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Britain's worst professional tennis player finally wins his first match after 54 consecutive defeats

Robert Dee is a good loser. With 54 lost matches in a row, he has had to be.

But the 21-year-old British tennis player has finally tasted victory after three long years on the lowest rungs of the professional circuit. And he likes it. When Dee faced American Arzhang Derakhshani in Barcelona last Saturday he was only one defeat away from the record 55 consecutive losses.

Never once had he managed to reach the elusive second round of a tournament. But something went wrong - or rather, right - and Dee found himself claiming his first victory on the circuit with a respectable 6-4, 6-3 tally.
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Over the next three years he played all over the world - in the less than glamorous locations of Sudan, Rwanda, Senegal, Iran, Botswana and Colombia. Then, in March, he equalled the record for the longest losing streak on the so-called futures circuit when he was beaten for the 54th consecutive time.
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His optimism was, however, shortlived. In the second round of the Barcelona tournament he lost 6-3 6-1 to Poland's Artur Romanowski.
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Hoezo kansloos.. we hebben het hier dus over kwalificaties van futures hè.. Kan beter wat anders zoeken ipv geld van zijn pa (moet toch haast wel) blijven verspillen.