Marcos and American partner Eric Butorac are through to the BMW Open doubles final in Munich after edging Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 7-6(3), 1-6, 10-7 in 82 minutes on Saturday.
“I feel it’s great,” said Marcos, who was beaten in the first round of the singles this week by qualifier Evgeny Korolev. “The best thing for me now is spending a lot of time on court, especially winning matches. Even in doubles, it’s good for my confidence. I’m pretty happy, working on some things with my coach. It’s a good week.
“He’s a great guy,” said Marcos of his doubles partner. Butorac has won 13 ATP World Tour doubles trophies in his career. “It’s a bit different playing with a doubles player because you have to adapt to each other; they are more aggressive, more going to the net. We have to both had to adapt; it’s been challenging and fun.”
In today’s final, scheduled for 10:45am local time, Marcos and Butorac will take on another unseeded pairing, Jarkko Nieminen and Dmitry Tursunov. “It will be tough,” said Marcos. “We won the semi-final in a third set tie-break today. We have been very concentrated at the end of the matches. It will be a tough one tomorrow too. We’ll enjoy it and see what happens.”
After playing the doubles final, Marcos will be flying straight to Madrid to compete in the Mutua Madrid Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 clay-court event in the Spanish capital. Marcos has been drawn to face Spain’s Tommy Robredo in the first round. The veteran has enjoyed a resurgence in recent weeks, winning the Casablanca title and upsetting Tomas Berdych en route to the Barcelona quarter-finals.
“It will be a very tough match,” admitted Marcos. “Tommy has been around for a long time. Clay is his favourite surface. I’m looking forward to that one too. I’ll fight, give it my best and try to find the way to win.”
Marcos also wished to express his sympathies for the family of Brad Drewett, the ATP Executive Chairman & President, who passed away on Friday, aged 54. Drewett had battled Motor Neurone Disease (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
“I am very sad to hear about what happened to Brad. I wish his family condolences. He helped the sport a lot; he was in tennis for such a long time. The only thing we can say is may he rest in peace and condolences to his family
