Marcel Granollers

Country	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Date of birth	April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 23)
Place of birth	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	$1,240,062
Singles
Career record	33–49
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 44 (February 16, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 91 (December 7, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2r (2009)
French Open	2r (2008)
Wimbledon	2r (2009)
US Open	2r (2009)
Doubles
Career record	56–46
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 25 (December 7, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2008)
French Open	2R (2007, 2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	QF (2008)
US Open	2R (2007)
Last updated on: November 9, 2009.

Marcel Granollers Pujol (born April 12, 1986, in Barcelona) is a professional tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. As of June 20, 2007, Granollers Pujol was ranked number 184 in the singles rankings. He reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 44 on February 16, 2009, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 51. As of late 2008, Granollers is the second-youngest of the many Spanish players in the ATP Top 100 (after Rafael Nadal).

Contents 1 Career 1.1 2006 1.2 2007 1.3 2008 1.4 2009 2 Career Finals (5) 2.1 ATP Masters Series finals 2.1.1 Doubles 2.2 Singles (1) 2.2.1 Wins (1) 2.3 Doubles (6) 2.3.1 Wins (3) 2.3.2 Runners-up (3) 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] 2006

Granollers Pujol 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]

[edit] 2007

In 2007, Granollers Pujol won the Napoli 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.

[edit] 2008

2008 saw Granollers Pujol 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(2), 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 in November 21-23, Spain's Captain Emilio Sánchez announced that Marcel Granollers would replace Nadal. This was Granollers' first Davis Cup appearance, although he didn't play any matches.

[edit] 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 Martin, and Pablo Cuevas respectivley.

[edit] Career Finals (5)

[edit] ATP Masters Series finals

[edit] Doubles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
Runner-up	2009	Paris	Tommy Robredo	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjic	6–3, 6–4

[edit] Singles (1)

[edit] Wins (1)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (1)

Titles by Surface Hard (0) Clay (1) Grass (0) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	14 April 2008	Houston, United States	Clay	James Blake	6–4, 1–6, 7–5

[edit] Doubles (6)

[edit] Wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	14 February 2009	Costa Do Sauipe, Brasil	Clay	Tommy Robredo	Lucas Arnold Ker Juan Monaco	6–4, 7–5
2.	22 February 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Alberto Martín	Nicolás Almagro Santiago Ventura	6–3, 5–7, [10-8]
3.	October 22, 2009	Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Pablo Cuevas	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4–6, 7–5, [10-8]

[edit] Runners-up (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	14 April 2008	Houston, United States	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	Ernests Gulbis Rainer Schüttler	7–5, 7–6(3)
2.	8 November 2009	Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Tommy Robredo	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6–4, 6–3
3.	15 November 2009	Paris, France	Hard (i)	Tommy Robredo	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–4

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marcel Granollers at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Marcel Granollers at the International Tennis Federation

v • d • e French Open boys' doubles champions 2009 Marin Draganja / Dino Marcan  • 2008 Henri Kontinen / Christopher Rungkat  • 2007 Andrei Karatchenia / Thomas Fabbiano  • 2006 Emiliano Massa / Kei Nishikori  • 2005 Emiliano Massa / Leonardo Mayer  • 2004 Pablo Andújar / Marcel Granollers  • 2003 Dudi Sela / Georgy Balazs  • 2002 Markus Bayer / Philipp Petzschner  • 2001 Alejandro Falla / Carlos Salamanca  • 2000 Marc López / Tommy Robredo  • 1999 Irakli Labadze / Lovro Zovko  • 1998 Jose de Armas / Fernando González  • 1997 Jose de Armas / Luis Horna  • 1996 Sébastien Grosjean / Olivier Mutis  • 1995 Raemon Sluiter / Peter Wessels  • 1994 Gustavo Kuerten / Nicolas Lapentti  • 1993 Steven Downs / James Greenhalgh  • 1992 Enrique Abaroa / Grant Doyle  • 1991 Thomas Enqvist / Magnus Martinelle  • 1990 Sébastien Lareau / Sebastien Leblanc  • 1989 Johan Anderson / Todd Woodbridge  • 1988 Jason Stoltenberg / Todd Woodbridge  • 1987 Jim Courier / Jonathan Stark  • 1986 Franco Davín / Guillermo Pérez-Roldán  • 1985 Petr Korda / Cyril Suk  • 1984 Luke Jensen / Patrick McEnroe  • 1983 Mark Kratzmann / Simon Youl  • 1982 Pat Cash / John Frawley  • 1981 Barry Moir / Michael Robertson

Persondata
NAME	Granollers, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Granollers, Marcel
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	1986-4-12
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona, Spain
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH