Spain F8 - Terrasa 10K (clay)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Spain F8 - Terrasa 10K (clay)

andyjmr · Intermediate Club Player

That's an excellent result. I've got high hopes for Morgan.

DeadRubber · Social player

Morgan!!!!!!

Stunning result hopefully he can at least reach another quarter final here.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Revenge!!!!

Now come on, Morgan! Just take this title.

-- Edited by Arka at 04:11, 2007-02-27

johnnylad · Tennis legend

You beauty! Having played 5 matches by Monday night it will be a tough ask to win the title but his draw should be open to at least the QF's now!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Next up is Guillem Burniol-Teixido. He's Spanish and ranked 485. Won R1 in straights but not as impressively as Morgan!

Morgan lost to his next opponent 6-1 6-4 in Jan 2004 but beat him 5-7 7-5 6-2 at the Tarragona Challenger last year!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Flanagan and Rushby are seeded 2nd in doubles

Sheddie · administrator

Wow, amazing rd1 win for Morgan !

He's really on fire this week, yet to drop more than 4 games in a match.

Burniol-Teixido beat a qualifier 6-2, 6-4 in rd1. He's on form having won a 10K at the end of January but maybe Morgan's close win in Tarragona last year will give him an edge.

Btw Johnny, I assume you mean that Flan and Rushby are in the doubles in Portugal unless they've found some super-cheap flights

johnnylad · Tennis legend

yup

Salmon · Tennis legend

Guillem Burniol (ESP) d. (q)Morgan Phillips (GBR) 6-3 1-6 7-5

andyjmr · Intermediate Club Player

Arka wrote:

Guillem Burniol (ESP) d. (q)Morgan Phillips (GBR) 6-3 1-6 7-5

Now that's an interesting scoreline. Looks similar to the kind of scores Andy was getting 18-24 months ago. Start slowly, realise you're going to lose the 1st set so conserve yourself, go all out in the 2nd set, and run out of puff at the last gasp in the 3rd.... or am I just talking gibberish because it's pretty late and I'm slightly tipsy. Oh well, I still have high hopes for Morgan.

steven · Tennis legend

It's very frustrating that he keeps getting these very good wins against seeds in R1 then loses to unseeded players in R2 so only gets one point to show for it. He's clearly got the talent to string a good run of wins together at thi level, I just hope he does soon!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yes, but do consider that he had to win four rounds of qualifying to get to the main draw! So five matches in five days before this....

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Hard luck. I think his opponent is fairly evenly matched with him considering their head to head and the score in this match.

He'll be top 400 at least by year end!