Golden Set
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In a league match at 4.0 many years ago, I played this guy who was barely above a beginner. In talking to him before the match, he said all he has done for the last few months is hit a ball against the wall. All I did the whole match was to hit the ball back in the middle of the court and leave him hit the ball. I think I won something like 48 out of 51 points. At one point I won around 30-some straight points. Unfortunately it was over 2 sets. I probably could have won all the points but I felt sorry for the guy and left him get some exercise. That was the closest I came to a golden set.
DNShade
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I have. About 10 months ago. Just a guy I met at the courts one time when I was looking for new people to hit with in the area. He was a good athlete and not a completely terrible player - maybe low 4.0 or so...he could hit okay (actually hit very hard - part of his problem - needs a little more control) and I was always nice when he would come up and want to hit around when I wasn't hitting with anyone else, etc.
Well this one day he just kept saying that he wanted to see what it would be like to really play a set...I said nah..but he insisted. So we did. And I really did play easy - hitting "third" serves and just trying to keep the point going for him. Well at about 4-0 40-0 I realized all of a sudden that I hadn't lost a point for the whole set. And sure enough I closed out the next games at love as well. No big thing - but it was kind of interesting. Not for winning - but for not making a mistake just playing around half a$$ed.
Well this one day he just kept saying that he wanted to see what it would be like to really play a set...I said nah..but he insisted. So we did. And I really did play easy - hitting "third" serves and just trying to keep the point going for him. Well at about 4-0 40-0 I realized all of a sudden that I hadn't lost a point for the whole set. And sure enough I closed out the next games at love as well. No big thing - but it was kind of interesting. Not for winning - but for not making a mistake just playing around half a$$ed.
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slice bh compliment
G.O.A.T.
^Wow. TO borrow a line from the PGA, ''These guys are good.''
I played college tennis and some satellites. I never even came close to a golden set. Actually I don't ever recall being beaten 6-love. I remember maybe bageling a beginner or two in 14s or 16s.
I once met Bill Scanlon in SoCal, and I asked him about it. He still can hardly believe he got one in men's professional tennis. Marcos Hocevar, was it?
ANyway, the odds are staggering.
I played college tennis and some satellites. I never even came close to a golden set. Actually I don't ever recall being beaten 6-love. I remember maybe bageling a beginner or two in 14s or 16s.
I once met Bill Scanlon in SoCal, and I asked him about it. He still can hardly believe he got one in men's professional tennis. Marcos Hocevar, was it?
ANyway, the odds are staggering.
DNShade
Hall of Fame
Yeah. it was a strange thing. I didn't even realize it till it was almost over and I had to think and go - oh yeah - I haven't lost a point - that's kinda strange. Like I said, the most impressive thing was me not making some kind of dumb error - especially since I was playing one third speed and even more so after I realized what the score was.
Again - wasn't something I set out to do - and it's not exactly going to go down as a great "win" do to the level discrepancy...just something that happened.
Again - wasn't something I set out to do - and it's not exactly going to go down as a great "win" do to the level discrepancy...just something that happened.
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fruitytennis1
Professional
A coach of mine beat me 6-0 and i scored 2 points. Dang that guy can play.
What level are you that you gave a golden set to a 4.0 player? This seems unlikely to me (the 4.0 part).
DNShade
Hall of Fame
Well he plays in 4.0 events and even higher I guess and seems to do fine...so I'll go by that. 3.5-4.0-4.5 - who cares? The level thing can be so arbitrary...
As for me- I can hit pretty well. Again I wasn't posting this to say how great I am - not at all. Just was something that happened and someone else posted asking if anyone had done it, etc. so I replied.
As someone posted above - Bill Scanlon golden setted another pro player in an ATP event - so it happens even between pros now and then.
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I played in a national 30's hardcourt tournament. One guy signed up because he thought it was a 3.0 tourney. He had to play the 1 seed first round. The 1 seed had a top 200 ATP ranking in the 90's and had wins against Safin and Kuerten. I believe the 3.0 won two points the whole match because the other guy hit two shots out by about an inch. It took 20 minutes. He didn't show up for his consolation match.
No disrespect meant in any way...I was just curious because the feat seems soooo hard to do.
But my perspective is a bit skewed because I'm just a 3.0 trying really hard to get to 3.5 and most of the 4.0s I know are pretty decent players. It's just hard to imagine they wouldn't hit a freak winner or ace during any kind of match when their opponent is say less than 5.5 or so...
DNShade
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None taken. It is quite unusual, and yes - I do play at a pretty high level. I've been playing for 25 plus years and there have been lots of 6-0's - but to be honest, I'd never even thought about a pulling off a "golden set" really before - till I was almost at the end of that set I was discussing when it hit me. The most surprising thing to me was that as soon as I realized what was going on that I didn't just hit the next ball ten feet out.
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GRANITECHIEF
Hall of Fame
How bout a silver set, where you never lose a point on serve?
I've done that at least once.
I've done that at least once.
slice bh compliment
G.O.A.T.
Nice, chief, thanks. I've never heard it called a silver set. I have a big serve and I don't recall that either way.
I do remember losing a 6-0 set, though, now that I've thought about it. It was in juniors -- I lost 6-0, 6-4 to a guy who later made it to the rd of 16 at a slam. So now I don't feel so bad. In fact, I guess I feel okay about not getting steamrolled in the second set.
I do remember losing a 6-0 set, though, now that I've thought about it. It was in juniors -- I lost 6-0, 6-4 to a guy who later made it to the rd of 16 at a slam. So now I don't feel so bad. In fact, I guess I feel okay about not getting steamrolled in the second set.
ubermeyer
Hall of Fame
im sure karlovic has done that
ubermeyer
Hall of Fame
I handed a golden set to my 7 year old twin brothers. They were playing doubles against me, and they could use the alleys but I couldn't. I wasn't really trying to do this... but they barely even got most of their 2nd serves in. But of course they're 7... so not even an achievement in any way.
I also almost golden-setted my 9 year old brother, but on the last 2 points i decided to crack my serve (both) as hard as possible, resulting in 2 DFs in a row... again, not an achievement in any way since he's 9...
I also almost golden-setted my 9 year old brother, but on the last 2 points i decided to crack my serve (both) as hard as possible, resulting in 2 DFs in a row... again, not an achievement in any way since he's 9...
Cindysphinx
G.O.A.T.
slice bh compliment
G.O.A.T.
Yeah.
That guy has got balls...to follow through on a little bit of ignorance like that. Not right, kind of sad...definitely embarrassing and humbling....but admirable that he endured a beating like that.
Probably learned a thing or two...and has a fun/humiliating tennis anecdote to share with his fellow hackers back home. Probably not that different from a 5.0 talking about how he got thrashed by a tour guy back in juniors or in college. [ahhemm]
Leelord337
Hall of Fame
i did this in the game topspin w/my created andre agassi player, and i was on hard too
was really awesome but haven't done it in person...yet
precision2b
Semi-Pro
Don't think i blame him...LOL!!!
diggler
Hall of Fame
I was playing social tennis today. Admittedly the opponents were not very good. Nevertheless, we were up 5 love 40 love when my partner hit a regulation ball long. I couldn't believe it. I have been playing 40 years and never come this close and that happens. My Shvedova moment!
njhmusicman
Semi-Pro
I've never had one, but I had two girls on my high school team who played a match and got a golden match where they never lost a point the entire match
socallefty
G.O.A.T.
Four love games is the maximum I’ve had in a set, but I don’t think it was even a bagel set.
LiamMiguel
Semi-Pro
Had one in a conference match my freshman year. Didn't lose a point from 4-0 up in the first. I didn't know it was his senior day until the day after :/ . That school is now leaving our conference, but they look like they're going to be good soon.
