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.
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.

List of occurrences

PlayerEventOpponentFinal scoreDateComments
Hazel Wightman1910 Washington State Championships, Washington Miss Huiskamp 6–0, 6–01910Golden match.
Pauline Betz1943 Tri-State tournament, Cincinnati, Ohio Catherine Wolf6–0, 6–21943
Bill Scanlon1983 Delray Beach WCT first round Marcos Hocevar6–2, 6–022 Feb 1983Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Tine Scheuer-Larsen1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Mmaphala Letsatle6–0, 6–09 May 1995
Yaroslava Shvedova2012 Wimbledon Championships third round Sara Errani6–0, 6–430 Jun 2012Only golden set in main draw of a Major.
Julian Reister2013 US Open qualifying Tim Pütz6–7, 6–4, 6–020 Aug 2013Only golden set in third set.
Stefano Napolitano2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup qualifying Augusto Virgili6–0, 6–37 Jul 2015
Katarina Zavatska2015 Chang ITF Pro Circuit – Bangkok 25,000$ qualifying Thanyathorn Putthaun6–0, 6–012 Dec 2015
He Yecong2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualifying Wang Honghan6–0, 6–07 Aug 2016In the second set.
Benjamin Tullou2016 France F17 Futures qualifying, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France Tomas Fabian6–0, 6–03 Sep 2016Amateur opponent. Golden match.
Joffrey de Schepper2016 France F23 Futures qualifying, Rodez, France Tomas Fabian6–0, 6–015 Oct 2016Amateur opponent. Fabian won one point for honor to avoid another golden match against him.
Luis David Martínez2017 Morelos Open qualifying Manfred Brandes Vogt6–1, 6–018 Feb 2017
Dan Added2018 France F5 Futures qualifying, Poitiers, France Freddy Prioton6–0, 6–011 Mar 2018Golden match.
Krittin Koaykul2019 Doha M15 qualifying, Doha, Qatar Artem Bahmet6–0, 6–08 Dec 2019Golden match.