gjr wrote:

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I could be wrong but I just found a streak of 22 by Ille Nastase.

The streak was ended by Richard Lewis in 1981. Prior to that he hadn't lost to a Brit since Ian Hewitt in 1972.

On re-count it was 23 but I could of added on an extra one :)

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23 ... so Freddie Nielsen hasn't got the all-time longest BBS after all, though I'm pretty sure he has the longest streak this century. Thanks for finding that one. I've just tried Connors too - he won 34 of the last 35 matches he played against Brits, including streaks of 14 and 20.

 

Greetings Brit-bash pickers...
... to a run-down of the Top 40 Brit-Bash Parade.

Let's start with the big new entries in the Top 40.

At No.30 - Roberto Bautista, his win at Tipton helps the Spaniard make his first entry on the chart.
At No.25 - Romain Jouan. Now on a run of 7 big Brit-bashes.
At No.23 - Roman Valent, he loves his Brit-bashing in Jersey, his last 4 bashes have been there.
At No.16 - Raphael Lustenberger, 5 Brit bashes in the last 7 months, including a double bagel this week over young Kyle Edmund.
At No.12 - It's former junior world number 1, Vladimir Ignatik, 6 bashes this year.  The Belarussian sure love his Brit-bashing.  Not half.

But, it's goodbye to Joseph Sirianni, the Brit-Bash Parade 2006 Christmas No.1 - a Jersey Josh Milton loss has seen the 35 year-old Aussie crashing out the Top 40 for the first time in many a Brit-Bash year.

Another big faller - Yannick Mertens - his loss to Chris Eaton in January sees the Belgian fall from the Christmas No.5 down to No.24.  Are Mertens Brit-Bash days over?

No time to ponder, it's time a plunder on into the big Top 10...
And at No.10, it's Karol Beck, up 40 places, more of a Boggo-basher than a Brit-basher.  Not half.  4 of his last 6 Brit-bashes have been against the Bogster.
At No.9 - another former junior world number 1, Ricardas Berankis, his Davis Cup bashes move him up 25 places. That's now 7 out of 7 bashes for the Lithuanian.
And at No.8 - a high new entry for Andrej Martin, this Slovakian has already recorded 6 bashes this year. His run to the Bath title helping that all-important Brit-bash count.
At No.7 - a non-mover, Pedro Clar, holding his position with a solitary A-Ward bash. Now on a run of 11 consecutive Brit-bash bashes. 
At No.6 - it's the highest new entry, it's Gleb Sakharov, with 7 bashes in just two months.  Looks like this Frenchman's heading for the top.
No.5 - Kamil Capkovic, this Slovakian now on a run of 12 bashes.  Who will stop him?
At 4 - it's Sebastien de Chaunac, the 32-year-old, still holding his own.  Brit-bashing for de Chaunac started back in 1998.  His Josh Milton-bash in March gave him his 16th straight bash.

And so, here we go, into the Top 3 ...

At 3 - it's Aussie, Samuel Groth, who continues to close in on the top two, now on an ab fab run of 15 big straight big Brit-bashes.

And so, on to the Top 2.  Who will number one?  Will it be Robert? Or will it be Nielsen? The two grooviest Brit bashers of all time...  Too right mate..

Well I can tell you, at NUMBER ONE - it's the funky Dane himself - it's Frederik Nielsen!!
Nielsen reclaiming the supreme Brit-Basher position, from Stephane Robert who has yet to record a Brit bash this year.
Nielsen is ominously back up a run of 5 bashes, but will he get near his 22 bash run of '06-'08?

Well that's all Brit-bash pickers!

Here's the full run-down.

			Age	BB Pts	Wins	Played	%	this year	Curr. Run
1	Frederik Nielsen	DEN	26	1446	54	62	87%	+1	5 (best : 22)
2	Stephane Robert	FRA	29	1319	32	34	94%	-1	1 (best : 16)
3	Samuel Groth	AUS	22	1070	33	41	80%	-	15
4	Sebastien de Chaunac	FRA	32	800	12	12	100%	-	16
5	Kamil Capkovic	SVK	23	794	15	17	88%	+26	12
6	Gleb Sakharov	FRA	21	700	7	7	100%	N/E	7
7	Pedro Clar	ESP	24	644	15	17	88%	-	11
8	Andrej Martin	SVK	20	635	10	11	91%	+390	9
9	Ricardas Berankis	LTU	19	525	7	7	100%	+25	7
10	Karol Beck	SVK	28	520	17	21	81%	+40	6 (best : 7)
11	Frank Dancevic	CAN	25	516	15	17	88%	+2	6 (best : 8)
12	Vladimir Ignatik	BLR	19	516	14	17	82%	+177	6 (best : 7)
13	Mathieu Rodrigues	FRA	24	515	17	21	81%	+5	2 (best : 5)
14	Jeremy Blandin	FRA	28	514	13	14	93%	-3	0 (best : 13)
15	David Guez	FRA	27	512	14	17	82%	+7	4 (best : 9)
16	Raphael Lustenberger	SUI	21	500	5	5	100%	+49	5
17	Martin Pedersen	DEN	22	481	12	13	92%	-8	5 (best : 7)
18	Chris Klingemann	CAN	25	475	7	7	100%	-8	7
19	Yen-Hsun Lu	TPE	26	467	10	11	91%	-7	9
20	Marcus Sarstrand	SWE	31	465	28	33	85%	-6	9
21	David Diaz-Ventura	ESP	24	457	11	13	85%	-6	10
22	Martin Fischer	AUT	23	452	21	26	81%	+2	0 (best : 6)
23	Roman Valent	SUI	26	451	12	13	92%	+38	4 (best : 8)
24	Yannick Mertens	BEL	22	451	12	15	80%	-19	0 (best : 7)
25	Romain Jouan	FRA	24	447	7	8	88%	+279	7
26	Malek Jaziri	TUN	26	446	12	15	80%	-3	6
27	Robin Haase	NED	23	443	11	13	85%	-10	5
28	Rohan Bopanna	IND	30	441	22	27	81%	-12	7
29	Julien Maes	FRA	29	430	20	24	83%	-8	0 (best : 6)
30	Roberto Bautista	ESP	22	423	12	15	80%	+382	7
31	Ladislav Chramosta	CZE	29	420	20	26	77%	-23	4 (best : 7)
32	Marcos Baghdatis	CYP	24	411	10	12	83%	-3	7
33	Dawid Olejniczak	POL	27	410	12	14	86%	+15	4 (best : 6)
34	Ervin Eleskovic	SWE	22	404	17	27	63%	+254	9
35	Ryan Sweeting	USA	22	400	5	5	100%	+126	5
35	Ty Trombetta	USA	19	400	4	4	100%	-3	4
37	Gabriel Trujillo	ESP	30	398	7	8	88%	+349	5
38	Juho Paukku	FIN	23	398	21	28	75%	+68	2 (best : 12)
39	Nicolas Tourte	FRA	30	386	35	47	74%	-	3 (best : 6)
40	Tobias Kamke	GER	23	376	9	10	90%	+103	4 (best : 5)

-- Edited by Akhenaten on Friday 30th of April 2010 03:04:22 PM

LOL that's amazing, though a 'current streak' column would be nice if it's not too hard to add.

BB points, for anyone wondering, are Wins * (%-0.5)^2 * 100 (from an earlier post by Akhenaten on this thread) - I think he's trying to balance the effects of a high % and a lot of wins.

steven wrote:

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LOL that's amazing, though a 'current streak' column would be nice if it's not too hard to add.

BB points, for anyone wondering, are Wins * (%-0.5)^2 * 100 (from an earlier post by Akhenaten on this thread) - I think he's trying to balance the effects of a high % and a lot of wins.

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There you go Steven... streaks added.

I've actually complicated the formula a bit more, so that recent Brit-bashing is better than ancient Brit-bashing.

 

bet you moan on the inside tho

Sebastien de Chaunac actually has the longest current Brit Bash Streak.

His Brit Bash over Dan Cox in the Wimbly Qualies this year gave him his 17th straight bash, a record going all the way back to 1998.

Though Wimbledon was the last tournament he's played, so there's maybe a chance he's decided to hang Undefeated Brit Bashing Boots up..

steven wrote:

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Akhenaten wrote:

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Sebastien de Chaunac actually has the longest current Brit Bash Streak.

His Brit Bash over Dan Cox in the Wimbly Qualies this year gave him his 17th straight bash, a record going all the way back to 1998.

Though Wimbledon was the last tournament he's played, so there's maybe a chance he's decided to hang Undefeated Brit Bashing Boots up..

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You're right that de Chaunac should be on the list, not sure how he got missed. I make it 16 bashes going back to his loss to Mackin in 2000. I can see how you might have got 17 if you include a walkover against Rusedski (or if I miscounted!), but not sure how you have it going back to 1998.

I've added it anyway.

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I think it is 17.  But yes, you're right it's only back to 2000.