Marcel Granollers

Marcel Granollers

Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Born	12 April 1986 Barcelona, Spain
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach(es)	Fernando Vicente
Prize money	$7,377,315
Singles
Career record	165–194
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 19 (23 July 2012)
Current ranking	No. 53 (2 May 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016)
French Open	4R (2012, 2014)
Wimbledon	2R (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015)
US Open	4R (2013)
Doubles
Career record	258–173
Career titles	10
Highest ranking	No. 4 (25 February 2013)
Current ranking	No. 29 (1 February 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: February 1, 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.^[1] 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.

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.^[2]

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 Australian Open Singles Draw, but lost to Evgeny Korolev in straight sets in the first round.^[3] 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.^[4] He had saved two match points in the semifinals.^[5] 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.

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 first 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 eventual champion Novak Djokovic, and he didn't win consecutive matches until the 2011 Miami Masters, where he got to the fourth round.^[6] 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 Swiss Open.^[7][8] In the US Open, he reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, to break into the Top 30.^[9] In November, Granollers claimed the title at the Valencia Open 500 by defeating Juan Mónaco in three sets and said, "Winning here has been the biggest achievement in my whole career."^[10] He beat four Top 20 players: Alexandr Dolgopolov, Marin Čilić, Gaël Monfils and Juan Martín del Potro en route to the final at the ATP World Tour 500 tournament.^[10] Granollers played for the victorious Spain Davis Cup team in 2011, losing the doubles rubber (with Fernando Verdasco) in the quarter final against United States.^[11]

2012

Marcel Granollers reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time at French Open, losing to David Ferrer in three straight sets.^[12] Granollers lost to Marin Čilić in the final match of Croatia Open on 15 July 2012.^[13] Playing doubles alongside countryman Marc López, he went 3–4 in finals, winning titles at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Swiss Open and ATP World Tour Finals. Granollers and Lopez were the first Spanish pair to play at the season-ending championships since Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez in 1994.^[14] He also partnered López at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[15]

2013

Granollers made it to the fourth round of the US Open for the first time, and he lost to top-seed Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

2015

Granollers made it to the second round of the French Open, where he was defeated by Roger Federer, the second seed.

Playing style

Granollers' good serve and net skills account for his excellent doubles record. His comparatively technically weak groundstrokes are underpowered with low takebacks on both wings but they provide a decent defensive framework.^[16] He is also known for his heavy grunting, so much as to result in ridicule and accusations of gamesmanship due to its loud volume and questionable timing during matches.^[17][18][19]

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	2014	French Open	Clay	Marc López	Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin	3–6, 6–7^(1–7)
Runner-up	2014	US Open	Hard	Marc López	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6

Year-End Championships finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2012	ATP World Tour Finals	Hard (i)	Marc López	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	7–5, 3–6, [10–3]

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2009	Paris Masters	Hard (i)	Tommy Robredo	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 4–6
Winner	2012	Italian Open	Clay	Marc López	Łukasz Kubot Janko Tipsarević	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	2012	Canadian Open	Hard	Marc López	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1–6, 6–4, [10–12]
Runner-up	2013	Cincinnati Masters	Hard	Marc López	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4–6, 6–4, [4–10]
Runner-up	2015	Rome	Clay	Marc López	Pablo Cuevas David Marrero	4–6, 5–7

ATP career finals

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–1)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (3–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	14 April 2008	U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Houston, USA	Clay	James Blake	6–4, 1–6, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	7 November 2010	Valencia Open, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	David Ferrer	5–7, 3–6
Winner	2.	31 July 2011	Swiss Open, Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Fernando Verdasco	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	3.	5 November 2011	Valencia Open, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Juan Mónaco	6–2, 4–6, 7–6^(7–3)
Runner-up	2.	15 July 2012	Croatia Open, Umag, Croatia	Clay	Marin Čilić	4–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	3 August 2013	Austrian Open, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Juan Mónaco	0–6, 7–6^(7–3), 6–4
Runner-up	3.	13 April 2014	Casablanca Open, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Guillermo García-López	7–5, 4–6, 3–6

Doubles: 26 (10 titles, 16 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–2)
ATP World Tour Finals (1–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–4)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–4)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (8–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 April 2008	U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Houston, United States	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	Ernests Gulbis Rainer Schüttler	5–7, 6–7^(3–7)
Winner	1.	14 February 2009	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauipe, Brazil	Clay	Tommy Robredo	Lucas Arnold Ker Juan Mónaco	6–4, 7–5
Winner	2.	22 February 2009	Buenos Aires Open, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Alberto Martín	Nicolás Almagro Santiago Ventura	6–3, 5–7, [10–8]
Winner	3.	22 October 2009	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Pablo Cuevas	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4–6, 7–5, [10–8]
Runner-up	2.	8 November 2009	Valencia Open 500, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Tommy Robredo	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	15 November 2009	Paris Masters, Paris, France	Hard (i)	Tommy Robredo	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 4–6
Winner	4.	10 January 2010	Chennai Open, Chennai, India	Hard	Santiago Ventura	Lu Yen-Hsun Janko Tipsarević	7–5, 6–2
Winner	5.	14 February 2010	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauipe, Brazil (2)	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	9 May 2010	Portugal Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	Marc López David Marrero	7–6^(7–1), 4–6, [4–10]
Runner-up	5.	26 September 2010	Romanian Open, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Santiago Ventura	Juan Ignacio Chela Łukasz Kubot	2–6, 7–5, [11–13]
Winner	6.	15 January 2011	Auckland Open, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Tommy Robredo	Johan Brunström Stephen Huss	6–4, 7–6^(8–6)
Runner-up	6.	6 February 2011	Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Marc López	Dick Norman Horia Tecău	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	16 July 2011	Stuttgart Open, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Marc López	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	4 March 2012	Mexican Open, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Marc López	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	9.	29 April 2012	Barcelona Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Marc López	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 6–7^(7–9), [8–10]
Winner	7.	20 May 2012	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Marc López	Łukasz Kubot Janko Tipsarević	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	10.	14 July 2012	Croatia Open, Umag, Croatia	Clay	Marc López	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	3–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Winner	8.	22 July 2012	Swiss Open, Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Marc López	Robert Farah Santiago Giraldo	6–4, 7–6^(11–9)
Runner-up	11.	12 August 2012	Canadian Open, Toronto, Canada	Clay	Marc López	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1–6, 6–4, [10–12]
Winner	9.	12 November 2012	ATP World Tour Finals, London, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Marc López	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	7–5, 3–6, [10–3]
Runner-up	12.	18 August 2013	Cincinnati Masters, Cincinnati, United States	Hard	Marc López	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4–6, 6–4, [4–10]
Winner	10.	16 February 2014	Buenos Aires Open, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Marc López	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	13.	7 June 2014	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Marc López	Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin	3–6, 6–7^(1–7)
Runner-up	14.	7 September 2014	US Open, New York, United States	Hard	Marc López	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	15.	17 May 2015	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy	Clay	Marc López	Pablo Cuevas David Marrero	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	16.	24 April 2016	Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5–7, 5–7

Singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

R#

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent from tournament; played in a (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; won a (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; or (NH) tournament not held.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Current till 2015 BNP Paribas Masters.

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	5–8
French Open	A	A	2R	1R	2R	2R	4R	1R	4R	2R		10–8
Wimbledon	1R	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R		4–9
US Open	A	A	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	4R	3R	2R		11–8
Win–Loss	0–1	0–0	1–4	3–4	4–4	3–4	5–4	4–4	6–4	4–4		30–33
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	3R	1R	A	1R	2R	1–5
Miami Masters	A	A	A	A	A	4R	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	3–5
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	QF	3–7
Italian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	Q1	3R	QF	2R	1R		6–6
Madrid Open	A	A	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	3R		5–8
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	2R	1R	A		5–3
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A		1–3
Shanghai Masters	NMS			A	A	1R	A	2R	1R	A		1–3
Paris Masters	A	A	2R	A	1R	1R	2R	2R	A	1R		2–6
German Open	A	A	1R	Not Masters Series								0–1
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–4	0–4	4–6	8–8	8–9	1–7	3–6		26–47
Career statistics
Titles–Runners-up	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0		4–3
Year End Ranking	160	132	56	91	42	27	34	38	46	84

Doubles performance timeline

Current through 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	SR	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	1R	2R	3R	1R	SF	2R	1R	0 / 8	8–8
French Open	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	QF	F	1R	0 / 9	12–9
Wimbledon	1R	QF	1R	QF	3R	1R	1R	3R	2R	0 / 9	11–9
US Open	2R	1R	2R	SF	3R	SF	3R	F		0 / 7	14–5
Win–Loss	2–3	5–4	2–3	8–4	7–2	4–4	9–4	13–4	1-3	0 / 33	51–33
Year-End Championship
ATP World Tour Finals	A	A	A	A	A	W	RR	RR		1 / 3	6–5
ATP Masters Series 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	A	2R	0 / 4	3–4
Miami Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	SF	1R	1R	0 / 5	4–5
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	A	A	1R	QF	SF	2R	1R	QF	0 / 6	6–5
Madrid Open (clay)	As Hamburg		QF	SF	2R	QF	2R	2R	SF	0 / 7	11–7
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	QF	W	SF	2R	F	1 / 5	12–4
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	A	F	QF	QF		0 / 3	4–3
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	QF	F	2R		0 / 3	4–3
Madrid Open (hard)	A	QF	Held as Shanghai							0 / 1	2–1
Shanghai Masters	Not Held		A	A	A	2R	QF	SF		0 / 3	4–3
Paris Masters	A	A	F	1R	A	A	QF	SF		0 / 4	7-4
Win–Loss	0–0	2–1	6–2	5–4	4–4	16–6	11–9	7–8	7–5	1 / 41	58–39
Year–End Ranking	59	60	25	22	32	10	12	8

References

1. "Marcel Granollers Player Profile". ATPWorldTour.com.
2. Wimbledon bio
3. ATP Vault
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5. "First-Time Winner Spotlight Marcel Granollers". ATPWorldTour.com. 21 April 2008.
6. "Playing Activity". Association of Tennis Professionals. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
7. "Granollers Wins All-Spanish Contest To Capture Second Title". ATPWorldTour.com. 31 July 2011.
8. "Granollers Beats Verdasco To Win Swiss Open". 31 July 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
9. "Emirates ATP Rankings History". ATPWorldTour.com. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
10. "Granollers Outlasts Monaco For Valencia Title". ATPWorldTour.com. 6 November 2011.
11. "Davis Cup 2011". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
12. "Marcel Granollers". Retrieved 4 June 2012.
13. "Marin Cilic beats Marcel Granollers to win Croatia Open". 16 July 2012.
14. "Granollers/Lopez Win Biggest Title of Their Careers in London". ATPWorldTour.com. 12 November 2012.
15. "Marcel Granollers Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
16. ATP: Q&A With Marcel Granollers, 12 March 2010.
17. "Grunting plagues the men's game, too", Sports Illustrated.
18. "With Granollers, the Volume Is Out of Control", Straight Sets: Tennis Blog of The New York Times, 4 June 2012.
19. "David Ferrer dispatches groaning Granollers", stuff.co.nz, 5 June 2012.

External links

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