Week 10 - Futures F5 (10k) - Lagos, Portugal

Drew · Feb 28, 2008

Week 10 - Futures F5 (10k) - Lagos, Portugal

john · Top national player

Morgan!

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Fingers crossed for our boys!

Come on Morgan!!!

wolf · Tennis legend

4 rounds to qualify.

QR1
Matthew Illingworth v Michal Schmid (Cze)
Burnham Aldridge v Julien Lorenz (Ger)
Tim Hewitt v Francisco Dias (Por)
Joshua Morris v Jonathan Florez-Cohen (Esp)
Ben Dunbar v Florian Reynet (Fra) (15)
Luke Campbell v Remko De Rijke (Ned)
Neil Bamford (14) v bye
Chris Eaton (8) v bye
Morgan Phillips v Pedro Sousa (Por)
Martin Baker v Francisco Charters (Por)

Phillips will play Eaton in QR2 if he wins.

steven · Tennis legend

Apart from Morgan potentially playing Chris Eaton in R2, the other bad news about this Future is that it's stronger than this week's, when Bammy was seeded 6 in qualifying and Chris got a DA. That's particularly worrying when you remember what a mess they made of the 'easy' Portuguese Future this week!

Comparative rankings are:

Illingworth WR 1063 - opponent unranked
Hewitt WR 1010 - opponent unranked
Dunbar unranked - opponent WR 857
Campbell unranked - opponent WR 1095
Bammy WR 820 could meet WR 989 in QR2
Eaton WR 645 will meet Phillips WR 1403 or Sousa WR 1492 in QR2

In the other matches Wolf listed, both players are unranked.

john · Top national player

Ben Dunbar's a pretty good player, seen him a few times in Corby. Think this is the first time he's played an overseas Futures so will be interesting to see how he does.

Morgan got a good chance to pick up another win in the first round and the match against Eaton should give us a good idea where his game's at. Hard to see him winning it though, might have to wait another week or two before he picks up points again.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Sousa is a pretty tough draw for Morgan imho.

Anyone know where Slabba is this week?

steven · Tennis legend

It looks like it's raining in the Algarve again, with only the first two (out of 7 or 8) matches on each court completed:

Completed today

QR1: Matthew Illingworth WR 1063 beat Michal Schmid (CZE) UNR by 3 & 2 smile
QR1: Joshua Morris lost to Pascal Benz (GER) by 0 & 1 cry

Held over to Sunday

QR1: Burnham Aldridge UNR v Julien Lorenz (GER) UNR
QR1: Tim Hewitt WR 1010 v Francisco Dias (POR) UNR
QR1: Ben Dunbar UNR v (15) Florian Reynet (FRA) WR 857
QR1: Luke Campbell UNR v Remko De Rijke (NED) WR 1095
QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1403 v Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 1492
QR1: Martin Baker UNR v Francisco Charters (POR) UNR

QR2 matches that will definitely involve GB players

QR2: Matthew Illingworth WR 1063 v Alvaro Gragera (ESP) UNR
QR2: (14) Neil Bamford WR 820 v Laurent Vigne (FRA) WR 989 or Jordy Looman (NED) UNR
QR1: (8) Chris Eaton WR 645 v Phillips or Sousa

-- Edited by steven at 18:40, 2008-03-01

steven · Tennis legend

Well what do you know, turns out that was an intra-day update - never seen that on the ATP site for a Future before - and now R1 has been completed. Just getting the results together ...

steven · Tennis legend

Right, let's try again:

QR1: Matthew Illingworth WR 1063 beat Michal Schmid (CZE) UNR by 3 & 2 smile
QR1: Burnham Aldridge UNR beat Julien Lorenz (GER) UNR by 6-2 2-6 7-6(4) smile
QR1: Tim Hewitt WR 1010 beat Francisco Dias (POR) UNR by 3 & 4 smile
QR1: Joshua Morris lost to Pascal Benz (GER) UNR by 0 & 1 cry
QR1: Ben Dunbar UNR lost to (15) Florian Reynet (FRA) WR 857 by 0 & 3 cry
QR1: Luke Campbell UNR lost to Remko De Rijke (NED) WR 1095 by 4-6 6-2 6-2 cry
QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1403 lost to Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 1492 by 2 & 4 cry
QR1: Martin Baker UNR beat Francisco Charters (POR) UNR by 6-0 4-6 6-2 smile

Sadly, but perhaps predictably, it looks more and more like Morgan will drop out of the rankings before he starts scoring points again. Still, it's a good strategy to play without using his PR now and then make use of it when he's back into the swing of things and has a chance of winning main draw matches.

QR2: Matthew Illingworth WR 1063 v Alvaro Gragera (ESP) UNR
QR2: Burnham Aldridge UNR v (q4) Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (ROU) WR 592
QR2: Tim Hewitt WR 1010 v Amarit Sanchez-Thammakrong (ESP) UNR
QR2: (14) Neil Bamford WR 820 v Laurent Vigne (FRA) WR 989
QR2: (8) Chris Eaton WR 645 v Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 1492
QR2: Martin Baker UNR v Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 1403

Half a dozen Brits in QR2 - could be worse! smile

Josh · Challenger level

Also a Croat some people might have heard of before is in the draw, Ivan Ljubicic has beaten an unranked belgian in the first round.

From top 5 to futures qualifying in just over a year ashamed

steven · Tennis legend

I wonder how many people looking at that draw think it's the same person. Still, it must be fun for those who beat him ... "I beat Ivan Ljubicic today!"

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Illingworth and Hewitt are the only Two remaining unfortunately

Well done to them!

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: Matthew Illingworth WR 1063 beat Alvaro Gragera (ESP) UNR by 2 & 3 smile

QR2: Burnham Aldridge UNR lost to (q4) Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (ROU) WR 592 by 2 & 2 cry

QR2: Tim Hewitt WR 1010 beat Amarit Sanchez-Thammakrong (ESP) UNR by 1 & 4 smile

QR2: (14) Neil Bamford WR 820 lost to Laurent Vigne (FRA) WR 989 by 2-6 6-1 6-2 bleh

QR2: (8) Chris Eaton WR 645 lost to Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 1492 by 5 & 1 bleh

QR2: Martin Baker UNR lost to Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 1403 by 3 & 0 cry

Well done to Illingworth & Hewitt, but we seem to be heading for another disaster in Portugal, with no Brits having beaten a ranked opponent here in Lagos yet cry

Neil and Chris going out at least two rounds before they were seeded to cry

and already another double Brit-killer in Sousa, the fourth so far including Faro cry

- not a nice draw for Morgan or Chris, but even so, someone's got to stop these players! wink

QR3: Matthew Illingworth WR 1063 v (q9) Aleksandr Yarmola (UKR) WR 667
QR3: Tim Hewitt WR 1010 v (q5) Maxime Authom (BEL) WR 593

Authom only just missed out on an SE, losing to Machado in the Faro main draw QFs, having beaten Sousa (a LL last week) in R2. Yarmola's not too bad either. In other words, I doubt there will be any GB qualifiers this week either.

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

I agree there won't be any Brit Qualifiers!

Still waiting for Eaton to spring to life, he's a great talent..............Hewitt might just pull a rabbit out of a hat though! I doubt it but we'll see!