Juan Carlos will play today first round of the Masters 1000 of MonteCarlo

Finally,the European clay court season has arrived and JC will start at MonteCarlo.He will try to continue the great clay court season he started on the South American clay court season,where he won 14 matches and only lost 1.JC will appear as the ninth seeded player and will start on first round against Marcel Granollers,who has qualifies to the Main Draw by playing the qualies.

Main draw of Juan Carlos

[8] Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) vs bye
Fabio Fognini (ITA) vs Michael Llodra (FRA)
Jeremy Chardy (FRA) - Qualifier
Qualifier vs [11] David Ferrer (ESP)

[15] Jurgen Melzer (AUT) vs Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) vs Philipp Petzschner (GER)
Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)
[3WC] Andy Murray (GBR) vs bye

[5] Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) vs bye
Nicolas Almagro (ESP) vs Simon Greul (GER)
[WC] Bernard Tomic (AUS) vs Benjamin Becker (GER)
Qualifier vs [9] Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)

[14] Juan Monaco (ARG) vs Qualifier
Michael Berrer (GER) vs Evgeny Korolev (KAZ)
Qualifier vs Eduardo Schwank (ARG)
[2] Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs bye

As you can see,JC will start playing against Granollers in first round.Then he will probably play against Tomic and on third round he will face Tsonga.Let´s hope that JC is able to reach quarter finals,where in theory he would play against Nadal.

Ferrero vs Granollers,first round

JC will start his participance on this Masters 1000 of Monte Carlo,where he has done some great results (he won this tournament twice in 2002 and 2003) and he will play against Granollers,who won in the qualies against Ouanna and Balleret.

Granollers is ranked 88 and so far this year he has won 7 matches and lost 6.His best results in this year has been the final he lost in the Challenger of Rabat (against Ramirez Hidalgo) and the semis he did at the Challenger of Marrakech.On the last tournament he played,Casablanca,he lost on the second round against Guillermo Garcia Lopez.JC and Marcel already met at the start of this year at Buenos Aires.Granollers won the first set at the tie break.However, JC won the second set by 6-0 and the thrid and last one by 6-3.

The match will start around 14:00-14:30 and as it will be played at centre court,we will be able to watch the match by Bet 365 or any link given in pages such us atdhe,myp2p,fromsport,rojadirecta,channelsurfing...

Good luck JC!