Week 38 - Futures - Spain F34 ($10K) - Madrid - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

Week 38 - Futures - Spain F34 ($10K) - Madrid - Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

R1: PHILLIPS, M [6] WR 484 beat Q ARENAS-GUALDA, Ivan (ESP) 6-2 6-4 smile

SMC1809 · All-time great

R2: PHILLIPS, M [6] WR 484 v SAMPER-MONTANA, J (ESP) WR 1009

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 05:17:40 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

R2: Morgan PHILLIPS (GBR) (6) defeated Jordi SAMPER-MONTANA (ESP) 6-3 6-4 smile

QF: Roberto ORTEGA-OLMEDO (ESP) WR 861 Vs Morgan PHILLIPS (GBR) (6)

indiana · Tennis legend

QF : (6) Morgan PHILLIPS WR 488 beat Roberto ORTEGA-OLMEDO (ESP) WR 861 3 - 6 6 - 3 6 -1

Now plays a Polish 19 yo who beat the no 1 seed in 3 sets in the QF.

SF : (6) Morgan PHILLIPS WR 488 vs Piotr GADOMSKI (POL) WR 761

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 24th of September 2010 07:30:37 PM

Drew · Sep 24, 2010

Go Morgan...

steven · Tennis legend

Morgan is 0-4 in Futures semis this year (he last won a semi this week last year in Portugal) and Gadomski is 0-2 in Futures semis ever, so something has to give!

indiana · Tennis legend

And it's Morgan's losing semi final record this year that gives. He's in the final smile

SF : (6) Morgan PHILLIPS WR 488 beat Piotr GADOMSKI (POL) WR 761 3 - 6 7 - 6 (6) 7 - 6 (4)

F : (6) Morgan PHILLIPS WR 488 vs (3) Javier MARTI (ESP) WR 410

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent

- he still needs another win to defend all his points from the Final in Portugal this week last year since that was a 15K, but there's no reason why he shouldn't win - too close to call, I'd say.

Drew · Sep 25, 2010

Super run Morgan !

just one more game lad

indiana · Tennis legend

To be honest, the draw seems to have opened up a bit for Morgan and the highest ranked player he has had to beat to reach the final is WR 761.

But you can only beat what's in front of you and he's managed to do that, even if the semi does look a bit of a struggle. How often have draws seemed to open up and not been taken advantage of ?

Looks quite a bit tougher task in the final, and will probably need to be at his best. All the best to Morgan.

steven · Tennis legend

He may have got to the Final the 'easy' way, but what a way to prove he merited his place once he got there! biggrin

FI: (6) Morgan Phillips WR 488 beat (3) Javier Martí (ESP) WR 410 by 1 & 4 biggrin

This is Morgan's second career Futures, breaking a run of five losses in finals since he won the Napoli Future way back in May 2006, and quite a way to defend the points from his biggest week last year, a Final loss in a 15K in Portugal in 2009 week 38.

This means that having won just 1 Futures singles title in Jan-Mar and 1 in Apr-Jun, the GB men have won 11 in the last 3 months!

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 26th of September 2010 12:04:05 PM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Morgan is back!

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Well done Morgan, what a fantastic performance. Marti is a decent player too, an 18 year old kid on the up. Quite surprised with the win here.

helki · Futures qualifying

Morgan.