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
United States Hazel Wightman Washington State Championships 1910 in Washington United States Miss Huiskamp (first name unknown) 6–0, 6–0 [1]
United States Pauline Betz Tri-State tournament 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio United States Catherine Wolf 6–0, 6–2 [2]
United States Bill Scanlon first round of the WCT Gold Coast Classic at Delray Beach on February 22, 1983 Brazil Marcos Hocevar 6–2, 6–0 recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records
Denmark Tine Scheuer-Larsen 1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Botswana Mmaphala Letsatle 6–0, 6–0 [3]
Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova 2012 Wimbledon Championships Italy Sara Errani 6–0, 6–4 [4]
Germany Julian Reister 2013 US Open qualifying Germany Tim Puetz 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–0 [5]
Italy Stefano Napolitano 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup Qualifying Italy Augusto Virgili 6–0, 6–3 [6][7]
Ukraine Katarina Zavatska Chang ITF Pro Circuit 2015 - Bangkok 25 000 $ Qualifying Thailand Thanyathorn Putthaun 6–0, 6–0 [8]
China Yecong He 2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualification China Honghan Wang 6–0, 6–0
France Benjamin Tullou France F17 Futures Qualyfing, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France Czech Republic 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

References

  1. ↑ All-Time Records, Tennis Magazine, February 1981, page 72
  2. ↑ S. Smith, Phillip (2010). From Club Court to Center Court (PDF) (2010 ed.). p. 22. ISBN 0-9712445-8-8.
  3. ↑ Politiken, 10 May 1995, 1st Section, p.10
  4. ↑ "BBC Sport – Yaroslava Shvedova joins the exclusive 'golden set'".
  5. ↑ "Match Stats".
  6. ↑ "Stefano Napolitano's Golden Set (Italian)".
  7. ↑ Josh Meiseles (2015-07-09). "Thirty-Three Points Won In A Row? It Happened.". Retrieved 2015-07-10.
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/hotdog6969/status/675728828677902336/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ "Shvedova wins 'Golden Set' against Errani".
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