González • 1999 Irakli Labadze / Lovro Zovko • 2000 Marc López / Tommy Robredo • 2001 Alejandro Falla / Carlos Salamanca • 2002 Markus Bayer / Philipp Petzschner • 2003 Dudi Sela / Georgy Balazs • 2004 Pablo Andújar / Marcel Granollers • 2005 Emiliano Massa / Leonardo Mayer • 2006 Emiliano Massa / Kei Nishikori • 2007 Andrei Karatchenia / Thomas Fabbiano • 2008 Henri Kontinen / Christopher Rungkat • 2009 Marin Draganja / Dino Marcan • 2010 Duilio Beretta / Roberto Quiroz • 2011 Andrés Artuñedo / Roberto Carballes
Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Spanish male singles tennis players as of September 19, 2011
1. Rafael Nadal (2) · 2. David Ferrer (5
) · 3. Nicolás Almagro (11
) · 4. Feliciano López (21
) · 5. Fernando Verdasco (23
1)
6. Marcel Granollers (286) · 7. Pablo Andujar (47
1) · 8. Tommy Robredo (49
1) · 9. Juan Carlos Ferrero (51
7) · 10. Albert Montañes (56
)
Categories:- 1986 births
- Living people
- Catalan tennis players
- French Open junior champions
- Spanish male tennis players
- Sportspeople from Barcelona
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