{"id":1903,"date":"2015-10-24T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2015-10-24T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T12:30:33","slug":"teymuraz-gabashvili-and-atp-quarterfinal-losing-streaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/teymuraz-gabashvili-and-atp-quarterfinal-losing-streaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Teymuraz Gabashvili and ATP Quarterfinal Losing Streaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday in Moscow, Teymuraz Gabashvili<\/a> played his 16th career tour-level quarterfinal. Facing 118th-ranked Evgeny Donskoy, it was his best chance yet to reach an ATP semifinal, but just as in each of his previous 15 attempts<\/a>, he lost.<\/p>\n

No other player has contested so many tour-level quarterfinals without ever winning one. But while the streak of 16 consecutive quarterfinal losses is a rarity, it’s not a record. The all-time mark belongs to Gianluca Pozzi, who dropped 18 in a row between 1993 and 2000<\/a>. Pozzi’s record, depressing as that streak is, might be an inspiration to Gabashvili: At age 35, Pozzi finally broke the streak, defeating Marat Safin<\/a>,\u00a0one of the best players he ever faced in a quarterfinal.<\/p>\n

Gabashvili and Pozzi are among only twelve players who have strung together more than 10 quarterfinal losses at tour level. Here’s the complete list, including the dates of the\u00a0first and last loss in each streak:<\/p>\n

Player               QFs L Streak     Start       End  \nGianluca Pozzi                 18  19930104  20000501  \nTeymuraz Gabashvili            16  20070219         *  \nPaul Annacone                  14  19860127  19880704  \nIvan Molina                    12  19751110  19791105  \nMischa Zverev                  11  20060925  20090713  \nDiego Perez                    11  19861124  19920810  \nAnand Amritraj                 11  19750304  19810706  \nDennis Ralston                 11  19701101  19800602  \nBob Carmichael                 11  19720918  19751231  \nRicardas Berankis              10  20120917         *  \nYen Hsun Lu                    10  20070219  20130923  \nMikhail Youzhny                10  20041101  20060130<\/pre>\n
Ricardas Berankis<\/a> is the only other player on this list to have an active streak, and since he’s five years younger than Gabashvili, another few years of mild success and quarterfinal futility could put him in the running for the all-time record. Alas, neither player is likely to repeat the\u00a0post-streak success of\u00a0Mikhail Youzhny<\/a>, who went on to play 63 more tour-level quarterfinals, winning 33 of them.<\/p>\n
If there’s a silver lining for Gabashvili, it’s that he’s reached all of those quarterfinals, sparing himself the fate of Rolf Thung<\/a>, a Dutch player from the 1970s who reached the round of 16 at 18 tour events and lost them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday in Moscow, Teymuraz Gabashvili played his 16th career tour-level quarterfinal. Facing 118th-ranked Evgeny Donskoy, it was his best chance yet to reach an ATP semifinal, but just as in each of his previous 15 attempts, he lost. No other player has contested so many tour-level quarterfinals without ever winning one. But while the streak … Continue reading Teymuraz Gabashvili and ATP Quarterfinal Losing Streaks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","category-records","category-streaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}