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Marsel İlhan

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Marsel İlhan



Began playing at age six and born in Samarkand (second-largest city in Uzbekistan) and resides in Istanbul...Father, Kahor (is deceased), mother, Madiya...Speaks Turkish, Russian and English...Away from tennis, enjoys playing Playstation and favourite soccer team is Turkish first division Fenerbahce… Idol growing up was Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov…First coached by Veliev Setyaya…His favourite shot is forehand cross court and favourite surface is hard courts…Career ambition is to finish inside the Top 100 for 10 consecutive years...Coached by Can Uner.

Age: 22 (11.06.1987)
Birthplace: Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Residence: Istanbul, Turkey
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
Weight: 172 lbs (78 kg)
Plays: Right-handed
Turned Pro: 2006
Coach: Can Uner

 
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#537 ·
Coming off a sickness playing a Frenchman in front of the home crowd, not a terribly surprising result.

I think Marsel is playing the two big indoor challengers in Slovakia and Finland next. Although he has made the AO MD, he defends a lot of points there and will be out of the top 100 again if he loses R1, so he still needs wins to pad the ranking. He hasn't done much with this ATP tour thing, that may cost him down the road as opposed to getting the easy points in challengers.
 
#539 ·
He defends like 75 or 80 points in Australia. Somewhere in that range. He needs some wins, when you are ranked about 80 and below, every single week is basically a week where your career can be determined if you win or lose. It's funny how things change so quickly. He's #90 now but in two months he'll be right in the position he was before this fall. Hopefully he can get a good performance in one of the big challengers.
 
#540 ·
I was at the game, there was like 25 ppl watching since the other court had ouanna vs gimeno game, it was like a practice game. marsel looked fit but he played like shit, he lost 8 of every 10 rallys and kept missing While reix found the lines all the time and 6 deuce games on the match he lost 5 of them.
Just at 4-5 down first set he played some good points but missed an easy passing at break point.
Reix has a very good game tho im surprised to see he Wasnt even top 500 till last month.
As for Marsel, he needs to play more challengers instead of losing to nobodys he can grab some points and moral boost.
 
#549 ·
thanks for the interview

so..running it through google translate i get some facts:

- his goal(maybe for next year) is to reach the top 50

- calls marsel average but also says he has a good backhand

- they arent trying to focus on any area of marsel's specifically they want to work on all areas of his game. They want to reduce simple errors in the back hand and forehand, improve his net game and serve

- marsel uses the matches he lost to belluci and zemjla as lessons

there is also something in there about spain and an exam or something but im not really sure what it is.

at first i thought maybe he would start playing for spain but dropped that. he would not stop playing for turkey
 
#550 ·
misty that's about lluis bruguera. he made a contract with turkey as a coach. uner says "bruguera is a great person and he is really helping to us. he said to me marsel could make the top 50 with few addings." also reporter says that marsel's backhand was really poor in 2008 but he improved it and he has an average backhand now but uner disagrees and says he has a good backhand, not an average one.

sorry for my bad english..
 
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