| Country | Spain |
|---|---|
| Residence | Barcelona, Spain |
| Born | April 12, 1986 Barcelona, Spain |
| Height | 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 27 on November 14, 2011, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 5.
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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]
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
| Legend |
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| 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) |
| Legend |
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| 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 |
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 |
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| 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 | |
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