Golden set
In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without dropping a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win a set 6–0, without conceding any points. In professional, top-tier tennis, this has only been accomplished seven times.
History
Only three men and four women in the history of top-tier professional tour tennis are known to have achieved a golden set. In 1910, the four-time grand slam singles winner Hazel Wightman achieved a golden match in which she did not lose a point the entire match.
Player | Tournament | Opponent | Final score | Comments |
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Hazel Wightman | Washington State Championships 1910 in Washington | Miss Huiskamp (first name unknown) | 6–0, 6–0 | [1] |
Pauline Betz | Tri-State tournament 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio | Catherine Wolf | 6–0, 6–2 | [2] |
Bill Scanlon | first round of the WCT Gold Coast Classic at Delray Beach on February 22, 1983 | Marcos Hocevar | 6–2, 6–0 | recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records |
Tine Scheuer-Larsen | 1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone | Mmaphala Letsatle | 6–0, 6–0 | [3] |
Yaroslava Shvedova | 2012 Wimbledon Championships | Sara Errani | 6–0, 6–4 | [4] |
Julian Reister | 2013 US Open qualifying | Tim Puetz | 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–0 | [5] |
Stefano Napolitano | 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup Qualifying | Augusto Virgili | 6–0, 6–3 | [6][7] |
Katarina Zavatska | Chang ITF Pro Circuit 2015 - Bangkok 25 000 $ Qualifying | Thanyathorn Putthaun | 6–0, 6–0 | [8] |
Yecong He | 2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualification | Honghan Wang | 6–0, 6–0 | |
Benjamin Tullou | France F17 Futures Qualyfing, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France | Tomas Fabian | 6–0, 6–0 |
Close calls
According to Tennis.com, Yaroslava Shvedova had already been one point away from a golden set in a 2006 match against Amy Frazier: she was serving at 5 games to love and 40–0, when she double-faulted.[9] Shvedova would go on to win that set but lose the match, 6-1, 0-6, 0-6.
See also
- Maximum break in snooker
- Nine-dart finish in darts
- Perfect game in bowling
- Perfect game in baseball
References
- ↑ All-Time Records, Tennis Magazine, February 1981, page 72
- ↑ S. Smith, Phillip (2010). From Club Court to Center Court (PDF) (2010 ed.). p. 22. ISBN 0-9712445-8-8.
- ↑ Politiken, 10 May 1995, 1st Section, p.10
- ↑ "BBC Sport – Yaroslava Shvedova joins the exclusive 'golden set'".
- ↑ "Match Stats".
- ↑ "Stefano Napolitano's Golden Set (Italian)".
- ↑ Josh Meiseles (2015-07-09). "Thirty-Three Points Won In A Row? It Happened.". Retrieved 2015-07-10.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/hotdog6969/status/675728828677902336/. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ "Shvedova wins 'Golden Set' against Errani".