Marc Fornell Mestres Explained

Marc Fornell Mestres
Birth Date:	26 January 1982
Birth Place:	Barcelona, Spain
Plays:	Right-handed
Careerprizemoney:	$231,848
Singlesrecord:	0–1
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 236 (19 November 2007)
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 167 (16 July 2007)

Marc Fornell Mestres (born 26 January 1982) is a professional tennis player from Spain. He has captured two ATP Challenger Series/Tour titles.^{[1] [2]} Fornell Mestres's career-high ATP singles entry ranking is World No. 236, achieved on 19 November 2007.

On 31 December 2018, he was provisionally suspended from tennis for leading a match-fixing group.^[3] In 2022, Fornell Mestres was convicted of match fixing and received a 2-year suspended prison sentence and a 450€ fine. He was also fined $250,000 and banned from professional tennis for 22 years and 6 months by the International Tennis Integrity Agency.^{[4] [5]}

Career titles

Singles (15)

Legend (singles)
Grand Slam (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 (0)
ATP World Tour 250 (0)
ATP Challenger Tour (0)
ITF Futures (15)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	10 June 2001	Agadir	Clay	Rabie Chaki	6–3, 6–0
2.	16 June 2002	Canary Islands	Clay	Marc Marco Ripoll	7–5, 2–6, 6–0
3.	24 August 2003	Irún	Clay	Zhu Benqiang	1–6, 6–2, 6–4
4.	5 September 2004	Oviedo	Clay	Carlos Cuadrado	7–5, 4–6, 6–4
5.	7 May 2006	Vic	Clay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	6–1, 6–4
6.	30 July 2006	Dénia	Clay	Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal	7–5, 3–6, 6–3
7.	20 August 2006	Irún	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	7–5, 2–6, 6–3
8.	26 November 2006	Maspalomas	Clay	Gero Kretschmer	6–4, 6–3
9.	28 October 2007	Sant Cugat del Vallès	Clay	Javier Genaro-Martínez	6–3, 4–6, 7–5
10.	4 November 2007	Vilafranca del Penedès	Clay	Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras	6–4, 6–4
11.	1 November 2009	Sant Cugat del Vallès	Clay	José Checa Calvo	2–6, 6–4, 6–2
12.	25 July 2010	Gandia	Clay	Juan Lizariturry	7–6, 3–6, 6–2
13.	8 August 2010	Xàtiva	Clay	Juan Lizariturry	6–3, 6–2
14.	15 May 2011	Kenitra	Clay	Tak Khunn Wang	6–4, 7–5
15.	30 Nov 2014	Kish	Clay	Toni Androic	6–1, 6–1

Doubles (42)

Legend (singles)
Grand Slam (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 (0)
ATP World Tour 250 (0)
ATP Challenger Tour (2)
ITF Futures (40)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	30 Aug 2000	Vigo	Clay	Didac Pérez	Pedro Pereira & António van Grichen	4–2, 4–1, 4–2
2.	18 Aug 2002	Vigo	Clay	Ferran Ventura-Martell	Eduardo Nicolás & Norikazu Sugiyama	6–4, 6–4
3.	25 Aug 2002	Irun	Clay	Ferran Ventura-Martell	Alejandro Falla & Carlos Salamanca	7–6^(7–3), 6–1
4.	22 Sep 2002	Barcelona	Clay	Mariano Albert-Ferrando	Carlos Berlocq & Juan Pablo Brzezicki	7–6^(7–5), 7–5
5.	18 Jul 2004	Elche	Clay	Ivan Esquerdo-Andreu	Antonio Baldellou-Esteva & Germán Puentes	6–2, 6–1
6.	25 Jul 2004	Gandia	Clay	Ivan Esquerdo-Andreu	Antonio Baldellou-Esteva & Germán Puentes	6–2, 6–3
7.	24 Oct 2004	Barcelona	Clay	Mario Munoz-Bejarano	Gorka Fraile & David Marrero	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
8.	20 Feb 2005	Totana	Hard	Marcel Granollers	Filip Urban & Marius Zay	6–2, 6–3
9.	27 Feb 2005	Cartagena, Spain	Clay	Alberto Soriano-Maldonado	Mariano Albert-Ferrando & Francisco Mendez-Garcia	6–4, 6–3
10.	10 Apr 2005	Angers	Clay	Daniel Monedero-Gonzalez	Nicolas Renavand & Nicolas Tourte	7–6^(9–7), 1–6, 6–4
11.	1 May 2005	Lleida	Clay	Pablo Andújar	Rafael Arévalo & Komlavi Loglo	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
12.	29 May 2005	Reus	Clay	Komlavi Loglo	David Marrero & Pablo Santos	5–7, 7–5, 6–1
13.	24 Jul 2005	Gandia	Clay	Jordi Marsé-Vidri	David Marrero & Pablo Santos	4–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
14.	21 Aug 2005	Irun	Clay	Daniel Monedero-Gonzalez	Augustin Gensse & Julien Jeanpierre	6–4, 6–4
15.	7 May 2006	Vic	Clay	Jordi Marsé-Vidri	Antonio Baldellou-Esteva & Germán Puentes	2–6, 6–3, 7–5
16.	16 Jul 2006	Elche	Clay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	Mounir El Aarej & David Luque-Velasco	6–3, 6–0
17.	30 Jul 2006	Dénia	Clay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	Oriol Hernandez-Pastor & Javier Ruiz-Gonzalez	7–6^(7–5), 6–2
18.	3 Sep 2006	Oviedo	Clay	Juan-Miguel Such-Perez	Miguel Ángel López Jaén & David Marrero	7–6^(7–2), 6–4
19.	25 Nov 2006	Maspalomas	Clay	Cesar Ferrer-Victoria	Sascha Hesse & Mark Joachim	6–0, 6–4
20.	18 Mar 2007	Badalona	Clay	Jordi Marsé-Vidri	Miguel Ángel López Jaén & Pablo Santos	6–1, 6–2
21.	25 June 2007	Constanţa	Clay	Gabriel Trujillo-Soler	Gabriel Moraru & Horia Tecău	6–4, 6–4
22.	2 July 2007	Montauban	Clay	Gabriel Trujillo-Soler	Adriano Biasella & Jean-René Lisnard	6–3, 7–5
23.	27 Oct 2007	Sant Cugat del Vallès	Sant Cugat	Clay	Jordi Marsé-Vidri	Miguel Ángel López Jaén & David Marrero	5–7, 6–0, [10–4]
24.	12 Apr 2008	Málaga	Clay	David Rice	Óscar Burrieza & Nikolai Nesterov	1–6, 6–2, [10–7]
25.	22 Mar 2009	Castelldefels	Clay	Gerard Granollers	Stefano Ianni & Mattia Livraghi	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
26.	29 May 2009	Telde	Clay	Gerard Granollers	Sergio Gutiérrez Ferrol & Rafael Mazon-Hernandez	6–3, 6–4
27.	23 May 2010	Valldoreix	Clay	David Cañudas-Fernández		6–3, 7–6^(7–2)
28.	18 Jul 2010	Elche	Clay	Carlos Calderon-Rodriguez	Juan Beaus-Barquin & Juan José Leal-Gómez	6–4, 6–2
29.	8 Aug 2010	Xàtiva	Clay	Carlos Calderon-Rodriguez	Goncalo Falcao & Martin Trueva	6–1, 6–3
30.	16 Jan 2011	Majorca	Clay	Pablo Santos		6–1, 6–3
31.	2 Apr 2011	Reus	Clay	Mike Vermeer	Jan-Lennard Struff & Richard Waite	7–6^(7–3), 6–7^(1–7), [10–8]
32.	14 May 2011	Kenitra	Clay	Mike Vermeer		5–7, 7–5, [10–3]
33.	21 May 2011	Rabat	Clay	Mike Vermeer		6–1, 6–4
34.	30 Nov 2014	Kish	Clay	Marco Neubau	Tomislav Jotovski & Duje Kekez	6–4, 6–4
35.	7 Dec 2014	Kish	Clay	Marco Neubau	Markus Sedletzky & Dominic Weidinger	6–3, 6–1
36.	14 Mar 2015	Antalya	Clay	Marco Neubau	Rafael Camilo & Eduardo Russi	6–4, 6–2
37.	12 Mar 2016	Agadir	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	Marcos Giraldi Requena & Jacob Kahoun	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, [13–11]
38.	19 Mar 2016	Beni Mellal	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	Filippo Leonardi & Fabio Mercuri	6–3, 7–5
39.	30 Jul 2017	Xàtiva	Clay	Sergio Martos Gornés		6–3, 6–2
40.	21 Oct 2017	Pula, Sardinia	Clay	Fred Gil	Filippo Baldi & Andrea Pellegrino	6–2, 5–7, [10–5]
41.	28 Oct 2017	Pula, Sardinia	Clay	Fred Gil		3–6, 6–1, [10–8]
42.	26 Nov 2017	Hammamet, Tunisia	Clay	Fred Gil		6–2, 6–4

Notes and References

1. [Real Federación Española de Tenis]
2. http://www.abcdesevilla.es/hemeroteca/historico-02-07-2008/sevilla/Cordoba/los-espa%C3%B1oles-miguel-angel-lopez-y-marc-fornell-pasan-a-la-segunda-ronda_1641975316409.html Hemeroteca 02/07/2008 Los españoles Miguel Ángel López y Marc Fornell pasan a la segunda ronda
3. Web site: ITIA - marc fornell mestres provisionally suspended tennis.
4. News: Six Spanish players banned for match-fixing . BBC Sport.
5. Web site: ITIA - Six Spanish players banned . ITIA . en.