Italy F14 - 10K [clay]

Sheddie · administrator

Italy F14 - 10K [clay]

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Morgan wins in 3! Great news taking out the seventh seed and slotting into his draw. Really didn't expect this.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Sheddie · administrator

The score was: 2-6, 6-4, 6-1

Wow, what a win for Morgan Phillips

A superb victory over a player ranked so many places higher, it must be a career best win for him. He did extremely well to recover from being totally outplayed in set 1.

Morgan has been making promising strides forward this year and he's now got a great opportunity to reach the quarters.

Rd2: M Phillips [GB] v M Capone [It] [q]

Capone is an unranked qualifier who's just won his first ever main draw match. This is his first tournament since March.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Morgan lost the first set

But won the second set tie break 7-0...................

and.................

wait for it..............

bagelled him in the final set to reach the quarters!!

Go Morgan. Tough match against Paul Baccanello lined up next.

Have you got a little bio for Baccanello USF? I'd be interested to read it.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Baccanello is ranked 360, with a career high of 129 in November 2003. Highlights this year include a final in Australia F3 (l. to Economidis) and a semi in GB F17 (retired against Sarstrand).

Sheddie · administrator

You had me in suspense there, Johnny !

Great result for Morgan, it can be tough to come back down to earth after a fantastic victory and win the next match. Reaching the quarters here will see him jump about 50 places to 704

Here's some info on Baccanello:

Australian Paul Baccanello is ranked 360 with a career high of 129 reached in Nov 2003. He was a relatively late starter to tennis - at 13 !! He's now something of a tennis veteran at the ripe, old age of 29. He was 1 of only 3 people to beat Andy Murray in challengers after Wimbledon 2005. Baccanello won 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 in the quarters of the Vancouver Challenger in August and went to to reach the final, taking advantage of Murray's growing frustration and unforced error count that day. Unfortunately for Baccanello he got injured the next week and was out of tennis until March this year. His return to tournaments went well, he reached the semi-final of a 15K futures in Australia. He also reached the semis of GB F7 in Bournemouth a couple of weeks ago.

He and Morgan have already played this year. Baccanello won 6-3, 6-3 in rd1 of GB F7 as both players made a rare appearance on British shores.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Lets hope Morgan can turn those tables!

Have we got anyone out in italy, coz Morgan's one of the only men we don't have a photo of.

Sheddie · administrator

I'll contact the tournament office of wherever Morgan is playing this week and ask them to take a photo of him for this site.

Sadly there's no news/results anywhere from this tournament. Quarter-finals were played yesterday.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

From MTF:

QF:

Morgan Phillips (GBR) def. (3)(WC)Paul Baccanello (AUS) 76 67 64

SF:

(8)Alessandro Accardo (ITA) vs. Morgan Phillips (GBR)

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Accardo is ranked 469 (career-high of 426 in June 2005). He`s a leftie. According to his ITF profile, his favourite surface is actually hard, so Morgan might have a good chance in this match. However, Accardo has played in Italian Futures for most of 2006 , and has made the SF in Italy F8, the SF of Italy F12 and the QF of Italy F13, all on clay.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I am really impressed with Morgans results this week! It should give him loads of confidence.

Come on for the semi final!

steven · Tennis legend

He won the semi-final - copying and pasting from a post I did on another forum (hope you don't mind!)

NAPOLI (ITA) 10K Future - clay

R1: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat (7) Manuel Jorquera (ITA) WR 474 by 2-6 6-4 6-1
R2: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat Massimo Capone (ITA) UNR by 3-6 7-6(0) 6-0
QF: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat (3/WC) Paul Baccanello (AUS) WR 360 by 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4
SF: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat Alessandro Accardo (ITA) WR 469 by 4-6 6-2 6-4

FI: Morgan Phillips WR 751 v Nick van der Meer (NED) WR 507

Naples kept us waiting for QF results for a couple of days and to be honest, since Morgan had lost 3 & 3 to Baccanello in Bournemouth two weeks ago, I assumed he'd have lost again, but this is jaw-dropping stuff!

A Brit playing a tournament on clay in Italy beats not one but THREE seeds ranked between 250 and nearly 400 places above him to reach his first-ever Futures Final. How good is that! He's been taken to three sets in every match too, but had found a way to come through. A fantastic performance, probably the best tournament performance by a Brit relative to their ranking this year.

Morgan will play the Final on Sunday. Can he go all the way?

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

steven wrote:

He won the semi-final - copying and pasting from a post I did on another forum (hope you don't mind!) NAPOLI (ITA) 10K Future - clay R1: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat (7) Manuel Jorquera (ITA) WR 474 by 2-6 6-4 6-1 R2: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat Massimo Capone (ITA) UNR by 3-6 7-6(0) 6-0 QF: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat (3/WC) Paul Baccanello (AUS) WR 360 by 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4 SF: Morgan Phillips WR 751 beat Alessandro Accardo (ITA) WR 469 by 4-6 6-2 6-4 FI: Morgan Phillips WR 751 v Nick van der Meer (NED) WR 507 Naples kept us waiting for QF results for a couple of days and to be honest, since Morgan had lost 3 & 3 to Baccanello in Bournemouth two weeks ago, I assumed he'd have lost again, but this is jaw-dropping stuff! A Brit playing a tournament on clay in Italy beats not one but THREE seeds ranked between 250 and nearly 400 places above him to reach his first-ever Futures Final. How good is that! He's been taken to three sets in every match too, but had found a way to come through. A fantastic performance, probably the best tournament performance by a Brit relative to their ranking this year. Morgan will play the Final on Sunday. Can he go all the way?

Wow, great week for Morgan!

Hope he wins the final now

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Go Morgan!! He should be really pleased with himself regardless of whether he wins the final or not (but here's hoping he wins anyway!)