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Morgan has headed north and must have a chance of picking up a few points here. The Bishop has scraped in as a DA too and couldn't have asked for a more ok draw! smile.gif

L32: Paul Bishop WR 1638 v Oskars Vaskis (LAT) WR 1565
L32: Morgan Phillips WR 848 v (Q) Valentin Bazunov (RUS) UNR

Vaskis has a fairly even W/L record, mainly in Futures qualifying.

Bazunov got his sole ranking point just under a year ago, qualifying and then beating an unranked Azerbaijani in Georgia F2. He got double bagelled in R2 and then ran up a streak of 8 straight sets losses, being fed 10 bakery products in the process. His last loss was a 0-1 ret. loss to a Brit, Orion Modebe, in Romania but he did win two matches to qualify here in Estonia from a section with no ranked players in it.

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 12th of July 2009 05:28:30 PM

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steven wrote:

The Bishop has scraped in as a DA too and couldn't have asked for a more ok draw! smile.gif

He's also playing doubles, with the Estonian, Taavo Roos.  Only trouble is, typical Brit luck has struck again:  they've drawn the Finnish top seeds, our old friends, Harri Heliovaara & Timo Nieminen (WR 3243 plays WR 1010)! cry

 



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Taavo Roos was a regular pick 'em entrant when he wasn't playing on the tour quite so regularly, so that's two reasons for wanting them to win wink - sadly though, as you suggest, it's going to be an uphill struggle for them.

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L32: Paul Bishop WR 1638 lost to Oskars Vaskis (LAT) WR 1565 by 0 & 3 cry
L32: Morgan Phillips WR 848 beat (Q) Valentin Bazunov (RUS) UNR by 0 & 1 smile

L16:  Morgan Phillips WR 848 vs (7) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR) WR 566 or (Q) Jesse Kiuru (FIN) WR 1806

*  I know whom I'm backing to play Morgan in the last 16... cry

Edited to confirm the identity of Morgan's second-round opponent.  Pity I'm not a betting woman! hmm

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 15th of July 2009 10:13:29 AM

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Hurrah for Morgan!

Picking good events to get him back up where he belongs too!

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Good luck, Mors and Jaak Poldma.

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Impressive result from Morgan and he's done well to pick an event where he's going to at least pick up one point.

Don't see him getting any further though as Ignatik is a good player (although hasn't progressed as much as he perhaps should have and clay is his weakest surface), so maybe he's got more of a chance then we may think he has.

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Morgan will waste Ignatik on clay. The lad has gone nowhere in the last 12 months and Morgan is in form!

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johnnylad wrote:

Morgan will waste Ignatik on clay. The lad has gone nowhere in the last 12 months and Morgan is in form!


Looking at Ignatik's results, there''s only a couple of really bad results this year where he's lost to much lower ranked players, but there's hardly any wins over top 500 players so he seems to be beating who he is supposed to based on ranking.

Hasn't made the step up to the senior game at all (well, not to the level he'd have been expected to anyway), although he did win a futures event in clay last month so his season hasn't been a disaster.

Morgan definately has a chance if he does play well to get the win here, which would be a big scalp for him.

 



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Doubles R1

HELIOVAARA (FIN) / NIEMINEN (FIN) (1) defeated BISHOP (GBR) / ROOS (EST) 6-4 6-4



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morgan lost :(

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L16: Morgan Phillips WR 848 lost to (7) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR) WR 566 by 7-6(5) 7-6(6) cry

Very close sets!

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My days as a sports psychologist are now over. cry.gif

Good effort Morgan

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Close from Morgan, but he couldn't quite get the win in the end it seemed, although Ignatik is still a good player.

If Morgan can just get a good draw somewhere, he seems to be in the kind of form where he could do some damage.

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