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Golden set

Tennis set won without losing a point

Summary

Tennis set won without losing a point

In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without losing a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win the set 6–0, without conceding any points.

In professional tennis, this has occurred twice in the main draw of top-level events. It has also happened a number of times in the pre-tournament qualifiers of the lowest-level events. Bill Scanlon had a golden second set in his win over Marcos Hocevar at the 1983 Delray Beach WCT event. Yaroslava Shvedova had a golden first set in her win over Sara Errani at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Steffi Graf came close to achieving the feat in the finals of the 1989 Virginia Slims of Washington tournament, winning the first five games to love against Zina Garrison, before winning the match 6–1, 7–5. At the 2023 Western & Southern Open, Taylor Fritz won the first five games to love in his round of sixteen match before his opponent, Dusan Lajovic, retired.

A golden match is when a player does not lose a single point in the entire match. There are five documented cases of this at low-level events. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman did so in the 1910 Washington State Championships, defeating a Miss Huiskamp (first name unknown). Later it happened twice in France in the qualifiers of lowest-level professional events, two of them in the span of two months, both against the same 55-year-old man, Tomas Fabian. A golden match occurred in the qualifiers of an ITF Men's World Tennis Tour event in Doha in 2019, where Krittin Koaykul beat Artem Bahmet. Bahmet was a professional sports bettor who had entered the tournament without having played tennis before; his associate bet against him and won roughly €3,000.

List of occurrences

Main draws of top-level professional events are in boldface.

PlayerEventRoundOpponentFinal scoreDateNotes
USA Hazel Hotchkiss1910 Washington State Championships, Seattle, WashingtonSFUSA Mrs. Huiskamp (first name unknown)6–0, 6–312 Aug 1910
USA Pauline Betz1943 Tri-State tournament, Cincinnati, OhioFUSA Catherine Wolf6–0, 6–21943
USA Bill Scanlon1983 Delray Beach WCT1RBRA Marcos Hocevar6–2, 6–022 Feb 1983Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
DEN Tine Scheuer-Larsen1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa ZoneRRBOT Mmaphala Letsatle6–0, 6–09 May 1995
KAZ Yaroslava Shvedova2012 Wimbledon Championships3RITA Sara Errani6–0, 6–430 Jun 2012Only golden set in main draw of a Major.
GER Julian Reister2013 US Open qualifyingQ2GER Tim Pütz6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–020 Aug 2013Only golden set in third set.
ITA Stefano Napolitano2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup qualifyingQ2ITA Augusto Virgili6–0, 6–37 Jul 2015
UKR Katarina Zavatska2015 Chang ITF Pro Circuit – Bangkok $25,000 qualifyingQ2THA Thanyathorn Putthaun6–0, 6–012 Dec 2015
CHN He Yecong2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualifyingQ2CHN Wang Honghan6–0, 6–07 Aug 2016
FRA Benjamin Tullou2016 France F17 Futures qualifying, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, FranceQ1CZE Tomáš Fabián6–0, 6–03 Sep 2016url=http://www.spox.com/de/tennisnet/1609/Artikel/itf-bagneres-de-bigorre-weltpremiere-franzose-benjamin-tullou-spielt-golden-match-69963.htmltitle=Weltpremiere! Franzose Benjamin Tullou spielt "Golden Match"last=tennisnetdate=3 September 2016}}
FRA Joffrey de Schepper2016 France F23 Futures qualifying, Rodez, FranceQ1CZE Tomáš Fabián6–0, 6–015 Oct 2016Amateur opponent. Fabián won one point, avoiding another golden match against him.
VEN Luis David Martínez2017 Morelos Open qualifyingQ1MEX Manfred Brandes Vogt6–1, 6–018 Feb 2017
FRA Dan Added2018 France F5 Futures qualifying, Poitiers, FranceQ2FRA Freddy Prioton6–0, 6–011 Mar 2018Golden match.
THA Krittin Koaykul2019 Doha M15 qualifying, Doha, QatarQ1UKR Artem Bahmet6–0, 6–08 Dec 2019date=August 2022}}
USA Jessie Aney2021 W60 San Bartolomé de Tirajana qualifying, SpainQ1FRA Heranne Excellent6–0, 6–015 Aug 2021In the first set.
Anastasia Sysoeva2022 W25 Naples, Florida qualifying, USAQ2CHN Fenni Lian6–0, 6–017 May 2022In the second set.
GER Emily Seibold2024 W15 Krško main draw, Slovenia1RCZE Denise Hrdinkova6–3, 6–016 Jul 2024

References

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  19. https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/france-f5-futures/fra/2018/m-fu-fra-05a-2018/draws-and-results/ {{Bare URL inline. (August 2022)
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