Week 22 - Futures F15 (15k) - Cesena, Italy

Drew · May 23, 2008

Week 22 - Futures F15 (15k) - Cesena, Italy

seagull · Hall of fame

No he isn't!

XCW4EVA · County player

Go Morgan, Should be hopefully gettinghis fitness and form!

Drew · May 23, 2008

seagull wrote:

No he isn't!

Currently on the alts entry list ranking listed as 1660

Do you know he is not playing here for sure Seagull ?

steven · Tennis legend

Yes he is ...

QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1736 v (WC) Marco Giangrandi (ITA) UNR
QR1: Thomas Deighton UNR v (q8) Giacomo Miccini WR 1781

The winners of both of these matches will play an unranked Italian for a place in the main draw. Big chance for Thomas, I'd say, and it would be shocking if Morgan didn't make it.

Salmon · Tennis legend

I'm not sure if Deighton has a big chance.

I think he'll easily lose to Miccini, who's one of the best 1992 kids out there - last year he took six games off Sanguinetti in a match plus has beaten many quality players on the Junior tour, where he's ranked 35 even though he's two years underage. Good luck for the upset, though!

Come on, Morgan. I'd love to see you get a point this week.

steven · Tennis legend

Ah, I hadn't realised Miccini was that young - I was just going on ranking and the fact that Thomas seems to be one of the better unranked Brits.

Is that Bam Bam in your avatar?

James · Satellite level

It looks a bit like a guy called Somdev Dev Varman to me; although that is very random.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Amazed that an Italian 15K futures has such a week draw and Morgan will be delighted to know he just has to beat 2 unranked players to qualify

Hopefully we can get a nice draw here as well and can get another point on the board and get back to where he was before the injury

XCW4EVA · County player

Morgan should get in the MD here, time for the proper comeback i think

Salmon · Tennis legend

James wrote:

It looks a bit like a guy called Somdev Dev Varman to me; although that is very random.

You have a good eye! It is Somdev.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 14:20, 2008-05-24

Salmon · Tennis legend

Morgan won by 2 and 2.

Deighton lost by 4 and 1.

Morgan plays the unranked Italian, Daniele Giuliani, for a place in the main draw. Giuliani doesn't seem to be much of an international player these days, it seem, since he has played just a tournament each in the last two years, without much success. But in 2005, he took Haase to a tiebreak and took a set off serial Brit killer Ricky Ghedin.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 21:13, 2008-05-24

Salmon · Tennis legend

Mors won by 2 and 2.

He plays Jonathan Gonzalia of Argentina, ranked 434 and finalist or better at four Futures in the last year, so Morgan will need to gt back to his old level to win this.

In spite of the weak qualies draw, the eighth seed here is ranked 375. The eight seed in mains/eighth seed in qualies value comes to 0.21, which I THINK is abnormally low for a Futures being played in the mainland of a country.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Greenleaf wrote:

Mors won by 2 and 2.

He plays Jonathan Gonzalia of Argentina, ranked 434 and finalist or better at four Futures in the last year, so Morgan will need to gt back to his old level to win this.

In spite of the weak qualies draw, the eighth seed here is ranked 375. The eight seed in mains/eighth seed in qualies value comes to 0.21, which I THINK is abnormally low for a Futures being played in the mainland of a country.

There's also a challenger in Italy this week so you'd have to think some of the players have chosen to try their luck at the challenger, but the qualies here is ridiculously week.

Well done to Morgan for qualifying here, but it's going to be a tough match for him to win to get another point.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Morgan has teamed up with the Italian, Mattia Livraghi, in the doubles. They play the all-German pairing of Peter Gojowczyk & Bastian Knittel (WR 1335) in the first round!