Marcel Granollers

Marcel Granollers Pujol (born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player.

Granollers and Lopez were the first Spanish pair to play at the season-ending championships since Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez in 1994.

They won the title defeating Indian duo Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in the final.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

In November, Granollers claimed the title at the Valencia Open by defeating Juan Mónaco in three sets and said, "Winning here has been the biggest achievement in my whole career."

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.

Granollers played for the victorious Spain Davis Cup team in 2011, losing the doubles rubber (with Fernando Verdasco) in the quarterfinal against United States.

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.

He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 19 in July 2012, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 in February 2013.

Granollers has won four ATP singles titles and 25 doubles titles, including the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals.

Granollers lost to Marin Čilić in the final match of Croatia Open on 15 July 2012.

Playing doubles alongside countryman Marc López, he went 3–4 in finals, winning titles at the Italian Open, Swiss Open and the ATP World Tour Finals.

He also partnered López at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Granollers reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 in doubles on 25 February 2013.

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

He has also reached five Major doubles finals at the 2014 French Open, the 2014 and 2019 US Open, and the 2021 and 2023 Wimbledon Championships

Granollers' brother Gerard is also a tennis player, and they have won five Challenger doubles titles together.

In 2014, he had a very consistent doubles performances at the French and US Opens, making the finals at both events with partner Marc López.

They qualified for their third consecutive ATP Finals where they lost in the round robin stage for a second year in a row.

Granollers suffered a significant loss in form, with only one tour-level late round appearance: the semifinals in Zagreb Indoors losing to Andreas Seppi.

His 2015 year-end singles ranking dropped to No. 84.

Granollers reached the finals in both the 2015 and 2017 Masters 1000 in Rome.

He reached the quarterfinals of the 2016 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters before losing to Gaël Monfils in straight sets, making the main draw as a lucky loser.