Marsel Ä°lhan
Marsel İlhan ( born June 11, 1987 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan) is a Turkish tennis player.
He has long been the No. 1 of his country and the first Turkish player who has reached the second round at Wimbledon, as well as at the U.S. Open and Australian Open and Roland Garros in the men's single. As the first Turkish player, he also won several Grand Slam tournaments.
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Career
Childhood and the first years
Ilhan was born in 1987 in Uzbekistan, emigrated with his mother in 2004 from Turkey and started playing for the Taçspor tennis club of Istanbul. He was sponsored by Kia Motors Turkey. After several years of intensive training with his new coach, Can Uner, a former Turkish tennis player, he was able to improve his position in 2007 within a year in the world ranking of No. 1320 320.
Breakthrough in 2008
He beat the Croats Ivo Klec on 13 July 2008 with 6:4 and 6:4 at the Israel Open. At the Grand Slam tournaments at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2008, he failed but then each in qualifying.
2009
In early 2009, he could not get good results because of a knee injury. After he lost to Flavio Cipolla in Dubai in the second qualifying round, then he won 24 of his next 27 games. He won two Futures tournaments in Antalya, reaching the final of the Challenger tournament in Izmir, which he lost to Italian Andrea Stoppini.
In the Thailand Open in Bangkok İlhan won all the games in the qualifying rounds and thus for the first time reached the main draw of a tournament of the ATP World Tour. In the first round he was able to prevail against German Benjamin Becker in three sets, but then was defeated in the second round against the Austrian Jurgen Melzer. In October, he qualified for the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo, but separated already in the first round against Gaël Monfils of.
At the U.S. Open 2009, İlhan qualified for the first time in his career for the main draw. In the qualifying tournament he had beaten the American Ryan Harrison, then just as the Frenchman Sebastien De Chaunac and the Brazilian Ricardo Mello. In the first round he defeated Belgian Christophe Rochus in the the five sets 6:3, 3:6, 6:3, 7:5 and 7:5, which meant a Turkish player's first victory at a Grand Slam. However ilhan defeated in the second round against the local hero John Isner 3:6, 4:6 and 6:71. Since the beginning of 2009 he is promoted from Yeşilyurt Sports Club.
2010
At the Australian Open, İlhan qualified as the first Turkish player in the main draw in Melbourne. Despite losing in the qualifying final against the Germans Dieter Kindl man he enlisted as a lucky loser for the injured Gilles Simon after the main draw. He reached for a victory over the French Sebastien Grosjean the second round, where he lost to the set at position eleven Fernando Gonzalez in three sets. Although he failed in qualification to Simone Bolelli in Roland Garros, but he reached the second round at Wimbledon after three successful qualification and a first-round match. In the first round İlhan was already leading 0-2 against Marcos Daniel back, but still won with 6:74, 4:6, 6:2, 6:3 and 6:1. Against the Romanian Victor Hanescu then he lost in four sets 4:6, 4:6, 6:3 and 3:6. At the U.S. Open, he was eliminated in the first qualifying round.
The climax of this season he had on September 20, where he won his second straight Challenger tournament in Banja Luka against the Spaniard Pere Riba in straight sets. The following week he reached the finals of the Challenger repeated in Izmir, but lost again, this time against Somdev Devvarman. At the end of the season he finished in 89th place in the ATP world rankings.
2011
At the tournament in Roland Garros Marsel İlhan defeated in the first round, former world ranked second Tommy Haas in four sets. In the second round he lost to Guillermo García- López in just five sets 4:6, 6:1, 2:6, 6:4 and 11:13.