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RJA


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Fleming/Hutchins and Delgado/Skupski should both be here in the doubles but singles qualifying has thrown up unexpected British involvement.

 

QR1: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 v Bye

QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 v (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR

 

Aliev is a 19 year old who played 3 matches in futures in 2008 and 2010 and never won a set. On paper looks like a great bit of scheduling and a very easy 6 points. Could have been even better but unfortunately he is the same section as (q1) Kumantsov WR 340, the only top 500 player in the draw.



-- Edited by RJA on Friday 14th of September 2012 09:05:59 PM

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I had just looked at the Trnava CH draw and hoped Morgan was going to be there and was disapointed!

Skupski playing with Franky Moser now, Delgado has a back injury I think.

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cant believe how weak the qualifying is, why am i not playing these events! potential to play someone ranked 600-700 for 12 points to qualifying for a tour event.
sums tennis schedulling up, its everything.

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Fitzy wrote:

cant believe how weak the qualifying is, why am i not playing these events! potential to play someone ranked 600-700 for 12 points to qualifying for a tour event.
sums tennis schedulling up, its everything.

You will, Fitzy, you will.  Your time will come soon.



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QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2, 7-5

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QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2 7-5


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the main thing he hit on his having the money which give you flexibility to hold you nerve and make last minute shot gun decisions, also to be able to buy single plane tickets to places so you arent stuck there when you have lost and you arent missing a flight when your still in.

 

Playing in St Petersburg was surely planned a good while beforehand though as Russian visas/invitations would have had to be sorted in advance



-- Edited by jmjhb on Saturday 15th of September 2012 04:30:16 PM

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RJA wrote:

QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2, 7-5

 And I thought I was "on the ball".  You had the result up before the ATP site had the match finished !



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Fitzy wrote:

cant believe how weak the qualifying is, why am i not playing these events! potential to play someone ranked 600-700 for 12 points to qualifying for a tour event.
sums tennis schedulling up, its everything.

 

It isn't that unusual to see qualifying events like this. Similarly qualifying for the Petange (Luzembourg) challenger last week was very, very weak with only 12 entries (10 of whom were unranked) for a 32 man draw. One win against an unranked guy netted you 5 points and a shot at the main draw.

Problem is finding the weak draws isn't always easy. This week last year qualifying for ATP Metz was very weak. This year it had a full draw of 32 including 8 players in the top 200. I guess you need a bit of nerve, flexibility and the finance to be able to make a last minute call to go to an event like this when it looks like the field is going to be weak.



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Bob in Spain wrote:
RJA wrote:

QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2, 7-5

 And I thought I was "on the ball".  You had the result up before the ATP site had the match finished !

The match was on Bet365 which tends to run ahead of ATP live scores.



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RJA wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
RJA wrote:

QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2, 7-5

 And I thought I was "on the ball".  You had the result up before the ATP site had the match finished !

The match was on Bet365 which tends to run ahead of ATP live scores.

 That's cheating furiousfurious



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Bob in Spain wrote:

QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2 7-5

 So thats 6 points (and a few hundred dollars) in the bag for Morgan already?



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Shhh wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:

QR2: (q7) Morgan Phillips WR 537 beat (qwc) Vugar Aliev (RUS) UNR : 6-2 7-5

 So thats 6 points (and a few hundred dollars) in the bag for Morgan already?

 6 Points and $680



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Easiest 6 points I bet Morgan has earned in some time, It's certainly worthwhile looking for these as there is always chances of easy points, particularly in some of the Challenger qualies as RJA said.

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the main thing he hit on his having the money which give you flexibility to hold you nerve and make last minute shot gun decisions, also to be able to buy single plane tickets to places so you arent stuck there when you have lost and you arent missing a flight when your still in.


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