[Zzvukttz]

It includes three tennis entries!

8. Guillermo Vilas: The Argentinian tennis player became the first South American to win a Grand Slam event when he took the French Open title in 1977. He went on to win three more Grand Slams, two of them on grass in Australia - not bad for a clay court specialist. His unrivalled winning run came in 1977 when he won 46 straight matches between July and October, taking seven straight titles in the process. Amazingly, he still only ended the year as No.2 in the ATP rankings, behind Jimmy Connors. Rafael Nadal currently holds the record for single-surface wins. He has racked up 81 straight victories on clay, beating Ivan Lendl's 66 indoors and Roger Federer's 65 on grass and 56 on hard courts.

7. Camarero: Between April 1953 and August 1955, the Puerto Rican colt won 56 straight races - the longest streak in horse racing history and one which will probably never be surpassed.

6. Martina Navratilova: The finest female tennis player ever to hold a racquet has pretty much every record there is in the sport. A career spanning a staggering 31 years saw her win a total of 167 singles titles (including 18 Grand Slams), 177 women's doubles titles (31 Grand Slams) and 15 mixed doubles titles (10 more Grand Slams). Navratilova's record winning run came from February to December 1984, when she won 74 straight matches.

5. Julio Cesar Chavez: Light-welterweight Chavez had 88 straight professional wins in the ring before drawing with Pernell Whitaker in 1993. The Mexican won a total of six world titles at three weight divisions and finished his career with 104-5-2 record, including 80 knockouts. Rocky Marciano has the best heavyweight winning streak with all 49 of his pro fights ending in victory. He is also the only heavyweight champion in history to win every one of his professional bouts. Puerto Rican super-bantamweight Wilfredo Gomez has the longest knockout winning streak, with a hard-hitting 32.

4. Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh: The American beach volleyball duo had a year to remember from August 2007 to August 2008 when they went on a 112-match winning run, racking up 19 tournament victories in the process. The pair also took gold at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and then repeated the feat in Beijing four years later.

3. Ed Moses: The American holds the record for the most consecutive wins in any track and field athletic event. He dominated the 400m hurdles between September 1977 and June 1987, when he had 122 straight victories (107 in finals). At his very first international meet - the 1976 Olympics - he announced his arrival to the world by winning gold and setting a new world record. He went on to beat his own record three more times until he retired with a third-place finish at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. And he did it all as a strict vegetarian.


2. Esther Vergeer: Esther was eight years old when an operation on haemorrhaging blood vessels around her spinal cord left her in a wheelchair. But to say this didn't hold her back would be an understatement. She went on to play for the Dutch national wheelchair basketball team which won the European Championship in 1997 before moving on to tennis. She has now been world No.1 in wheelchair tennis for five years and has won more than 250 singles and doubles titles since 1998. Her last defeat came in January 2003 and she is currently on a staggering 350-match winning streak. From August 2004 to October 2006, she didn't lose a single one of her 250 sets played.

1. Jahangir Khan: The Pakistani squash player set the standard for winning streaks when, as a 17-year-old in 1981, he started out on an incredible 555-match winning run which went on for five years. It is the longest winning streak in professional sporting history. In a glittering career, Khan won the World Open six times and the British Open a record 10 times. The most impressive moment in his career came in 1982, when he took the International Squash Players Association Championship without losing a single point.






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[jhkjurter]

I thought "Vince Spadea's 1R opponents" would have made the list.

[indianstory]

I thought "Vince Spadea's 1R opponents" would have made the list.

BAM!

[seodiary]

The Q came up in another thread, but I can't find it now, about someone winning 4 weeks in a row.

Martina N only played 4 weeks in a row once in her '84 season, and two of the weeks were the US Open. She did win every tournament she played in that stretch, but it was only 3 titles.

She had only played one tournament each in January, February, and March of that year. The WTA calendar looks very different these days ...