Week 5 Futures F4 ($10K) - Spain

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Week 5 Futures F4 ($10K) - Spain

wolf · Tennis legend

QR1: Nikki Roenn UNR v Alberto Rodriguez-Cervantes (ESP) UNR
QR1: (q3) Alexander Ward WR 978 v (qWC) Pedro Vera Castillo (ESP) UNR
QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1886 v Mario Cuellar-Gonzalez (ESP) WR 1379
QR1: Ben Pritchard WR 1435 v (q10) Milos Sekulic (SWE) WR 1435

-- Edited by wolf at 14:08, 2009-01-31

wolf · Tennis legend

QR1: Alberto Rodriguez-Cervantes (ESP) UNR beat Nikki Roenn UNR 6-4, 6-1 cry

QR1: (q3) Alexander Ward WR 978 beat (qWC) Pedro Vera Castillo (ESP) UNR 6-0, 6-0 smile

QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1886 beat Mario Cuellar-Gonzalez (ESP) WR 1379 7-6(2), 6-4 biggrin

QR1: (q10) Milos Sekulic (SWE) WR 1435 beat Ben Pritchard WR 1435 6-1, 6-0 cry

QR2: (q3) Alexander Ward WR 978 v Ivan Arenas-Gualda (ESP) UNR
QR2: Morgan Phillips WR 1886 v (q5) Carlos Cuenca-Navarro (ESP) WR 1080

wolf · Tennis legend

Some excellent results from Alex and Morgan in Spain and they are rewarded with decent first round draws.

QR2: (q3) Alexander Ward WR 978 beat Ivan Arenas-Gualda (ESP) UNR 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 smile

QR2: Morgan Phillips WR 1886 beat (q5) Carlos Cuenca-Navarro (ESP) WR 1080 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 biggrin

FQR: (q3) Alexander Ward WR 978 beat (q14) Juan Beaus-Barquin (ESP) WR 1287 6-3, 6-4 smile

FQR: Morgan Phillips WR 1886 beat Rafael Mazon-Hernandez (ESP) WR 1524 6-2, 6-3 biggrin

And switching to the 2nd February rankings for the main draw.

(Q) Alexander Ward WR 973 v (Q) Dmitri Perevoshchikov (RUS) WR 1026
(Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1493 v Romano Frantzen (NED) WR 766

After playing two matches in a day today the boys have a rest tomorrow.

Smidster · Challenger level

Good to see them qualifying including a couple of encouraging wins for Morgan

Just hope it is all worth it by making use of decent draws.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done to them for qualifying, and hopefully they can take advantage of their relatively decent draws and get some points here, and it definately looks like Morgan is over his injury problems and he is back to playing at a level he was before his injury.

Josh · Challenger level

R1: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 973 beat (Q) Dmitri Perevoshchikov (RUS) WR 1026 6-3 3-6 6-3 smile
R1: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1493 beat Romano Frantzen (NED) WR 766 1 & 3 biggrin

helki · Futures qualifying

Two good wins,

especially Morgan's.

Both guys are on again tomorrow, Alex v the 6th seed from Italy, Arnaboldi, & Morgan v the German, Stebe, who saw off the Spanish 2nd seed, Checa-Calvo.

Alex is also playing his doubles match after receiving passage into the QFs when the aforementioned Checa-Calvo & partner withdrew. wink

-- Edited by helki at 19:53, 2009-02-04

wolf · Tennis legend

That's only The Wardinator's 3rd point since that run to a final last year, and one of those was the week after!

R2: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 973 v (6) Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA) WR 360
R2: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1493 v (WC) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) WR 785

R1
MORERA-BALCELLS (ESP) / WARD (GBR) defeated CHECA-CALVO (ESP) / OLASO (ESP) (3) Walkover

QF
MORERA-BALCELLS (ESP) / WARD (GBR) Vs CUENCA-NAVARRO (ESP) / SANCHEZ-DE LUNA (ESP)

EDIT: Helki beat me to it with a naughty edit!

-- Edited by wolf at 19:58, 2009-02-04

helki · Futures qualifying

wolf wrote:

That's only The Wardinator's 3rd point since that run to a final last year, and one of those was the week after!

R2: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 973 v (6) Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA) WR 360
R2: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1493 v (WC) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) WR 785

R1
MORERA-BALCELLS (ESP) / WARD (GBR) defeated CHECA-CALVO (ESP) / OLASO (ESP) (3) Walkover

QF
MORERA-BALCELLS (ESP) / WARD (GBR) Vs CUENCA-NAVARRO (ESP) / SANCHEZ-DE LUNA (ESP)

EDIT: Helki beat me to it with a naughty edit!

-- Edited by wolf at 19:58, 2009-02-04

Sorry!

Smidster · Challenger level

Fantastic to see Ward getting another point and Morgan Following up last week QF.

Stebe seems like a good prospect - reached semi finals at Orange Bowl and is a grand slam winner (US open doubles)

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good to see Ward getting himself back in the points, but Morgan's win looks very impressive and is seemingly confirming that he does look to be back to somewhere near his best and he doesn't look to have rushed his comeback.

Stebe is a decent prospect, but Morgan should have a decent chance of beating him as long as he keeps playing at this level, and hopefully within the next few months he can get back to the verge of the top 500 where he was before it all started to go wrong a couple of years ago

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The Brits in Spain succumbed to "Brit tennis players abroad" disease today: Alex lost 4 & 4 & Morgan 6-4 0-6 (

) 3-6!

Alex also lost his doubles match 4 & 4.

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 19:53, 2009-02-05

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

The Brits in Spain succumbed to "Brit tennis players abroad" disease today: Alex lost 4 & 4 & Morgan 6-4 0-6 ( ) 6-3! Alex also lost his doubles match 4 & 4.

Shame. Not totally unexpected, however. doh

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:

The Brits in Spain succumbed to "Brit tennis players abroad" disease today: Alex lost 4 & 4 & Morgan 6-4 0-6 ( ) 6-3! Alex also lost his doubles match 4 & 4.

Shame. Not totally unexpected, however.

Given that they were both qualifiers playing more highly-ranked opponents, especially in Alex's case, no, but have just realised that the way I expressed Morgan's result (original post now edited) actually made it look as though he might in fact have won, hence this reply...