Grand Prix Hassan II , Casablanca, April 4-10

[getta]

Official site of the event: www.gphassan2tennis.com/

Main draw: Saturday, April 2, 1:00 p.m.

Entry List

1 Montanes, Albert ESP 25
2 Simon, Gilles FRA 33
3 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 34
4 Mayer, Florian GER 38
5 Golubev, Andrey KAZ 44
6 Starace, Potito ITA 46
7 Granollers, Marcel ESP 53
8 Fognini, Fabio ITA 56
9 Hanescu, Victor ROU 57
10 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 59
11 Andujar, Pablo ESP 67
12 Riba, Pere ESP 69
13 Berrer, Michael GER 70
14 Serra, Florent FRA 72
15 Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 75
16 Brands, Daniel GER 77
17 Benneteau, Julien FRA 80
18 Machado, Rui POR 84
19 Gil, Frederico POR 85
20 (SE)
21 (SE)
22 (Q)
23 (Q)
24 (Q)
25 (Q)
26 (WC) Baghdatis, Marcos CYP
27 (WC) Chardy, Jeremy FRA
28 (WC) El Amrani, Reda MOR

Alternates
1. Volandri, Filippo ITA 86
2. Kavcic, Blaz SLO 87
3. Sela, Dudi ISR 91
4. Phau, Bjorn GER 92
5. Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 96
6. Daniel, Marcos BRA 97
7. Zverev, Mischa GER 98
8. Bolelli, Simone ITA 99
9. Marchenko, Illya UKR 100
10. Zeballos, Horacio ARG 101
OUT Hajek, Jan CZE 102
11. Brown, Dustin GER 103
OUT Schwank, Eduardo ARG 104
12. Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 105
13. Clement, Arnaud FRA 106

[christos]

This is a 250 one, right?
Very good, go Marcos, take some wins there :-)

[Michael]

Couple matches yes - couple of wins would be a great success (since he will get bye first round). We all know Markos performance on clay. A quick look on the entry list; no big names BUT majority are clay players who are rushing to go back and get some points on clay

Mar 27, 2011 14:58:53 GMT -5 christos said:

This is a 250 one, right?
Very good, go Marcos, take some wins there :-)

[Giatros]

Marcos Takes Casablanca Wild Card

Heading to Morocco next week...



Marcos has decided to stay his clay-court season earlier than planned and taken a wild card into next week’s Grand Prix Hassan II, an ATP World Tour 250 event in Casablanca, Morocco.

It will be Marcos’ first time at the event. He is joined in the 28-man draw by the likes of Albert Montanes, Gilles Simon, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Florian Mayer, Andrey Golubev, Potito Starace and Marcel Granollers.

Following his participation in Casablanca, Marcos will continue his build up to the French Open at Monte-Carlo, Munich, Madrid and Rome.

See Marcos’ Schedule

Stay tuned to www.baghdatis.com for all the latest news.

Go, Marcos!

[Giatros]

The Main draw for the Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca will be held on Saturday, April 2,
at 1 pm local time ( 1 pm GMT, 4 pm Cyprus / Greece ). Marcos is seeded # 2 ( 1st round - bye ).

[ DST starts on Sunday, 3 April in Morocco, so the local time will be GMT+1 once again ]


Pame Marcooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!

[getta]

www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Tournaments/Casablanca.aspx

Baghdatis Lights Up Field



After a string of early exits on the ATP World Tour, Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis has opted to start his clay-court season earlier than planned by taking a wild card into the Grand Prix Hassan II. The 25 year old is making his debut at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament in Casablanca and is bidding for his first clay-court title.


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put them all on one line to rule them all, Marcos.

you can do it yourself.

[getta]

Marcos on facebook:

Casablanca Draw: Marcos is seeded No. 2. He has a bye in the first round and will open against one of two qualifiers. Seeded to meet Victor Hanescu in the quarters and Gilles Simon in the semis. What do you think?

about an hour ago


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the Romanian giant provides a huge presence on clay, Gillou is currently out of shape though.

hope you savour awesome wins, Marcos.

[Giatros]

Apr 2, 2011 10:43:12 GMT -5 getta said:

Marcos on facebook:

Casablanca Draw: Marcos is seeded No. 2. He has a bye in the first round and will open against one of two qualifiers. Seeded to meet Victor Hanescu in the quarters and Gilles Simon in the semis. What do you think?

Link for the Main Draw (PDF)

[Giatros]

Casablanca Draw Announced

Marcos seeded No. 2...



Marcos has been seeded No. 2 in next week’s Grand Prix Hassan II and as such has received a bye through the first round of the ATP World Tour 250 clay-court tournament in Casablanca, Morocco.

Marcos will open his campaign against one of two qualifiers and is seeded to meet eighth seed and 2010 runner-up Victor Hanescu in the quarter-finals. He is also in the same half of the draw as third seed Gilles Simon and fifth seed Potito Starace. Spaniard Albert Montanes is the top seed in the 28-man field.

Check out the full draw here.

Stay tuned to www.baghdatis.com for all the latest news and photos from Casablanca.

Go, Marcos!

[getta]

qualifiers haven't been placed in the main draw yet.

the 4 qualifiers are: Gutierrez-Ferrol, Granollers-Pujol (Marcel's young brother, Marcos defeated Marcel at RG last year), Devilder and Kuznetsov.

Devilder and Kuznetsov are tough cookies... i guess Marcos prefers to avoid playing them in his opening match... we will see what happens, Marcos can still do the business anyway..

[Giatros]

Apr 4, 2011 14:20:06 GMT -5 getta said:

qualifiers haven't been placed in the main draw yet.

the 4 qualifiers are: Gutierrez-Ferrol, Granollers-Pujol (Marcel's young brother, Marcos defeated Marcel at RG last year), Devilder and Kuznetsov.

Devilder and Kuznetsov are tough cookies... i guess Marcos prefers to avoid playing them in his opening match... we will see what happens, Marcos can still do the business anyway..

It's :

Gutierrez-Ferrol v Kuznetsov . . . [ Ranked # 320 & # 244 respectively ]

( They play tomorrow, Tuesday ) ... Order of Play

[getta]

and, it's Andrey Kuznetsov.

[getta]

Marcos on facebook:

Casablanca Wednesday Schedule: Marcos will play Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov on Court Central not before 1pm (12pm GMT, 3pm Cyprus).

7 minutes ago

[Giatros]

Marcos Plays Kuznetsov Wednesday

Casablanca campaign set to begin...



Marcos will open his campaign at the Grand Prix Hassan II on Wednesday against World No. 244 Andrey Kuznetsov. The 20-year-old Russian qualified into the main draw before recording just his third career tour-level win with a straight-sets win over Spanish qualifier Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol on Tuesday.

The match is scheduled to take place on Court Central not before 1pm local time (12pm GMT, 3pm Cyprus). Check out the full Wednesday order of play here.

The match will be shown live on Tennis TV. Check out the schedule information and territory restrictions here.

Live Scores | TV Schedule

Stay tuned to www.baghdatis.com for all the latest news from Casablanca.

Go, Marcos!

[getta]

Marcos has to put his foot down and rub the crushing four-match losing streak.

much caring about today's outcome, i'm a bit nervous.