When Vitas Gerulaitis beat Jimmy Connors at the year-end tour championships in 1979, he famously said: “And let that be a lesson to you all... nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row!”
Prior to that, Connors had been his fellow American’s bogey player. It is unlikely John Isner’s losing record to Andy Murray will ever get to that extent, but his record is played eight, lost eight, going into their second-round match at Wimbledon this evening.
