QR2: James Allemby UNR lost to Rafal Gozdur (POL) UNR by 1 & 2
QR2: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 beat Esat Tanik (TUR) UNR by 2 & 0

QR3: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v Florian Farnleitner (AUT) UNR

Morgan PHILLIPS (GBR) (11) defeated Andrei CIUMAC (MDA) (5) 6-3 6-1

thats a nice strong qualies run. Phillips is probs playing as i type this in turkey - i think he has a great chance of going deep in one of these turkish futures

freerider wrote:

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phillips stuffed the seed 2 & 4!!

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 ... so you could say that asking a seed in Turkey if they're looking forward to playing Morgan is like asking a Turkey if they're looking forward to Christmas. (errm, I'll get my coat ... )

That may well be Morgan's most convincing result since his comeback.

L32: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 beat Roman Jebavy (CZE) 463 by 2 & 4

L16: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v Haluk Akkoyun (TUR) WR 841

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 06:14:02 PM

Great win for Morgan, and his results this season do suggest that on the whole he is playing somewhere near the level he was at before the first injury, but he's not quite there yet, and having to play 3 qualifying matches each week cannot help as well.

Hopefully he'll be able to make the QF's here and steadily be able to move his ranking up to where we all know it should be about.

Unfortunately, Morgan wasn't so lucky in the doubles:  he & his French partner, Stéphane Piro, seem to have given it their best shot, but couldn't quite pull it off, losing 3-6 6-1 [6-10].

Another good solid win for Morgan, and while Gorban is a tough opponent, it will be a good test as to where he is at - not expecting anything from the match, but it would be a massive win if he could beat him.