Genova Challenger 25K

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Genova Challenger 25K

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Just found out!!!!!

Morgan won emphatically 64 60.

Really didn't expect that.

Next up is Israeli Dekel Valtzer who also had an easy win. 7th seed

Don't get too excited. He'd have to beat top seed to qualify

-- Edited by johnnylad at 11:46, 2006-09-03

gazzpash · Club Coach

Morgan won!!!!!

M Phillips d. (7) D Valtzer 6-7 6-4 6-3

Well dont Morgan.

Unfortunately Jamie Delgado had to retire from his 2nd round match

Akhenaten · Pro player

The drawsheet says Jamie retired with a headache!

(http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2006/1763/qs.pdf)

Fab win for Morgan though. Valtzer's ranked 433, compared to Morgan's 618.

Tough final qualifying match though, versus Melvyn Op Der Heijde (NED), ranked 317.

Here's hoping.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Doh!

M Op Der Heijde (1) d. M Phillips 6-2 6-4

Sheddie · administrator

A couple of really great wins for Morgan there, shame he wasn't able to get through to the main draw but I think Op de Hejide is the 2nd highest ranked player he's ever faced and the Dutchman competes regularly at challenger level and made a semi on clay in July while Morgan mainly competes in lower level futures.

Slightly bizarre reason for Jamie to retire, I've never heard of any player being forced out due to a headache before.

He and Jamie Murray have linked up again for the doubles, they're the 2nd seeds and play Marin Cilic and Mischa Zverev in rd1, a tricky match against two former top 5 juniors and Cilic is top 200 in singles. If they win this tournament Jamie will move up from 131 to 117.

The reason why he isn't playing with Colin is because Colin's training in Scotland for the indoor season, he doesn't particularly like clay - it doesn't suit his game. Aswell as doubles he'd want to play singles qualies and on clay he wouldn't have that good a chance of qualifying.

Morgan's also in the doubles, playing with Spain's Pablo Andujar. They play Lorenzi and Chadaj in rd1.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

Slightly bizarre reason for Jamie to retire, I've never heard of any player being forced out due to a headache before.

If it was a bad headache or a migrane though then it can cause any number of symptons such as servere loss of balance and/or vision which would make playing a tennis match pretty tricky.

Sheddie · administrator

imoen wrote:

If it was a bad headache or a migrane though then it can cause any number of symptons such as servere loss of balance and/or vision which would make playing a tennis match pretty tricky.

Ah ok, I didn't realise that they could be that severe.

Jamie must have recovered now as he and Jamie Murray came through an extremely tricky rd1 encounter to win 6-2, 6-7, [10-7].

Jamie says playing doubles on clay takes quite a lot of getting used to as instead of serve-volleying most of the time, most of the players stay at the baseline and exchange heavy groundstrokes.

They play Chadaj and Lorenzi in the quarters who beat Morgan Phillips and Pablo Andujar 6-2, 6-2 in rd1.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Well done to them in the doubles, good to hear Jamie has recovered.

Hopefully they can add another title to their collection!

Nick_Squashplayer · Social player

Hi all, does anyone know where the two jamie's might be playing next?? I was thinking maybe orleans in france, because quite a few brits are playing there, and its hard court so jamie murray might play singles as well.

Sheddie · administrator

Hi Nick, it'll either be Orleans or they might stay on the clay and play the 50K+H challenger in Seville next week.

I should think that Orleans is more likely as fast indoor hard courts suit their doubles games a lot better, especially Jamie Murray's big leftie serve. Also, Jamie D will have a better chance of qualifying for the singles indoors as he much prefers the faster courts. Jamie Murray won't play the singles qualies as he's focusing entirely on the doubles right now and also I don't think his ranking would be high enough to make the qualies cut.

Sheddie · administrator

The two Jamies moved into the semis with a 7-6[7], 6-1 win over Chadaj and Lorenzi.

They face Italians Francesco Aldi and Alessio Di Mauro in today's semis. Aldi and Di Mauro thrashed the 4th seeds 6-1, 6-1 in the quarters. Although neither is ranked particularly high in doubles, Aldi won the Cordenons challenger doubles title a few weeks ago and Di Mauro has played doubles in ATP tournaments this year.

Sheddie · administrator

The two Jamies are into their 2nd successive final without having to play their semi as Aldi and Di Mauro withdrew prior to the match. So another really big rankings boost for Murray and Delgado

In the final they play unseeded Adriano Biasella and Marcelo Charpentier who knocked out the top seeds in straight sets in the quarters and won their semi 7-6, 4-6, 10-5 today. It should be a close match but Murray and Delgado are the favourites.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Don't you just love it when that happens!

Perhaps Di Mauro saw the name 'Murray' and decided he couldn't face it

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

some very quick calculations have shown that:

when the new doubles rankings come out,

Jamie Murray will be approx 107 if they win the tournament, 112 if they are runners up.

Jamie Delgado will be approx 135 if they win the tournament, 141 if they are runners up.

thats rises of, 24 or 19 for J Murray and 49 or 43 for J Delgado.

As I said these are quick calculations so don't take into account any points being defended or what the 18th/17th results are that will drop off, it also assumes everyone else remains on the same number of points.