{"id":2503,"date":"2018-03-03T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T21:19:46","slug":"atp-streaks-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/03\/atp-streaks-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Streaks of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian translation at settesei.it<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This is a guest post by Peter Wetz.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the recent update of Jeff’s\u00a0ATP<\/a> and WTA<\/a> GitHub repositories, we can take a look at notable streaks that happened in 2017. In this post I show matches won\/lost and tiebreaks won\/lost streaks of the 2017 ATP tour.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with matches won:<\/p>\n

Name               Start   End     Length\nRafael Nadal       04-17   05-15   17\nRafael Nadal       08-28   10-09   16\nRoger Federer      06-19   08-07   16\nRoger Federer      10-09   11-13   13\nRoger Federer      03-06   03-20   12\nAlexander Zverev   07-31   08-07   10\nRafael Nadal       05-29   07-03   10\nStan Wawrinka      05-22   05-29   10\nGrigor Dimitrov    01-02   01-16   10\n<\/pre>\n
We see that, as far as streaks are concerned, the 2017 season was dominated by Roger Federer<\/a> and Rafael Nadal<\/a>. Rafa’s streak of 17 wins<\/a>, which was halted by Dominic Thiem<\/a> in the Rome quarterfinal, is the only streak containing three back-to-back tournament wins. Besides Roger and Rafa, only Alexander Zverev<\/a> won two tournaments back-to-back<\/a>.<\/p>\n
When we talk about the less glamorous category of losing streaks, two names immediately should pop into our minds: Vincent Spadea<\/a> and Donald Young<\/a>. The former holds the record of 21 consecutive matches lost<\/a>* on ATP level, and the latter holds one of the longer losing streaks<\/a>\u00a0(17 matches lost in a row) in recent years.<\/p>\n
During the 2017 ATP season no player came close to any of these marks, but still there were a few moments where players seemed to have forgotten how to win a match. The following list shows all players with 8 or more consecutive matches lost.<\/p>\n
Name                  Start   End     Length\nPablo Cuevas          05-29   10-23   10\nMaximilian Marterer   02-06   08-28   10\nPaolo Lorenzi         08-28   10-30    8 \nMalek Jaziri          03-20   07-03    8 \nDaniil Medvedev       07-31   10-09    8 \nStefanos Tsitsipas    02-13   10-02    8 \n<\/pre>\n
Regarding Maximilian Marterer<\/a>‘s streak of 10 matches lost, we have to mention that he played a good season at the Challenger level. In between his losses at the ATP level there were deep runs at various Challenger tournaments. Still, it must be frustrating to lose your first round main draw match every time<\/em> after having successfully gone through qualies. This fact accounts for 7 of his 10<\/a> losses at ATP main draws (the other 3 coming from entries as a wild card). Pablo Cuevas<\/a>, the other player having lost 10 matches in a row<\/a> last season, on the other hand, achieved a real<\/em> losing streak with no Challenger level wins hidden among them.<\/p>\n
Winning tiebreaks has been discussed on this blog a<\/a> lot<\/a>. One of the conclusions was that in the past three players\u2013Roger Federer,\u00a0Rafael Nadal, and\u00a0John Isner<\/a>\u2013consistently outperform their tiebreak expectations. The list of consecutive tiebreaks won in 2017 supports this statement as can be seen in the following table.<\/p>\n
Name           Start   End     Length\nJohn Isner     05-15   05-29   11   \nRoger Federer  06-19   08-07   8 \nRoger Federer  03-06   03-20   8 \n(Many tied)                    7<\/pre>\n
John Isner’s streak<\/a> went over the course of 8 matches including 2 matches he lost, whereas Roger won all the matches in which he won the tiebreaks contributing to his<\/a> streaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The list of consecutive tiebreaks lost looks as follows.<\/p>\n
Name            Start   End     Length\nLucas Pouille   07-03   10-09   12 \nFlorian Mayer   01-02   07-03   11\nDusan Lajovic   03-06   07-24   8<\/pre>\n
Lucas Pouille<\/a> holds the crown for most tiebreaks lost in a row in 2017. In fact he got really close to Robin Haase<\/a>‘s infamous run of 13 tiebreaks lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Finally, I want to present an odd 2017 achievement by Nick Kyrgios<\/a>: He is the only player ever to lose\u00a0three matches in a row<\/a> by retirement.<\/p>\n
Date   Tourney   Matchup                           Result\n07-31  W'ington  Nick Kyrgios vs Tennys Sandgren   3-6 0-3 RET\n07-03  Wimby     Nick Kyrgios vs Pierre H Herbert  3-6 4-6 RET\n06-19  London    Nick Kyrgios vs Donald Young      6-7(3) 0-0 RET<\/pre>\n
The list of 2018 streaks is shaping up nicely already: Doubles partners Oliver Marach<\/a> and Mate Pavic<\/a> opened their season with 17 straight wins, including three titles, finally ending with a loss in the Rotterdam final to Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut<\/a>. Marach can even claim an 18-match streak, since he won a Davis Cup match for Austria last month while pairing with Philipp Oswald<\/a>. Doubles data is tougher to come by, but it’s safe to say that the season-opening run for Marach\/Pavic will have a prominent place in any summaries of this year’s ATP streaks.<\/p>\n
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* The list excludes one loss of Vincent Spadea at the 1999 World Team Cup in D\u00fcsseldorf, where he lost to Rainer Sch\u00fcttler<\/a> 5-7, 6-3, 1-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Peter Wetz<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a computer scientist interested in racket sports and data analytics based in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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