"Most Futile Effort" Award

This is much like the "Time To Get a Day Job" Awards. Those were at the ATP level so at least players have a chance to fall back to a lower level to gather themselves and get going again. But let's look at the players with the worst records of the year at all levels. This year's winner is Enrico Becuzzi of Italy who went a perfect 0-20. He darn near spoiled it against Alberto Iarossi in Italy F26. Becuzzi won the second set (the only set he won all year) and took Iarossi to 5-7 in the final set before losing. That was Iarossi's only career win. In 2005, Robert Dee (GBR) finished third with an 0-15 record. This year Dee "improved" to second place, finishing at 0-18. He lost every set last year and did the same in 2006, although did manage one tie break. Josh Olivas is another who has been a regular on this list. This year, after finishing at 1-25 in 2005, Josh again got a win for a record of 1-17 in 2006.

Here is the top streaks of the year

Of course, if we are going to look at the longest win streaks, we might as well look at the longest losing streaks, too. Our top two 0-fers in 2006 are also the top two on this list. Enrico Becuzzi had his 20 match losing streak and Robert Dee comes in at 18.

Looks like the only way is up!