Week 14 - Futures F11 ($10K) - Madrid, Spain - Clay

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 14 - Futures F11 ($10K) - Madrid, Spain - Clay

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Another Brit finalist: Morgan had a bit of a tussle with Daniel, but eventually got past him in three, 2-66-3 7-6(9)! biggrin The identity of his opponent is not yet known (Rochette or his doubles partner, Marrai).

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent news

- he is 2-5 in Finals, having won his first one in Italy in 2006 and his last one, also in Madrid last September, and lost the five in between.

steven · Tennis legend

SF: Morgan Phillips WR 494 beat (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN) WR 861 by 6-2 3-6 7-6(8)

FI: Morgan Phillips WR 494 v (5) Matteo Marrai (ITA) WR 434 (CH 279 in 2008)

Marrai had an even more topsy-turvy semi than Morgan, eventually beating top seed Rochette 6-3 0-6 7-6(4) - they have met three times before, all in early rounds - Morgan won their first meeting 6-1 6-7(3) 6-3 on clay in 2009, Marrai won the second 6-1 7-6(3) also on clay in Monza Challenger qualifying in 2010 and then the Italian also won their last meeting a few weeks ago in Portugal on outdoor hard 6-3 1-6 6-4.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
SF: Morgan Phillips WR 494 beat (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN) WR 861 by 6-2 3-6 7-6(8)

I'm clearly not having a good day! ashamed I found the result on the TeniSpain site & managed to get the result of the tie-break the wrong way round: Morgan took it by 9-7! wink

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
SF: Morgan Phillips WR 494 beat (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN) WR 861 by 6-2 3-6 7-6(8)

I'm clearly not having a good day! I found the result on the TeniSpain site & managed to get the result of the tie-break the wrong way round: Morgan took it by 9-7!

It does say 9-7 on the tenispain summary page for the tournament, but 10-8 on the drawsheet on both the tenispain and ATP sites, which is why I went with the latter. That really is a bit of a tenis pain! wink

steven · Tennis legend

Morgan wins his second Futures title in Madrid in less than a year! It will see him climb back into the GB top 10 on Monday week, dislodging Chris Eaton (a week after he dislodges David Rice from the GB top 10 this coming Monday) unless of course Chris does well enough in Johannesburg to stop him.

FI: Morgan Phillips WR 494 beat (5) Matteo Marrai (ITA) WR 434 by 1-6 6-1 6-4 biggrin

N.B. That's from the tenispain front page, the drawsheet hasn't been updated on ATP, TS or ITF yet, so the exact scoreline may be subject to change!

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 9th of April 2011 12:48:37 PM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Yeeaah Boi!!!!!!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Woohoo! Time for the true King of Clay to reclaim what is his own.

Smidster · Challenger level

Great stuff - Congratulations Morgan

He is also in sight of Career Highs which would be well deserved given his history of frustration.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Morgan's good friend (or at least formerly a good friend) Andujar-Alba has had a great week, too!