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
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]

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]

See also

• Maximum break in snooker
• Nine-dart finish in darts
• Perfect game in bowling
• Perfect game in baseball

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".