Robert Dee - British Tennis Professional - Beltranena comes back to regain the record

DJ · County player

RE: Robert Dee - British Tennis Professional - Beltranena comes back to regain the record

steven · Tennis legend

You're not the only one with wooden racket!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Very interesting, Akhenaten!

Akhenaten · Pro player

Here's a good table. It's the players with the most double bagels against them (since 2002).

It shown how few double bagels the Deester has actually had in his career (and Amadeus too).

Lownsbrough would have another three double 0's, but retired at 6-0 3-0, 6-0 1-0 & 6-0 2-0.

Top of the table, Sipkovs, has played in Britain 3 times this year. George Coupland double bagelled him in Sunderland in Jan.

Double Bagels Lost

			Dbl Bagels	Matches
1	Maris Sipkovs	LAT	18	37	49%
2	Josh Olivas	USA	17	91	19%
3	Rodrigo Perri	BRA	14	42	33%
4	Ismar Moralic	CRO	12	20	60%
5	Ryan Azougga	AUS	12	24	50%
6	Jonathan Susmozas	ESP	11	23	48%
7	Jose de Hoyas	PUR	10	13	77%
8	Tetsuo Uchino	JPN	10	16	63%
9	Ahmed Abdrabuh	SYR	9	18	50%
10	Shrikant Rathi	IND	9	27	33%
11	Adam Lownsbrough	GBR	9	41	22%
12	Alejandro Cabrera	MEX	9	97	9%
13	Joseph Guluzian	SWE	8	15	53%
14	Antonio de Santiago	ESP	8	31	26%
15	Alexander Diaz	VEN	8	42	19%
16	Michael Skwira	CAN	8	53	15%
17	Daiso Tagawa	USA	7	7	100%
17	John Lackey	USA	7	7	100%
19	Robert Turner	USA	7	20	35%
20	Dmitry Dudko	RUS	7	26	27%
21	Geoffrey Gehrke	USA	7	74	9%
22	Tapabrata Neogi	IND	6	7	86%
23	James Armstrong	GBR	6	8	75%
24	Anastasios Charatsis	GRE	6	10	60%
24	Nikola Krunt	CZE	6	10	60%

36	Diego Beltranena	GUA	6	52	12%
286	Amadeus Fulford-Jones	GBR	3	198	2%
759	Robert Dee	GBR	2	55	4%

-- Edited by Akhenaten at 14:08, 2008-05-15

Akhenaten · Pro player

Thought I'd look at the opposite - the players who have won the most by double bagel, and Alan Mackin comes out 5th and Morgan Phillips 10th!

Fed & Rafa are rubbish...

Double Bagels Won

			Dbl Bagels	Matches
1	Rafael Arevalo	ESA	11	297	4%
2	Bartolome Salva	ESP	11	452	2%
3	Matej Bocko	SVK	10	335	3%
4	Takeshi Itoh	JPN	9	151	6%
5	Alan Mackin	GBR	9	431	2%
6	Matt Daly	USA	8	142	6%
7	Hiu-Tung Yu	HKG	8	184	4%
8	David Estruch	ESP	8	241	3%
9	Alexander Yarmola	UKR	8	303	3%
10	Morgan Phillips	GBR	8	334	2%

621	Andy Murray	GBR	2	304	1%
1335	Roger Federer	SUI	1	542	0%
-	Rafael Nadal	ESP	0	466	0%

-- Edited by Akhenaten at 14:10, 2008-05-15

Salmon · Tennis legend

Woo! Down with Nadal and up with Mors.

steven · Tennis legend

Rob featured in the Guardian's "Corrections" section a couple of weeks ago.

"We were wrong to suggest in two articles, based on an agency report, that Robert Dee has not won a professional tennis match in three years. We accept that Robert Dee has a British ranking of 4.2 with the Lawn Tennis Federation and that he regularly wins professional tennis matches in Spain. We apologise to Mr Dee. (Can't lose them all, page 2, Sport, April 26, and Britain's Dee tastes victory at 55th attempt, guardian.co.uk, April 22)"

Talking of which, I hope he hasn't given up on Futures forever.

scottie1 · Futures level

What happened to Adam Lownsborough has he retired> he used to lose very easily! He once received aranking point for a WC into a Challenger event abroad How did he manage that with so poor a ranking?

steven · Tennis legend

I think he retired a couple of years ago. His results made Rob Dee look like Roger Federer in comparison, but it was equally fun following him.

The WC into the San Remo Challenger is explained in the Times article at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article521350.ece - the second paragraph of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/07/09/stdiar09.xml about when he hit with Justine Henin is a good one too.

The last I heard, he was a highly-qualified tennis coach - see http://www.findatenniscoach.com/detail.php?siteid=2995

steven · Tennis legend

The Dee misreporting scandal rumbles on with libel writs now issued - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/11/medialaw.pressandpublishing

I'm a bit amazed it's got to this (I'd much rather he started playing Futures again) but I'm even more amazed that some newspapers refused to simply print apologies when the error of their ways was pointed out to them!

Still, we saw it all coming way back in March:

jazar: i think the times should be alerted of his potential achievement so they can write another article on him

me: Judging by the way they picked up the Count's comment about taking racquets to the LTA to be flown out to Boggo in Argentina (which as far as I know was only every brought up on this board), I doubt there's any need to alert them.

In any case, talking about him on a tennis board is a bit of fun (not least because I think we're reasonably balanced about it as well as having a laugh), but an article in a national newspaper making it sound like he's the worst tennis player in the whole world (as I imagine it would) might be a bit harsh!

wink

-- Edited by steven at 17:50, 2008-06-11

jazar · Junior player

as i've said before, i'm pretty sure its rob's father who is behind this. those of us who know rob believe that he himself would have enjoyed the attention

seagull · Hall of fame

He is back!
http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/1704/qs.pdf

steven · Tennis legend

Woohoo, after Chris Eaton's win on Tuesday, that's the best news I've heard all week!

I'm so tempted to put him on the top 25 table on a new "famous unranked players" section. LOL

DJ · County player

1-6, 2-6. Shame.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

just a note. did any one else see the worlds worst jockey story? finally winning a race after 28 years.

handled totally differently to Rob's.