The Luckiest Loser: Canada’s Polansky can extend historic streak at U.S. Open
Peter Polansky showed his excitement after receiving a lucky loser entry into Wimbledon last month by tweeting a photo of the Joker, the villain from the Batman film “The Dark Knight.”
The picture of Heath Ledger’s character maniacally driving a police car — with his head out the window, eyes closed and hair whipping back in the wind — was accompanied by a caption that sums up Polansky’s Grand Slam season perfectly: “You gotta beat me twice to make me leave.”
Polansky’s lucky loser spot at Wimbledon was his third of the year, making the Thornhill, Ont., native the first player in the Open Era to receive entries by that method into three consecutive majors in the same season.
With qualifying for the U.S. Open set to begin Tuesday, he could stretch that lucky loser streak into a calendar slam.