Country (sports) | Spain |
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Residence | Barcelona, Spain |
Born |
Barcelona, Spain |
12 April 1986
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Turned pro | 2003 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Coach(es) | Fernando Vicente |
Prize money | $8,505,616 |
Singles | |
Career record | 185–217 |
Career titles | 4 |
Highest ranking | No. 19 (23 July 2012) |
Current ranking | No. 37 (7 November 2016) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016) |
French Open | 4R (2012, 2014, 2016) |
Wimbledon | 2R (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016) |
US Open | 4R (2013) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 288–188 |
Career titles | 13 |
Highest ranking | No. 4 (25 February 2013) |
Current ranking | No. 18 (7 November 2016) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | SF (2013, 2016) |
French Open | F (2014) |
Wimbledon | QF (2008, 2010) |
US Open | F (2014) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Tour Finals | W (2012) |
Team competitions | |
Davis Cup | W (2008, 2011) |
Last updated on: 7 November 2016. |
Marcel Granollers Pujol (Catalan: [mərˈsɛɫ ɣɾənuˈʎes puˈʒɔɫ], Spanish: [marˈθel ɣɾanoˈʎers puˈʝol]; born 12 April 1986) is a tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 19 in July 2012, and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 4 in February 2013. Granollers has won 4 singles titles and 9 doubles titles, including the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals. His brother Gerard Granollers is also a tennis player.
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.
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 Australian Open Singles Draw, but lost to Evgeny Korolev in straight sets in the first round. 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 20 April, he won his first ATP singles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, defeating World No. 8 James Blake in the final. He had saved two match points in the semifinals. 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 21–23 November, 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.