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Nadal run not the best

Author: Lynda Collins
Date: 08/06/2009

Rafael Nadal's winning streak at the French Open was halted at 31 matches by defeat to Robin Soderling last week.

The Spaniard was aiming to win the year's second Grand Slam for the fifth consecutive time and was a runaway favourite in the online betting markets.

Nadal had appeared unbeatable on clay before his surprise fourth round defeat to the Swede at Roland Garros.

But all good things must come to an end and Nadal's stunning record dating back to 2005 leads to the question: what are the longest winning streaks in sport?

Squash - Jahangir Khan

Considered the greatest player in the history of the game, Khan did not lose a competitive game in a five-year period between 1981-1986 - at 555 it is the longest winning run in the history of professional sport.

Only the arrival on the scene of fellow Pakistani Jansher Khan in the late 1980s stopped Jahangir from dominating well into the next decade.

400m hurdles - Edwin Moses

The two-time Olympic gold medalist was untouchable in his discipline during a decade of dominance. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 successive races) and set world records on four separate occasions during the same period.

Formula One - Michael Schumacher

The German was crowned world champion for the seventh and final time in 2004 following a season of total dominance. Schumacher won a record 12 of the first 13 races of the season - winning seven in a row - and ended the season with 148 points, 34 ahead of the runner-up and Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello.

Test Cricket - Australia

Between 1999-2001 nobody in world cricket could live with the all-conquering Australians. The Baggy Greens were won 16 consecutive Test matches starting with a ten-wicket thrashing of Zimbabwe in Harare in October 1999 and ending with a 171-run defeat to India in Calcutta almost two years later.

In a sport that is renowned for draws, their achievement was considerable.

Boxing - Sugar Ray Robinson

Regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter of all-time, Robinson won 91 consecutive fights between 1946 to 1951 when he was first world welterweight champion and then went on to dominate the middleweight division.

Before turning professional in 1940 he also had an 85-0 record as an amateur, with 69 of those victories coming by way of knockout.

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