Week 9 Futures - Spain F8 ($10k) - Sabadell

steven · Tennis legend

Week 9 Futures - Spain F8 ($10k) - Sabadell

Smidster · Challenger level

QR1: (q14) David Rice WR 886 lost to Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios (ESP) UNR 6-4 2-6 7-5]
QR1: (q6) Matt Illingworth WR 702 lost to Morgan Phillips WR 1359 6-1 6-2
QR1: (q16) Alexander Ward WR 950 def Santos Sanchez-Patino (ESP) WR 1799 6-3 6-0

Have to say I am pleased Morgan won but the loss for Rice is a bad one

QR2: Morgan Phillips WR 1359 v Jeremias Lima-Perez UNR (ESP)
QR2: (q16) Alexander Ward WR 950 v Alessandro Faconda UNR (ITA)

steven · Tennis legend

I thought Morgan might win that one, but amazed at the scoreline. Hopefully it's confirmation that Morgan is getting close to his old form rather than Matt having a really bad day! He must be cursing the draw he got anyway!

Shock of the day has to be Dr No losing to J S-C Rios though - the Wardinator beat him 2 & 1 a couple of weeks ago!

Smidster · Challenger level

QR2: Morgan Phillips WR 1359 def Jeremias Lima-Perez UNR (ESP) 7-5 6-0
QR2: (q16) Alexander Ward WR 950 def Alessandro Faconda UNR (ITA) 6-2 6-3

QR3: Morgan Phillips WR 1359 lost to Marc Garcia-Roman (ESP) UNR 7-6 6-0
QR3: (q16) Alexander Ward WR 950 def (qWC) Marin Draganja UNR (CRO) 6-2 4-6 7-5

FQR: (q16) Alexander Ward v (q8) Oscar Sabate-Bretos (ESP) WR 715

What an odd day at the office for Morgan...lets hope the final set was just 'one of those things'

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q16) Alexander Ward WR 950 beat (q8) Oscar Sabate-Bretos (ESP) WR 715 by 6-1 4-6 6-2 biggrin

Another excellent win for Alex and as good a R1 draw as he could have hoped for as he tries to extend his 4-week ranking points-scoring streak - an unranked WC in R1, who has won some qualifying matches recently but is looking for his firt win over a player in the top 1000:

L32: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 950 v (WC) Gerard Gallego Bertran (ESP) UNR

-- Edited by steven at 18:11, 2009-03-01

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Alex & Ricey were in the doubles (WR 1732). They played an unranked pair today, Victor Anagnastopol (Alex's partner last week, if memory serves) & Xavier Morera, & lost 6-2 2-6 [8-10].

Close, but as usual, not quite close enough! cry

* Two seeds out of the singles already, both retirements: the fourth, José Checa, beaten by Leandro Migani (ARG) 0-6 1-2 rtd & the eighth, Gabriel Trujillo, beaten 0-6 2-3 rtd by the Spanish LL, Marc Giner!

freerider · Futures level

ward played the same tactic of losing the first set (6-3) then coming back 2 &2

got millman in round two (again!)

steven · Tennis legend

(now with 2 Mar rankings)

L32: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 926 beat (WC) Gerard Gallego Bertran (ESP) UNR by 3-6 6-2 6-2

L16: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 926 v John Millman (AUS) WR 456

Just as I'd hoped, five scoring weeks in a row for the Wardinator (who suddenly seems to have turned from out most mercurial player to our most consistent!) and Millman, whom he thrashed 2 & 2 last week, took out the no. 5 seed a faces him again in R2, as freerider pointed out. I'm sure the Australian will be up for revenge, but hopefully the margin of the win last week means that Alex has his number.

steven · Tennis legend

And the Wardinator has Millman's number for the second week in a row

L16: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 926 beat John Millman (AUS) WR 456 by 4 & 3 biggrin
QF: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 926 v (3) Marc Fornell-Mestres (ESP) WR 300

steven · Tennis legend

Having only ever reached one Futures QF before (in the midst of his wonder run to the Balaguer Final last May), 9 months later three more have come along at once!

Reaching those three QFs has entailed winning 6 matches in qualifying as well - he's 19-7 on the year overall.

freerider · Futures level

this is some splendid form for ward. if he beats fornell-mestres that would be so good!

Smidster · Challenger level

Another good win for Ward and shows last week wasn't a fluke. Just a shame he isn't in the other half of the draw.

Should also mean an SE for next week, although a week off would probably do him good, as qualifying starts tomorrow.

-- Edited by Smidster at 19:40, 2009-03-05

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the record, Fornell is one of only two seeds left, both in Alex's half of the draw, natch, as the other is the top seed, Daniel Silva (BRA)! hmm

steven · Tennis legend

Oh no:

QF: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 926 lost to (3) Marc Fornell-Mestres (ESP) WR 300 by 6-3 3-0 ret. cry

Hope it's nothing too bad.

Fitzy 4 top 100 · Social player

having spoken to alex i can infrom you.. that he pulled out due to a slight foot injury nothing to serious but he will be resting next week adn not playing the futures.