It’s safe to say that television ratings for the tennis tournament this weekend probably lost about 50% of its television audience. That’s because Roger Federer lost last night, and no one wants to watch Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick or any other tennis players that I can’t name off the top of my head.

Federer is to tennis what Tiger Woods was to golf. Without him, this sport gets very little recognition, and that is what will happen this weekend. Federer had won 41 consecutive matches before being beaten by Guillermo Canas. Canas was obviously just trying to help out his namesake Guillermo Vilas who managed to hang onto the record for consecutive matches won with 46 straight.

Of course, Federer can just keep up his other streak of 163 straight weeks of being the #1 ranked player in the world. I guess that isn’t such a bad thing to hold on to. Federer will just have to restart this streak again, and continue his dominant form, but until then everyone is stuck watching tennis players they don’t really care about.