Anyone know what record for most consecutive sets won is?

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McEnroeisanartist

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Anyone know what the record for most consecutive sets won in all matches is?

I have no idea.

I know McEnroe won 35 straight 1984 Davis Cup 1st Round to 1984 Forest Hills. And another streak of 30 straight that same year.

I know Federer won 31 straight from 2006 Tennis Masters Cup to 2007 Dubai.

I know Nadal won 25 straight from 2008 Hamburg to 2008 Queens.

Djokovic's longest in 2011 was 18.
 
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McEnroeisanartist said:
Anyone know what the record for most consecutive sets won in all matches is?

I have no idea.

I know McEnroe won 35 straight 1984 Davis Cup 1st Round to 1984 Forest Hills. And another streak of 30 straight that same year.

I know Federer won 31 straight from 2006 Tennis Masters Cup to 2007 Dubai.

I know Nadal won 25 straight from 2008 Hamburg to 2008 Queens.

Djokovic's longest in 2011 was 18.
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More proof that Fed, Mac are two of the greatest.
 
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tudwell

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Not sure, but it might be Tilden. I think he had a 100+ match win streak going for a while, most of them in straight sets. He was just so much better than everyone else playing at his time.
 
LazyNinja19

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No one with a life should be knowing an answer to such a ridiculous & useless stat. :neutral:





unless of course the ATP pays you to gather such numbers.



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Gizo

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Borg won 39 sets in a row in 1980 from the WCT invitational in Salisbury in February to Las Vegas in April.

Coria won 32 sets in a row in 2003 during the summer clay court season, when he impressively won the titles at Stuttgart, Kitzhubel and Sopot in 3 consecutive weeks without dropping a single set.

I'm not sure what the record is though.
 
Steve0904

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Gizo said:
Borg won 39 sets in a row in 1980 from the WCT invitational in Salisbury in February to Las Vegas in April.

Coria won 32 sets in a row in 2003 during the summer clay court season, when he impressively won the titles at Stuttgart, Kitzhubel and Sopot in 3 consecutive weeks without dropping a single set.

I'm not sure what the record is though.
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If Borg did win 39 as you say, then that is probably the record for the open era. I don't recall anyone getting past 39.
 
Mustard

Mustard

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Jim Courier won 27 sets in a row in April and May 1992.

Going into the 1977 US Open final, Guillermo Vilas had won his last 29 sets in a row. Later that same year, Vilas won 33 sets in a row. Yet listen to ATP computer stats people, and they'll say that Vilas was never world number 1 :lol:
 
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jg153040

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Mustard said:
Jim Courier won 27 sets in a row in April and May 1992.

Going into the 1977 US Open final, Guillermo Vilas had won his last 29 sets in a row. Later that same year, Vilas won 33 sets in a row. Yet listen to ATP computer stats people, and they'll say that Vilas was never world number 1 :lol:
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Number 1 is not about how many sets you win, it's about how many total sets you win. I bet there was someone who won more total sets than Vilas.
 
Mustard

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jg153040 said:
Number 1 is not about how many sets you win, it's about how many total sets you win. I bet there was someone who won more total sets than Vilas.
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Vilas won 72 of his last 73 matches of the 1977 calendar year, and 74 out of 75 if you want to go into the January 1978 Masters where Vilas defeated the eventual champion, Connors.
 
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Gizo

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Steve0904 said:
If Borg did win 39 as you say, then that is probably the record for the open era. I don't recall anyone getting past 39.
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Well I've just spotted that Lendl won 43 consecutive sets from September to November 1985. He won his last 12 sets at the US Open, all 10 sets at Stuttgart, all 11 sets at Sydney and all 10 sets at Tokyo, before losing the opening set of his 1st round at Wembley (where he went on to win the title anyway).

Winning 43 straight sets at tournaments on outdoor hard courts, clay, indoor hard courts and indoor carpet was incredibly impressive, as he went on an absolute tear at the end of 1985 to begin his ruthless domination of men's tennis from the 1985 US Open to the 1987 Masters.

In fact Lendl had numerous streaks of winning 25 consecutive sets or more during his career. Day in day out he was the dominant player of the open era in the smaller tour events, so I guess that isn't such a big surprise.
 
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jg153040

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Mustard said:
Vilas won 72 of his last 73 matches of the 1977 calendar year, and 74 out of 75 if you want to go into the January 1978 Masters where Vilas defeated the eventual champion, Connors.
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So, you are smarter than the ATP and we should use your ranking system?

By the way, do you have a better ranking system to propose, if you aren't happy with the current one?
 
Mustard

Mustard

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Jimmy Connors in 1974 won 44 sets in a row:

8 sets in a row to win Little Rock
8 sets in a row to win Birmingham, Alabama
12 sets in a row to win Salisbury
10 sets in a row to win Hampton
6 sets in a row to get the final of Salt Lake City - Connors lost the first set of the final against Gerulaitis, before coming back to win 4-6, 7-6, 6-3
 
Mustard

Mustard

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jg153040 said:
So, you are smarter than the ATP and we should use your ranking system?

By the way, do you have a better ranking system to propose, if you aren't happy with the current one?
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In case you didn't know, the world rankings from before the 1984 US Open are totally unreliable. McEnroe was number 1 in 1982 according to the ATP computer, yet he didn't win any of the 4 majors and nor did he win the Masters at MSG nor the WCT Dallas event. Connors, meanwhile, won Wimbledon and the US Open in 1982. That's just one such example.
 
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jg153040

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Mustard said:
In case you didn't know, the world rankings from before the 1984 US Open are totally unreliable. McEnroe was number 1 in 1982 according to the ATP computer, yet he didn't win any of the 4 majors and nor did he win the Masters at MSG nor the WCT Dallas event. Connors, meanwhile, won Wimbledon and the US Open in 1982. That's just one such example.
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But that was before. Now ranking system is refined and computers are more reliable. Such mistakes don't happen today. It's impossible.
 
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dh003i

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Vilas winning 74/75 of his last matches in 1977 is really impressive...but wait, I thought Borg had "weak" competition in a "weak era"? LOL.
 
ollinger

ollinger

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The OP simply can't help himself. He asks a question but has some compulsion to point out that Djokovic is nowhere near holding the record he inquires about. Completely gratuitous and unnecessary, but unable to resist an opportunity to smear the competition. Very low-rent behavior.
 
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Gizo

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Connors won 50 consecutive sets in 1976 at Palm Springs (12), Denver (6), Las Vegas (10), Nottingham (10), and Wimbledon (12), before he was straight setted by Tanner in his Wimbledon quarter-final.
 
MichaelNadal

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McEnroeisanartist said:
Anyone know what the record for most consecutive sets won in all matches is?

I have no idea.

I know McEnroe won 35 straight 1984 Davis Cup 1st Round to 1984 Forest Hills. And another streak of 30 straight that same year.

I know Federer won 31 straight from 2006 Tennis Masters Cup to 2007 Dubai.

I know Nadal won 25 straight from 2008 Hamburg to 2008 Queens.

Djokovic's longest in 2011 was 18.
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Thanks! I either didn't know or forgot. :shock: whoa
 
Silverbullet96

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I heard that Fed didn't drop a set starting from USO 2004 QF to AO 2005 SF. I don't know the number though.
EDIT - That was wrong, sorry.
 
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abmk

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federer on a streak of 28 sets now ( cincy - 10, USO - 18 ) ..

will likely be broken by Novak in the final today .....
 
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