{"id":2252,"date":"2017-05-03T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T08:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T08:41:53","slug":"albert-ramoss-record-setting-doubles-futility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/albert-ramoss-record-setting-doubles-futility\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Ramos’s Record-Setting Doubles Futility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, we learned that Albert Ramos<\/a> is not very good at doubles. In Barcelona, he lost his first-round doubles match, running his losing streak to 21 straight and his career tour-level record to an astonishing 14-79.<\/p>\n

Ramos hasn’t won a doubles match since Marrakech last year, so he has fallen off the doubles ranking list entirely. Elo isn’t so kind: Of the 268 players with at least one tour-level doubles match since 2014, Ramos ranks dead last, with an Elo rating of 1260, 130 points behind the second worst, Paul-Henri Mathieu<\/a>, and 240 points below the default rating of 1500 given to a player when he first arrives on tour. If two players with Ramos’s rating were to play\u00a0an elite team like Kontinen\/Peers, Elo would give the Ramos team little more than a 2% chance of winning.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the Barcelona loss was a notable one, setting the mark for the longest tour-level doubles losing streak since 2000. Here is the list:<\/p>\n

PLAYER               LOSSES     YEARS  \nAlbert Ramos             21   2016-17*  \nFlorent Serra            20   2008-10  \nLars Burgsmuller         18   2001-03  \nRyan Sweeting            17   2010-12  \nMikhail Kukushkin        17   2014-16  \nGael Monfils             16   2012-15  \nJack Waite               16   2001-02  \nMikhail Youzhny          16   2002-03  \nLuke Jensen              15   2000-02  \nRatiwatana brothers      15   2008-09  \nTaylor Dent              15   2001-04<\/pre>\n
* active streak<\/em><\/p>\n
My database isn’t as complete before 2000, so I can’t confidently say whether there were longer streaks earlier in ATP history.<\/p>\n
Among active players, Ramos’s run of futility stands far above the pack. There are 14 players with active streaks of 8 or more tour-level losses, though as you’ll see, I’m defining “active” quite broadly:<\/p>\n
PLAYER                STREAK  START  \nAlbert Ramos              21   2016  \nLukas Lacko               13   2012  \nJames Ward                11   2010  \nMarinko Matosevic         11   2014  \nJimmy Wang                11   2006  \nZhe Li                    11   2010  \nOmar Awadhy               10   2002  \nJose Rubin Statham        10   2006  \nMikhail Youzhny           10   2015  \nPaul Henri Mathieu         9   2016  \nJuan Monaco                9   2015  \nLucas Pouille              8   2016  \nAndre Begemann             8   2016  \nDaniel Gimeno Traver       8   2015<\/pre>\n
Many of the\u00a0players on this list are attempting comebacks from injury or trying to rebuild their rankings to enter more ATP events, so few of them are likely to threaten Ramos’s mark. If he continues on tour, Mathieu may have the best chance: He has racked up five different losing streaks of 8 or more matches, including a 12-loss stretch between 2002 and 2005.<\/p>\n
One of the things that makes Ramos’s streak so remarkable is that he has continued to enter doubles draws so frequently, playing both singles and doubles in 20 of his 31 events. Some of his peers have had poor doubles seasons, but few of them have kept trying so assiduously. Here are the 15 players with the worst doubles winning percentages in the last 52 weeks, minimum 10 matches:<\/p>\n
PLAYER                   MATCHES  WINS  WIN PERC  \nAlbert Ramos                  20     0      0.0%  \nJiri Vesely                   10     1     10.0%  \nAlexander Bury                13     2     15.4%  \nTaylor Fritz                  11     2     18.2%  \nGilles Simon                  11     2     18.2%  \nBenoit Paire                  16     3     18.8%  \nInigo Cervantes Huegun        10     2     20.0%  \nLucas Pouille                 15     3     20.0%  \nHans Podlipnik Castillo       13     3     23.1%  \nPaolo Lorenzi                 33     8     24.2%  \nMarcos Baghdatis              12     3     25.0%  \nAdrian Mannarino              15     4     26.7%  \nAndreas Seppi                 15     4     26.7%  \nJoao Sousa                    30     8     26.7%  \nNeal Skupski                  17     5     29.4%<\/pre>\n
Paolo Lorenzi<\/a> might be a bit better than his position on this list makes him look: Over the last year, he has partnered Ramos four times, more than any other player.<\/p>\n
Then again, Lorenzi has struggled with plenty of doubles partners. Here are the least successful doubles players since 2000, minimum 50 matches:<\/p>\n
PLAYER              MATCHES  WINS  WIN PERC  \nAlbert Ramos             93    14     15.1%  \nRobby Ginepri            97    21     21.6%  \nGilles Simon            151    33     21.9%  \nGael Monfils             92    21     22.8%  \nAdrian Mannarino         58    14     24.1%  \nBenoit Paire             93    23     24.7%  \nPaul Henri Mathieu      105    26     24.8%  \nJack Waite               68    17     25.0%  \nFlorent Serra            72    18     25.0%  \nSantiago Giraldo         99    27     27.3%  \nAleksandar Kitinov       88    24     27.3%  \nMarinko Matosevic        61    17     27.9%  \nBernard Tomic            63    18     28.6%  \nYounes El Aynaoui        56    16     28.6%  \nPaolo Lorenzi           104    30     28.8%<\/pre>\n
Ramos, once again, is in a league of his own. Beyond him and Robby Ginepri<\/a>, the list is dominated by a surprising number of Frenchmen, including Florent Serra<\/a>, who outranks several of his countrymen, but appeared earlier with the 20-match losing streak that Ramos finally overtook.<\/p>\n
Ironically, since Ramos’s losing streak has coincided with career-best success on the singles circuit, he will find it easier than ever to enter doubles draws. With the press that comes with the streak, however, potential partners may finally think twice before signing up with the worst tour-level doubles player of their generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week, we learned that Albert Ramos is not very good at doubles. In Barcelona, he lost his first-round doubles match, running his losing streak to 21 straight and his career tour-level record to an astonishing 14-79. Ramos hasn’t won a doubles match since Marrakech last year, so he has fallen off the doubles ranking … Continue reading Albert Ramos’s Record-Setting Doubles Futility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[31,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doubles","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\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}