Marcel Granollers

Full name is Marcel Granollers Pujol...Began playing at age five...Father, Javier, is a commercial director and mother Montse, is a teacher... Also has a younger brother, Gerard (20), who reached a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 684 in August 2008...Speaks Spanish and English...Enjoys football and supports R.C.D. Espanyol...Played his only junior Grand Slam tournament at Roland Garros in 2004 and captured doubles title (w/Andujar)...Considers clay his favorite surface...Coached by David de Miguel and Alex Calatrava.

2003 – Reached QF in four Spanish Futures events and in October won Spain #25 Futures title in Martos (d. Carril)...

2004 – Played in 19 Futures events and advanced to QF or better 12 times, winning twice (Reus and Martos)...Lost on clay to Andy Murray in QF of Vigo Futures event...

2005 – Reached six Futures finals (three in Portugal, three in Spain), winning titles on hard courts in Martos and La Palma...

2006 – Qualified for his first Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon where he lost to Andrei Pavel in 1st RD...After winning hard court Futures event in Portugal in March, moved up to Challenger level, winning one title and reaching two other finals...In May, reached Ostrava final (l. to I. Minar) and one month later was runner-up in Turin (l. to Cipolla)...Captured first Challenger title in Barcelona (d. Hernandez) in October...Played Murray again on clay, this time in ATP stop in Barcelona, falling in three sets...

2007 – Finished in Top 150 for first time, highlighted by his first ATP QF appearance in Valencia...As a qualifier, beat Pless and Simon (l. to Starace...In doubles, finished with an 8-7 mark, reaching SF at Costa do Sauipe and Barcelona (both w/Almagro...Enjoyed an excellent season on Challenger circuit (34-22 record), reaching three finals in Montevideo (l. to Ventura), Belo Horizonte (l. to Devilder), Bucharest-2 (l. to Hanescu...In doubles, won nine Challenger titles -- including five with Ventura -- in Napoli, Rome, Mas Palomas, Tarragona, Seville, Timisoara, Belo Horizonte, Bucharest 2...Runner-up in Bogota and Montevideo.

2008

The Spaniard finished in Top 100 for first time, highlighted by his first ATP title and personal-best 15 match wins...Member of winning Spanish Davis Cup team (d. Argentina 3-1), although he did not play...Qualified into an ATP circuit-best (along w/Hernych) six times...Opened first two months qualifying at Australian Open (1st RD), Vina del Mar (2nd RD) and Acapulco (QF)...In March, captured Challenger title in Tanger, Morocco (d. Gimeno-Traver) and following month, reached final at St. Brieuc Challenger (l. to C. Rochus)...Two weeks later, made breakthrough with maiden ATP title in Houston where he defeated No. 8 Blake in a three-set final...Also reached first ATP doubles final (w/Cuevas)...Afterwards, jumped from No. 84 to No. 54...At Roland Garros, won first Grand Slam match (d. Berrer, l. to Schwank)...Followed with QF in Warsaw (l. to Monaco)...In July, reached QF in Amersfoort (l. to Hernandez)...Closed season by qualifying at AMS tournaments in Madrid (d. Mathieu, l. to Tsonga) and Paris (l. to Cilic)...Compiled marks of 12-9 on clay and 2-9 on hard... Earned a career-high $474,778.