While the big guns compete this week in Barcelona,
Nicolas Massu will try and leverage the weak field as the top seed at the Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca.
Massu won the claycourt title earlier this year at Costa Do Sauipe, his lone title in 2006.
Also among the seeds are Peru's
Luis Horna, Belgian
Christophe Rochus, Italians
Andreas Seppi and Danielle Bracciali, Frenchmen Aranud Clement and
Gilles Simon, and Austrian
Jurgen Melzer.
Casablanca is without a player ranked in the Top 30 on the ATP Rankings.
In last year's final, Argentine Mariano Puerta, currently serving a career death sentence for doping, beat countryman
Juan Monaco for the title.
