Morgan served for the matched at 5-3 in the second set only to be broken to 30 by Artuñedo.   But he has a second bite of the cherry:  *5-4...

Nice win on clay against a similarly ranked Spaniard

Some good news from Rome, via Morgan's opponent's Twitter:

"Vandaag 2e ronde verloren.. Opnieuw een zware wedstrijd.. 1-6 7-6 3-6!!"

i.e. 2nd round lost today, another tough match ...

freerider wrote:

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you are quite the detective steven

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Needs must when you've only had bad news to tweet for 22 hours (and about a dozen tweets) LOL

QF: Morgan Phillips WR 491 beat (WC) Giulio Torroni (ITA) WR 558 by 2 & 2

SF: Morgan Phillips WR 491 v (8) Luca Vanni (ITA) WR 391 (CH 319 in 2009)

Unfotunately, this run won't see Morgan shoot up the rankings because his points for winning a 10K title last year come off at the same time as these points will get added on Monday week. The points will cushion his fall though.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 5th of April 2012 03:01:39 PM

Bob in Spain wrote:

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Come on bloodhounds. How did Morgan get on this morning ?

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No luck yet - tennisteen has 2 of the other QF results, livetennis.it has all 3 of the others, but Morgan's QF was the only one not on the court bet365 were live-scoring and Torroni hasn't tweeted since January. Play should have just about finished by now though so hopefully not too much longer to wait.