Jaume Munar, Daniel Altmaier and Mattia Bellucci will take to court for the 2025 Marrakech Open on Tuesday, April 1. Get the best predictions and tips for the day from ATP Marrakech Open 2025.
Jaume Munar v Kamil Majchrzak
This is an interesting one in that when these two met before this, once in 2017 and another time in 2019, it was Kamil Majchrzak who had emerged a winner but things have changed drastically right now.
Jaume Munar has climbed up to 55th in the world and is on the verge of breaking into the top 50 for the first time in his career while Majchrzak has fallen outside the top 120 and needed to come through the qualifiers to feature in the main draw here.
A quarterfinalist here in 2019, Munar is coming off a third round appearance at the Miami Masters where he had gone down fighting to Gael Monfils. He had also made the semifinals at the Hong Kong Open and Dallas Open before that, pointing to a solid set of showings all season.
Majchrzak, on the other hand, hasn’t won a tour-level main draw match, having restricted his performances to the qualifiers of these events and the Challenger circuit.
Where Majchrzak does get a bit of respite is his career performances on clay have been consistent and while he might not have played too much at the highest level even last year, he had a 38-10 win-loss record on the surface.
Munar v Majchrzak Tip: Over 20.5 games in the match: 5/6
Daniel Altmaier v Otto Virtanen
World number 83 will be facing the 135th-ranked Otto Virtanen for the second time in his career – and for the second time this year too – with the duo having faced off indoors at Marseille in the first meeting.
Altmaier had won that encounter in straight sets in what turned out to be his best showing of the season when he reached the quarterfinals there. He has six main draw wins to his name this year though and none of them have come on clay with Altmaier featuring on the red dirt for the first time in 2025.
Virtanen has had it worse. Having not played on clay in 2025 too, he has just one main draw and three overall victories to go with nine losses. And while that has meant that he has fallen from 94th at the start of the year to 135th, Virtanen faces a bigger challenge in the form of his overall poor record on clay.
Expecting Altmaier to romp to a straightforward victory here.
Altmaier v Virtanen Tip: Altmaier to win in straight sets: 5/6
Mattia Bellucci v Pavel Kotov
Mattia Bellucci’s only previous meeting against Pavel Kotov had come on the Challenger circuit in 2023. They had faced off in a qualifier there and Kotov had won in straight sets.
Things have undergone a change since then with Bellucci having risen from being 177th at the end of the 2023 season to his current 71st rank while Kotov has had a steady decline and is outside the top 100 at the moment.
Interestingly, Kotov has had great returns in this tournament, having made the semifinals here in both its previous two editions. The only time Kotov has done better than that was in the 2023 Stockholm Open, leaving him with the confidence of his past performance here but also the pressure to defend those many points.
Bellucci had made the semifinal of the Rotterdam Open earlier this year with shock wins over Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas but since then he has played seven matches and lost six. His only win also came on the Challenger circuit.
This could lead to an interesting battle especially because Bellucci doesn’t play a lot of clay court matches either.
Bellucci v Kotov Tip: Three sets in the match: 6/5
