Week 41 - Great Britain F20 ($10,000) - Sunderland (Hard)

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Week 41 - Great Britain F20 ($10,000) - Sunderland (Hard)

john · Top national player

Might mention to Josh on Facebook that he is 4 titles away from the all time record. That might keep him playing for a bit lol

Salmon · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
I see there is actually a couple of more threads from 2011 http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=194062 and then 2012 http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=214003 although I'm a complete computerphobe can't work out how to get to the 2012 file open.

That is some excel database! I should have learnt a bit of coding years back, because I remember that I manually tried to compile a list of all Challenger winners but gave up midway.

You need to open an account on 2shared (and err... the email ID need not be genuine ). After that, you need to click the smaller of the two blue buttons that say "DOWNLOAD" and you get the file. If the problem persists, let me know and I will reupload it somewhere.

wolf · Tennis legend

Great, thank you.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yoshi is down with only 11 titles there, though, so some errors are present.

steven · Tennis legend

john wrote:
Might mention to Josh on Facebook that he is 4 titles away from the all time record. That might keep him playing for a bit lol

He might already know. And on an, er, unrelated note ...

steven wrote:
I got asked about this in a DM last night [...]
-- Edited by steven on Sunday 13th of October 2013 01:40:55 PM

I doubt it's a big deal for Josh (and maybe he would happily hand back quite a few of those Futures titles for a Challenger singles title or two), but equally anyone reaching a milestone like 20 titles is likely to wonder if they are at or near a record and if winning a few more Futures happens to fit in with his other plans, I'm sure he wouldn't mind being the first to reach a quarter century!

This assumes that 24 really is the current record. I doubt anybody has been missed but unless someone (Akhenaten?) can run a program across the whole ITF database, it's hard to be 100% sure.

The ITF may keep records of course - I'll ask them if Josh gets a couple more titles so that hopefully we know for sure in time to make at least a medium-sized deal of it (and maybe prompt the ITF to feature it) if he does actually get there

Salmon · Tennis legend

Do check out the number of doubles Futures titles that Roman Jebavy has! Unless he graduates to Challengers, he is going to clock up an indecent amount of doubles titles before he retires, given that he is only 23 now.

-- Edited by Salmon on Wednesday 16th of October 2013 01:05:00 PM