Marsel Hopped Out at 2nd Round

Marsel lost to Troicki in two sets with scores of 6-3. He seems to get more break opportunities but he broke once as Troicki broke him 4 times. Stats are;

MATCH 1 2

Viktor Troicki

Marsel Ilhan

Service Statistics
Aces	4	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st Serve %	65%	69%
1st Serve Points Won	26/33 (79%)	19/33 (58%)
2nd Serve Points Won	11/18 (61%)	6/15 (40%)
Break Points Saved	2/3 (67%)	1/5 (20%)
Service Games Played	9	9
Return Statistics
1st Return Points Won	14/33 (42%)	7/33 (21%)
2nd Return Points Won	9/15 (60%)	7/18 (39%)
Break Points Won	4/5 (80%)	1/3 (33%)
Return Games Played	9	9
Points Statistics
Total Service Points Won	37/51 (73%)	25/48 (52%)
Total Return Points Won	23/48 (48%)	14/51 (27%)
Total Points Won	60/99 (61%)	39/99 (39%)

In this tournament he faced some physical problems. Cramps and stuff like that. It was important for him to save his 41 points and he managed that.

Russell says that he changed his schedule a little bit. He is skipping Barletta challenger and will have an extra week before Monza challenger. If he can win 4 matches there that would lead him to main draw of Roland Garros.

Focus Marsel!

Ranking Stuff

Marsel gained 20 points this week. If there won't be much of a change in points of players that are higher ranked than him (yes, i couldn't follow them), he should be #115 ahead of Haider-Maurer (Haydar, as we call him) at the end of this week.

When wee look at the points he has to defend this month and next month, we find ourselves in a positive mood. He has to defend 41 points in Miami, this is important. Besides that he has to defend 10 points in Barcelona and thats it for April. In May he has to defend 60 points he gained from challenger events. This means 111 points for the next 2 months.

He compensated 20 points of this 111 points in Le Gosier as there is no more points for him to defend for March. As he is getting better and better on clay, i think he can reach top 100 again in clay season. This would be important for Wimbledon. At this point it seems impossible that he can enter main draw of Roland Garros directly. As the situation for Wimbledon will be clear in the first week of May, so next month will be very important for Marsel.

Haydi Marsel!