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. 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 a 1910 amateur match in the state of Washington. Then 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 more recent televised Golden Match involved Krittin Koaykul beating Artem Bahmet during a qualifying match at ITF World Tennis Tour event in Doha, and scoring the minimum 48 points to win.

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.

Player Event Round Opponent Final score Date Notes
Golden Set  Hazel Hotchkiss 1910 Washington State Championships, Seattle, Washington SF Golden Set  Mrs. Huiskamp (first name unknown) 6–0, 6–3 12 Aug 1910
Golden Set  Pauline Betz 1943 Tri-State tournament, Cincinnati, Ohio F Golden Set  Catherine Wolf 6–0, 6–2 1943
Golden Set  Bill Scanlon 1983 Delray Beach WCT 1R Golden Set  Marcos Hocevar 6–2, 6–0 22 Feb 1983 Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Golden Set  Tine Scheuer-Larsen 1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone RR Golden Set  Mmaphala Letsatle 6–0, 6–0 9 May 1995
Golden Set  Yaroslava Shvedova 2012 Wimbledon Championships 3R Golden Set  Sara Errani 6–0, 6–4 30 Jun 2012 Only golden set in main draw of a Major.
Golden Set  Julian Reister 2013 US Open qualifying Q2 Golden Set  Tim Pütz 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–0 20 Aug 2013 Only golden set in third set.
Golden Set  Stefano Napolitano 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup qualifying Q2 Golden Set  Augusto Virgili 6–0, 6–3 7 Jul 2015
Golden Set  Katarina Zavatska 2015 Chang ITF Pro Circuit – Bangkok $25,000 qualifying Q2 Golden Set  Thanyathorn Putthaun 6–0, 6–0 12 Dec 2015
Golden Set  He Yecong 2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualifying Q2 Golden Set  Wang Honghan 6–0, 6–0 7 Aug 2016
Golden Set  Benjamin Tullou 2016 France F17 Futures qualifying, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France Q1 Golden Set  Tomáš Fabián 6–0, 6–0 3 Sep 2016
Golden Set  Joffrey de Schepper 2016 France F23 Futures qualifying, Rodez, France Q1 Golden Set  Tomáš Fabián 6–0, 6–0 15 Oct 2016 Amateur opponent. Fabián won one point, avoiding another golden match against him.
Golden Set  Luis David Martínez 2017 Morelos Open qualifying Q1 Golden Set  Manfred Brandes Vogt 6–1, 6–0 18 Feb 2017
Golden Set  Dan Added 2018 France F5 Futures qualifying, Poitiers, France Q2 Golden Set  Freddy Prioton 6–0, 6–0 11 Mar 2018 Golden match.
Golden Set  Krittin Koaykul 2019 Doha M15 qualifying, Doha, Qatar Q1 Golden Set  Artem Bahmet 6–0, 6–0 8 Dec 2019 Golden match.
Golden Set  Jessie Aney 2021 W60 San Bartolomé de Tirajana qualifying, Spain Q1 Golden Set  Heranne Excellent 6–0, 6–0 15 Aug 2021 In the first set.
Golden Set  Anastasia Sysoeva 2022 W25 Naples, Florida qualifying, USA Q2 Golden Set  Fenni Lian 6–0, 6–0 17 May 2022 In the second set.

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