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Kastles 32-Match Win Streak By The Numbers

Posted on September 19, 2012

0  – Losses

1  – Team to finish a season undefeated in 37-year WTT history

2  – Matches attended by Michelle Obama at Kastles Stadium at The Wharf

3  – WTT Award Winners in 2011 (Murphy Jensen, Leander Paes, Arina Rodionova)

4  – Supertiebreakers won

5  – WTT Championships won by Rennae Stubbs, who retired after the Kastles’ perfect season in 2011

6  – Deficit in games overcome by Venus Williams in the largest comeback in franchise history (WAS def. NYS 21-20 on 7/21/12)

7  – Matches that the Kastles have won by one game

8  – Hours it took Kastles to win the 2011 WTT Championship match, spanning 3 rain delays

9  – Match points needed by Bobby Reynolds to clinch the 2011 WTT Championship match

10 – Match points saved by the Kastles over the course of 3 different matches, all against the New York Sportimes

11 – Matches closed by Bobby Reynolds in the final set during the Kastles’ perfect 2011 season

12 – Sets played by Serena Williams in 2011; she won 9

13 – Sets won by Arina Rodionova out of 20 during the 2011 WTT season, earning her Female Rookie of the Year honors

14 – Victories at Kastles Stadium at The Wharf

15 – Games won by Venus Williams in the 2012 WTT Championship match, earning her MVP honors

16 – Victories during each of the Kastles’ two perfect seasons

17 – Largest margin of victory in franchise history (WAS def. KCE 25-8 on 7/22/12)

18 – Years difference in age between 2011 Kastles women’s doubles partners Rennae Stubbs and Arina Rodionova

19 – Games won out of 29 by Arina Rodionova during 2011 WTT Finals Weekend, earning her MVP honors

20 – Games won in the 2012 WTT Championship match (WAS def. SAC 20-19 on 9/16/12)

21 – Mixed Doubles sets won out of 28 by Leander Paes and 4 different partners (Stubbs, S. Williams, V. Williams, An. Rodionova)

22 – Men’s Doubles sets won out of 28 by Leander Paes and Bobby Reynolds

23 – Games won in the 2011 WTT Championship match (WAS def. STL 23-19 on 7/24/11)

24 – Games lost out of 72 by Leander Paes in men’s doubles during the 2012 WTT regular season, ranking him 1st in the league

25 – Maximum number of games that can be won in a WTT match, accomplished 6 times by the Kastles

26 – Straight wins by the 1916 New York Giants, the longest all-time MLB winning streak passed by the Kastles on July 24, 2012

27 – Age of Kastles substitute Edina Gallovits-Hall, who helped the team win its final 4 matches of the 2012 WTT regular season

28 – Regular season victories, dating back to July 22, 2010

29 – Grand Slam finals reached by Kastles captain Leander Paes

30 – Grand Slam finals reached by Venus Williams of the Kastles

31 – Age that Bobby Reynolds, Anastasia Rodionova and Raquel Kops-Jones turn in 2013

32 – Victories