Golden set

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 qualifier 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.[1]

A golden match is when a player does not lose a single point in the entire match. There are four documented cases of this at low-level events. Hazel Wightman first did so in a 1910 amateur match in the state of Washington. Then it happened thrice 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.[2]

List of occurrences
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

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

PlayerEvent RoundOpponentFinal scoreDateNotes
Hazel Hotchkiss 1910 Washington State Championships, Seattle, Washington SF Mrs. Huiskamp (first name unknown) 6–0, 6–3 12 Aug 1910 [3]
Pauline Betz 1943 Tri-State tournament, Cincinnati, Ohio F Catherine Wolf 6–0, 6–2 1943 [4]
Bill Scanlon 1983 Delray Beach WCT 1R Marcos Hocevar 6–2, 6–0 22 Feb 1983 Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Tine Scheuer-Larsen 1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone RR Mmaphala Letsatle 6–0, 6–0 9 May 1995 [5]
Yaroslava Shvedova 2012 Wimbledon Championships 3R Sara Errani 6–0, 6–4 30 Jun 2012 Only golden set in main draw of a Major.[6]
Julian Reister 2013 US Open qualifying Q2 Tim Pütz 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–0 20 Aug 2013 Only golden set in third set.[7][8]
Stefano Napolitano 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup qualifying Q2 Augusto Virgili 6–0, 6–3 7 Jul 2015 [9][10]
Katarina Zavatska 2015 Chang ITF Pro Circuit – Bangkok 25,000$ qualifying Q2 Thanyathorn Putthaun 6–0, 6–0 12 Dec 2015 [11]
He Yecong 2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualifying Q2 Wang Honghan 6–0, 6–0 7 Aug 2016 In the second set.[12][13]
Benjamin Tullou 2016 France F17 Futures qualifying, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France Q1 Tomáš Fabián 6–0, 6–0 3 Sep 2016 Amateur opponent. Golden match.[13]
Joffrey de Schepper 2016 France F23 Futures qualifying, Rodez, France Q1 Tomáš Fabián 6–0, 6–0 15 Oct 2016 Amateur opponent. Fabián won one point, avoiding another golden match against him.[14]
Luis David Martínez 2017 Morelos Open qualifying Q1 Manfred Brandes Vogt 6–1, 6–0 18 Feb 2017 [15]
Dan Added 2018 France F5 Futures qualifying, Poitiers, France Q2 Freddy Prioton 6–0, 6–0 11 Mar 2018 Golden match.[16][17]
Krittin Koaykul 2019 Doha M15 qualifying, Doha, Qatar Q1 Artem Bahmet 6–0, 6–0 8 Dec 2019 Golden match.[17][18]
Jessie Aney 2021 W60 San Bartolomé de Tirajana qualifying, Spain Q1 Heranne Excellent 6–0, 6–0 15 Aug 2021 In the first set.[19]

References
  1. "BBC Sport – Yaroslava Shvedova joins the exclusive 'golden set'". BBC Sport.
  2. "Joffrey De Schepper beat 55-year-old Tomas Fabian 6-0 6-0 in one of the fastest matches in tennis history!".
  3. "Miss Hotchkiss and Divine Star". The Spokesman-Review. 1910-08-13. p. 11.
  4. S. Smith, Phillip (2010). From Club Court to Center Court (PDF) (2010 ed.). p. 22. ISBN 978-0-9712445-8-0.
  5. Politiken, 10 May 1995, 1st Section, p.10
  6. "BBC Sport – Yaroslava Shvedova joins the exclusive 'golden set'". BBC Sport.
  7. "Tennis: Julian Reister réalise un historique "golden set"". 23 August 2013.
  8. "Match Stats". Archived from the original on 2013-09-01.
  9. "Stefano Napolitano's Golden Set (Italian)".
  10. Josh Meiseles (2015-07-09). "Thirty-Three Points Won In A Row? It Happened". Retrieved 2015-07-10.
  11. tennisnet (8 August 2016). "Ein perfekter Satz – 2 Chinesen sorgen für historisches Ereignis".
  12. Shukla, Balraj. "Saturday School: Has anyone ever won the Golden Set? - TrollTennis". trolltennis.com.
  13. tennisnet (3 September 2016). "Weltpremiere! Franzose Benjamin Tullou spielt "Golden Match"".
  14. "Rodez (ITF) - Joffrey de Schepper pas loin du golden match". www.tennisactu.tv.
  15. "ATP Challenger Tour on Twitter".
  16. "Golden match alert! Dan Added writes history against Freddy Prioton".
  17. https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/france-f5-futures/fra/2018/m-fu-fra-05a-2018/draws-and-results/
  18. "El peor tenista del mundo: El despropósito de Artem Bahmet en Catar". 9 December 2019.
  19. https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/w60-san-bartolome-de-tirajana-(gran-canaria)/esp/2021/w-itf-esp-19a-2021/draws-and-results
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