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Carballés confirms the idyll of his career in Marrakech

The Spanish won the ATP 250 of Morocco in 2023

April 04, 2025

Roberto Carballés Baena has turned the Grand Prix Hassan II into a totally familiar territory. The Spanish reached this Friday the semifinals on Moroccan clay for the third consecutive season, confirming an idyll unparalleled with the African tournament. After lifting the cup in 2023 and climbing until the final in 2024, the possibility of recovering the throne is a real possibility in the hands of the Granada.

The third standard head had to row to land in the penultimate round, surpassing 6-4, 6-4 to the Portuguese Nuno Borges in an hour and 48 minutes at stake. In a clash between two players with great resources in the brick dust. Carballés imposed his temperance to catch his most demanding match in the tournament. The Spaniard opened the party on the channel by advising two advantage breaks in each partial, a gap that the Portuguese never managed to suture in time. Before decisive rounds, the former champion gave himself an exercise of power.

I am very happy, it has been a hard game. I have saved many breakfast balls, ”recalled the Spanish, who completed a maximum efficiency encounter in danger after canceling 15 of the 17 break options generated by his rival.” I have tried to be focused on my game, make a solid tennis, but also be aggressive with my service. “

The Spanish, who could return to the top 50 of the PIF ATP Rankings in case of recovering the throne in Marrakech, extended a formidable history in the tournament. Carballés accumulates an 18-4 balance on the African beaten land, being the most recent player in the tournament. “I feel very good here and I will try to continue this line.”

The landing in Marrakech has served to activate the game rhythm with which he has raised two titles in the ATP Tour. The Spanish, who had resulted in his passage on the clay of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the season, has found the perfect stage in North Africa to adjust his best blows.

After drawing an impeccable tournament, overcoming its first three games without delivering a single manga, Carbalés faces the possibility of fighting for the title in Marrakech for the third consecutive edition. Become a true man to beat, the Spanish will play the semifinals before the seventh Italian series Luciano Darderi, which beat the Czech Vit Kopriva 7-5, 6-2.

Did you know that …?
The Grand Prix Hassan II has been a great tradition for Spanish tennis. Since its establishment in the ATP Tour calendar in the 1990 season, nine Navy tennis players have managed to lift the individual trophy about Moroccan clay. The deeds of Tomás Carbonell (1996), Alberto Martín (1999), Fernando Vicente (2000), Santiago Ventura (2004), Juan Carlos Ferrero (2009), Pablo Andújar (2011-12, 2018), Tommy Robredo (2013), Guillermo García-López (2014) and Roberto Carbalés Baena (2023) colored the story of an event with great Spanish color.