Marcel Granollers

Marcel Granollers

Country	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Born	(1986-04-12) April 12, 1986 (age 26) Barcelona, Spain
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb; 12.1 st)
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. 23 (February 20, 2012)
Current ranking	No. 23 (May 21, 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2009, 2010, 2012)
French Open	2R (2008, 2010, 2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2009, 2010)
US Open	3R (2011)
Doubles
Career record	125–84
Career titles	7
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) is a professional tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 27 on November 14, 2011, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 5.

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)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
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: 16 (7–9)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	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
Runner-up	8.	4 March 2012	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Marc López	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	9.	29 April 2012	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Marc López	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6-2, 6-77-9, [8-10]
Winner	7.	20 May 2012	Rome, Italy	Clay	Marc López	Łukasz Kubot Janko Tipsarević	6-3, 6-2

Singles Performance Timeline

Current through 2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

References

External links

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v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Spanish male singles tennis players as of May 14, 2011 Rafael Nadal (3 ) David Ferrer (5 ) Nicolás Almagro (12 ) Feliciano López (15 ) Fernando Verdasco (19 1) Marcel Granollers (26 2) Pablo Andujar (39 1) Juan Carlos Ferrero (49 ) Albert Ramos (54 2) Albert Montañés (63 1)