GRAND PRIX HASSAN II: DAY 7 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, 15 April 2018 Royal Tennis Club de Marrakech | Marrakech, Morocco | 9-15 April 2018 Draw: S-32, D-16 | Prize Money: €501,345 | Surface: Clay ATP World Tour Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com FRMT.ma Fabienne Benoit:
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[email protected] Facebook: @ATPWorldTour FRMT TV & Radio: TennisTV.com EDMUND GOES FOR FIRST CAREER TITLE AGAINST 2-TIME CHAMP ANDUJAR • An experienced champion and a debutante will battle for the Grand Prix Hassan II championship on Sunday, as Pablo Andujar of Spain, the 2011 and 2012 titlist, will take on No.2 seed and first-time participant Kyle Edmund of Great Britain, who has reached the first ATP World Tour final of his career. This is their first Tour-level meeting, although Edmund defeated Andujar in the qualifying rounds at Beijing in 2016. • Andujar, who is ranked No. 355 and playing with a protected ranking of No. 105, has improved his stellar tournament record to 14-2 after winning his quarter-final and semi-final matches on Saturday. The two-time champion is bidding to win ATP Challenger Tour and ATP World Tour titles in consecutive weeks after claiming the Challenger crown in Alicante, Spain. The last player to do that was Ryan Harrison in 2017, going back-to-back in Dallas and Memphis. A victory would also make 32-year-old Andujar the lowest-ranked ATP World Tour singles champion since then-16-year-old Lleyton Hewitt triumphed at Adelaide in 1998, when the Australian was ranked No.