Nadal won 32 consecutive sets at the French Open, from the 2007 final to the 2009 4th round. I'm pretty sure that's a record.
Not the record actually..Borg won 41 straight sets at the French between 1979-1981
Fed won 30 straight at the Aussie
Fed won 34 straight at Wimbledon
Lendl won 26 straight at the US Open
Those are the records for the 4 majors since 1972 (according to Wikipedia)
Not sure about stats before that or specific surfaces. I would guess Nadal is up there on clay along with guys like Borg, Vilas and several others.
Was going to post about Borg, but don't get how fed could have won 34 consecutive sets at wimbledon when he never won it without dropping a set. maybe its 34 matches.
EDIT.Oh wait I see. If you won the last 6 matches of a slam without dropping a set and the next first six the next year you could get up to 36 sets for instance.
Ya I just looked. Fed dropped the second set to Keifer in the 3rd round of Wimbledon in 2005 and then won every set he played there until he dropped the third set to Rafa in the 2006 final.
Djokovic's longest streak as far as I can tell is 18.
No, Djokovic's streak is much better:
AO 2011 2R Djokovic-Dodig 7-5 6-7 6-0 6-2
AO 2012 4R Djokovic-Hewitt 6-1 6-3 4-6 6-3
So that would be 26....
*Djokovic-Troicki AO 2011 3R 6-2 Troicki ret.
Re-read Steve's post
Coria once won 35 sets in a row on clay.
The great clay contender vs. Rafa that was never to be.
If he'd won Rome 2005... who knows what wouldve happened at the FO.
I believe Federer or JMac has the record for consecutive sets won across all surfaces. I'm trying to check it, but the service on the ATP site is down.
8 months off for the golden calf ?The great clay contender vs. Rafa that was never to be.
If he'd won Rome 2005... who knows what wouldve happened at the FO.
Not the record actually..Borg won 41 straight sets at the French between 1979-1981
Fed won 30 straight at the Aussie
Fed won 34 straight at Wimbledon
Lendl won 26 straight at the US Open
Those are the records for the 4 majors since 1972 (according to Wikipedia)
Not sure about stats before that or specific surfaces. I would guess Nadal is up there on clay along with guys like Borg, Vilas and several others.