Week 9 - Futures F4 (10k) Faro, Portugal (Return of Morgan Phillips)

XCW4EVA · County player

RE: Week 9 - Futures F4 (10k) Faro, Portugal (Return of Morgan Phillips)

steven · Tennis legend

Anybody's guess, but he's still on the entry list and not shown as a w/d.

steven · Tennis legend

Ditto Wardy btw ... I don't have an 'inside track' on any of the players (well, maybe one or two sometimes, if we're lucky!), so I just rely on published info most of the time.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Dont think there's any reason for Ward not to play here. Reaching the semis in Cuba on Friday doesn't stop you playing in Portugal on Monday or Tuesday.

Come on Morgan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

results page which may or may not become useful during the week.

http://www.tenisfaro.com/index.php?id=48478

(its not working atm!)

steven · Tennis legend

True, but I think the reason for the doubts about whether he'll want to play are that he's played 7 of the last 8 weeks.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Morgan won 6-2 7-5

-- Edited by johnnylad at 17:20, 2008-02-23

DeadRubber · Social player

Great to see Morgan back, fantastic for him to win on his return.
Here's hoping for an injury free period and some wins.

Salmon · Tennis legend

This feels incredible.

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Morgan Phillips UNR beat Ruben de la Rosa-Lopez (ESP) UNR by 2 & 5 smile

QR1: Luke Campbell UNR v Francisco Charters (POR) UNR (held over to Sunday)

QR2: Morgan Phillips UNR v (q2) Luis-Antonio Perez-Perez (ESP) WR 715
QR2: (q13) Tim Hewitt WR 1009 v Michael Rjazanov (GER) UNR or Juan Beaus-Barquin (ESP )UNR (still not decided)
QR2: Campbell or Charters v Guillaume Crasson (BEL) UNR (still not decided)
QR2: (q6) Neil Bamford WR 821 v Jorge Hernando-Ruano (ESP) WR 1494 or Pablo Illodo-Lado (ESP) UNR (still not decided)
QR2: (q14) Matthew Illingworth WR 1062 v Julien Lorenz (GER) UNR or Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 1494 (still not decided)

Aha, now I know why you only posted Morgan's result! wink

Still, might as well get the upcoming matches all on the current page. 40 matches (the rest of QR1 and all/most of QR2) are due to be played on Sunday. Morgan is 6th on Court 1.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

ITF had some results pretty early yesterday so I'll check throughout the afternoon!

steven · Tennis legend

It could be because they (I'm guessing) abandoned play early - with 7 matches on some courts today, I doubt it'll finish that early.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Great to see Morgan back and winning, lets (try) and keep it all in perspetive.....

steven · Tennis legend

Presumably because of the same bad weather that's been affecting the Portimao women's tournament, they only managed to get the rest of QR1 and one match in QR2 played today (results in a minute) - 3 more qualifying rounds to go before we get anywhere near the main draw!

steven · Tennis legend

That of course means just one GB result (at least it was a win!) and QR2 opponents now known for the rest:

QR1: Luke Campbell UNR beat Francisco Charters (POR) UNR by 1 & 3 smile

QR2: Morgan Phillips UNR v (q2) Luis-Antonio Perez-Perez (ESP) WR 715
QR2: (q13) Tim Hewitt WR 1009 v Juan Beaus-Barquin (ESP) UNR
QR2: Luke Campbell UNR v Guillaume Crasson (BEL) UNR
QR2: (q6) Neil Bamford WR 821 v Jorge Hernando-Ruano (ESP) WR 1494
QR2: (q14) Matthew Illingworth WR 1062 v Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 1494

steven · Tennis legend

Aha, the one QR2 result was a walkover. They're trying to play 47 matches tomorrow, 7 or 8 per court, starting at 09.00 GMT. They seem to be aiming to play one match per hour, which is a bit ambitious unless they've cut them to short sets, so good luck to them! Morgan is 1st up on Court 1 for his QR2 match.

That'll leave the FQR and, I assume, some main draw matches to be played on Tuesday. I assume the main draw will come out tomorrow night if they don't get rained off again tomorrow.