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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 51 on May 26, 2008, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 51.
[edit] Career
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]
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.
2008 saw Grannolers 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 20th, 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.
[edit] ATP Tour titles (1)
[edit] Singles (1)
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| ATP Tour (1) |
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[edit] Doubles runner-up (1)
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