How come Barnes managed a WC?

QR1: Costin Paval ROU beat Ashley Watling GBR 6-1 6-3
QR1: Phillip Stephens beat Alastair Barnes 6-4 6-7(4) 6-2  


QR2: Phillip Stephens GBR beat 4 Kaes Van Hof USA 7-6(7) 6-3


FQR: Phillip Stephens vs 6 Daniel Garza MEX

Garza is ranked 723 with a career high of 406. He plays mainly on clay with a futures final this year and a couple of semis. Scarily he beat WR67 Pablo Cuevas in four sets in Davis Cup this year - on carpet

-- Edited by The Knight on Sunday 13th of September 2009 09:36:57 AM

http://www.tulsahurricane.com/sports/m-tennis/mtt/stephens_philip00.html

R1
(WC) Philip Stephens & Ashley Watling beat Malek Jaziri (TUN) & Costin Paval (ROU) 6-4, 7-6(4)
Nima Roshan (AUS) & Artem Sitak (RUS) beat (WC) Alastair Barnes & Thomas Liversage (RSA) 6-3, 6-0

QF
(WC) Philip Stephens & Ashley Watling v (2) Brendan Evans (USA) & Frank Moser (GER)

seeing as they're college boys, they probably play a load of doubles (possibly together) but that is still a great win

wolf wrote:

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SF
(WC) Philip Stephens & Ashley Watling v Bruno Rodriguez & Victor Romero (MEX)

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They've only been & gone & won that as well, by 3 & 4!

Final:

(WC) Phillip Stephens & Ashley Watling vs (1) David Martin & Rajeev Ram (USA/USA)

*  A minimum of 45 ranking points in the bag!

Great to see them in a challenger final and it would be even better if they could sneak away with the title here.

Hopefully this will give them a huge boost for when they go back to college and when they do return to playing full time they will know that they can compete at a good level.