GRAND PRIX HASSAN II: PREVIEW & DAY 1 MEDIA NOTES Monday, April 4, 2016 Royal Tennis Club de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco | April 4 – 10, 2016 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: €520,070 | Surface: Clay ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com http://www.gphassan2tennis.com Fabienne Benoit:
[email protected] @ATPWorldTour Press Room: +212 524 379 201 facebook.com/ATPWorldTour GRAND PRIX HASSAN II TALKING POINTS GRAND PRIX HASSAN II: The spring clay season begins in a new host city for the only African tournament on the ATP World Tour as the Grand Prix Hassan II, inaugurated in 1984 in Casablanca, takes place at the newly relocated Royal Tennis Club de Marrakech. Leading the way is top seed and 2014 champion Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, No. 2 Joao Sousa, No. 3 Borna Coric, No. 4 Federico Delbonis, No. 5 Teymuraz Gabashvili, No. 6 Albert Ramos-Vinolas, No. 7 Pablo Carreno Busta and No. 8 Jiri Vesely. Overall six players in the Top 50 Emirates ATP Rankings are in the draw. Garcia- Lopez and Paul-Henri Mathieu (2007) are the former champions in the draw. DAY 1 PREVIEW: There are six matches (4 singles, 2 doubles) scheduled on opening day at the Grand Prix Hassan II. In the first match on Centre Court Argentine qualifier Maximo Gonzalez meets Daniel Munoz de la Nava for the second time this season on the ATP World Tour, having lost to the Spaniard in his only other main-draw appearance of the year at Sao Paulo. Qualifier Franko Skugor then faces Spain’s Albert Montanes, the 2007 finalist and oldest player in the singles draw.