GRAND PRIX HASSAN II: DAY 2 MEDIA NOTES Tuesday, April 5, 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 SEEDS GABASHVILI, RAMOS-VINOLAS, VESELY HIGHLIGHT DAY TWO ACTION DAY 2 PREVIEW: There are seven singles matches on Tuesday’s schedule at the Grand Prix Hassan II, leading off with No. 5 seed Teymuraz Gabashvili of Russia in the first match on Centre Court. Gabashvili takes on last year’s finalist Daniel Gimeno-Traver, who won the previous meeting in Hamburg two years ago. In the following match on, 2007 champion Paul-Henri Mathieu looks for his second win against No. 6 Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who was a finalist in 2012. In the opening week of the season in Doha, the Frenchman prevailed in a third set tie-break. In the third match on, Radu Albot of Moldova and former Top 10 Spaniard Nicolas Almagro meet for the first time. Albot is making his tournament debut and second appearance on the ATP World Tour this season. Almagro reached the final in Buenos Aires (l. to Thiem) in February. In the final match on, local wild card Amine Ahouda and Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker square off for the first time. On Court 2, Spaniard Inigo Cervantes and No. 8 seed Jiri Vesely, who reached the semi-finals last year, are a first-time battle.