Most dominant slam final performance ever?

[ghostofMecir]

Djokovic had a 2.40 dominance ratio over Nadal in last night’s final. Before this final, Djokovic’s most dominant slam Finals win was in 2011 over Murray at the AO (1.54; 6-4,6-2, 6-3). In that match, Murray won 78 points overall compared to Nadal’s 53 last night and won 26 return points to Nadal’s 13. In Djokovic’s 2016 SF AO defeat of Federer. Djokovic had a 1.64 dominance ratio. Federer won 82 points overall and 26 points on return. In Federer’s 2004 defeat of Hewitt at the USO (6-0, 7-6, 6-0), Hewitt won 64 points overall and 29 on return.

Only JMac’s obliteration of Connors in 1984 was a more dominant victory.

Dominance ratio captures how well a player did much better than the score line since tennis’ peculiar scoring system can mean a player who won fewer points overall can win a match and the peculiar system can mean a player who won many, many more return points than his opponent could lose a match.

Definition: (% of points won on opponents' serves) / (% of points lost on own serve).

e.g. if you are winning 30% of return points and your opponents are winning 20% of points on your serve (i.e. you are winning 80% of points on serve) then you have a DR of 30% / 20% = 1.5 @falstaff78 with the definition.

1. 2.79, 1984 Wim: JMac over Connors (Connors won 11 return points)
2. 2.40, 2019 AO: Djokovic over Nadal (Nadal won 13 out of 69 points on return)
3. 2.23, 1987 Wimb: Cash over Lendl (Lendl won 15 out of 81 points on return)
4. 2.22, 2017 RG: Nadal over Wawrinka (Wawa won 15 out of 65 points on return)
5. 2.20, 2003 AO: Agassi over Schuttler (Schuttler won 15 out of 65 points on return
6. 2.18, 1991 USO: Edberg over Courier (Courier won 15 out of 66 points on return)
7. 2.13, 2017 Wimb: Federer over Cilic (Cilic won 15 out of 70 points on return)
8. 2.03, 2007 AO: Federer over Gonzo (Gonzo won 17 out of 86 points on return)
9. 2.03, 1997 AO: Sampras over Moya (Moya won 18 out of 69 points on return)
10. 2.00, 2017 USO: Nadal over Anderson (Anderson won 15 out of 72 points on return)
11. 1.97, 1974 USO: Connors over Rosewall (Rosewall won 23 out of 70 points on return)
12. 1.94, 1986 USO: Lendl over Mecir (Mecir won 15 out of 57 points on return)
13. 1.91, 2008 RG: Nadal over Federer (Federer won 19 out of 61 points on return)
14. 1.89, 2005 Wimb: Federer over Roddick (Roddick won 17 out of 79 points on return)
15. 1.84, 2009 RG: Federer over Soderling (Soderling won 17 out of 79 points on return
16. 1.83, 1995 Wimb: Sampras over Becker (Becker won 24 out of 105 points on return)
17. 1.83, 1990 USO: Sampras over Agassi (Agassi won 17 out of 72 points on return)
18. 1.83, 1995 Wimb: Sampras over Becker (Becker won 31 out of 136 points on return)

1.77, 2022 RG: Nadal over Rudd (Rudd won 19 out of 61 points on return)
1.72, 1997 Wimb: Sampras over Pioline (Pioline won 18 out of 95 points on return)
1.71, 1994 USO: Agassi over Stich (Stich won 22 out of 94 points on return)
1.71, 1993 USO: Sampras over Pioline (Pioline won 23 out of 85 points on return)
1.68, 2003 USO: Roddick over JCF (JCF won 19 out of 87 points on return)

I don’t have the DRs calculated for matches like JMac over Lendl USO, over Lewis Wimby as these would be on here. Probably missing some others.

 

[Moose Malloy]

McEnroe won 83 of 125 pts in the 1984 W final. Lost 11 points on serve.

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/stats-for-1984-w-final-mcenroe-connors.171490/

If my math is correct Mac had a DR of 2.785

Connors won 82 of 124 pts in the 1974 USO Final, not sure how many pts he lost on serve

 

[BeatlesFan]

Some memorable blowouts:

2003 Australian Open: Agassi- Schuettler 6-2, 6-2, 6-1

2008 French Open: Nadal-Fed 6-1, 6-3, 6-0

1977 French Open: Vilas-Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0

1974 U.S. Open: Connors-Rosewall 6-1, 6-2, 6-1

 

[smoledman]

None of those can match Super Bowl 24: 49ers 55 Broncos 10!

 

[Mustard]

1984 Wimbledon F: John McEnroe def. Jimmy Connors (6-1, 6-1, 6-2)

McEnroe was seeing the tennis ball like the size of a basketball that day. Only 2 unforced errors by McEnroe in the entire match.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Graf destroyed Zvereva 6-0 6-0 at the 1988 French Open final with Zvereva winning just 13 points in the match.

 

[smoledman]

Interesting that 2004 US Open final dominance ratio was only 1.6! I guess 2 bagels can fool you, the games were more competitive than the final score indicates.

 

[ibbi]

Most dominant ever. Would like to know how many points poor Gottfried managed.

 

[Mustard]

Some memorable blowouts:

2003 Australian Open: Agassi- Schuettler 6-2, 6-2, 6-1

2008 French Open: Nadal-Fed 6-1, 6-3, 6-0

1977 French Open: Vilas-Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0

1974 U.S. Open: Connors-Rosewall 6-1, 6-2, 6-1

The 1974 US Open final was 6-1, 6-0, 6-1. Scoreline wise, that's more one sided, but having watched both matches I think the 1984 Wimbledon final felt like even more of a crushing.

 

[Mustard]

Interesting that 2004 US Open final dominance ratio was only 1.6! I guess 2 bagels can fool you, the games were more competitive than the final score indicates.

Hewitt was a scrapper. After losing the first 8 games of the match, he did great to take that second set to a tiebreak.

 

[BGod]

Borg 1978 is and might always be the absolute height of obliteration. Still lowest games allowed in a Slam run, he didn't have any walkovers or retirements and he allowed more than a single game only once in his last 7 sets recording 3 bagels. The final was 6-1, 6-1, 6-3.

Although 98 AO with freaking Korda massacring Rios 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 is mention-able.

 

[TripleATeam]

None of those can match Super Bowl 24: 49ers 55 Broncos 10!

Broncos don't do so hot, do they? 24 years later at Super Bowl 48, Seahawks 43, Broncos 8!

 

[Deleted member 688153]

Look at how many of them are recently

 

[smoledman]

Broncos don't do so hot, do they? 24 years later at Super Bowl 48, Seahawks 43, Broncos 8!

Broncos have been blown out in Super Bowls 4 times!

 

[Mustard]

Borg 1978 is and might always be the absolute height of obliteration. Still lowest games allowed in a Slam run, he didn't have any walkovers or retirements and he allowed more than a single game only once in his last 7 sets recording 3 bagels. The final was 6-1, 6-1, 6-3.

Borg's 1978 French Open final win over Vilas felt like an epic though, because of the rallies, despite the 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 scoreline. One rally was 86 strokes in that match.

 

[ghostofMecir]

Interesting that 2004 US Open final dominance ratio was only 1.6! I guess 2 bagels can fool you, the games were more competitive than the final score indicates.

Second set was really competitive. Hewitt had set points. This match last night was never competitve in the least. From the very first game, it seems like Nadal was hanging on for dear life. Had Nadal’s serve with the extra pop not been there, he realisticslky would have win 3 or 4 games since he couldn’t win anything off the ground.

Edit: Hewitt never had set points but rather broke at 4-5 down after a long serve game from Fed. @abmk

 

[Moose Malloy]

@ghostofMecir

This one doesn't top Mac's 2.785 and isn't a final(only mentioning it since you mentioned the 2016 AO SF), but it's pretty impressive.

Edberg had a 2.57 DR vs Wilander in the 1990 AO SF

Used stats here https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/stats-for-1990-ao-sf-edberg-wilander.179739/

 

[Moose Malloy]

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[Moose Malloy]

Can't believe I forgot this one(esp since I was there)
1991 USO Final Edberg d Courier 62, 64, 60
Don't have complete stats but published reports said that Courier only won 15 out of 66 pts on Edberg's serve. And Edberg broke Courier 6 times, so I'm guessing he won a good % of pts on return.

 

[abmk]

Can't believe I forgot this one(esp since I was there)
1991 USO Final Edberg d Courier 62, 64, 60
Don't have complete stats but published reports said that Courier only won 15 out of 66 pts on Edberg's serve. And Edberg broke Courier 6 times, so I'm guessing he won a good % of pts on return.

you were there ? wow ! lucky you.

From this :

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/stats-for-1991-uso-final-edberg-courier.199742/

Edberg won 51/66 points on serve
Courier won 46/91 points on serve

(total points won by Courier was 61. he won 15 points on Edberg's serve. So 46 on his own serve. Since Edberg served 66 points out of a total 157, Courier must have served 91 points)

return points won by Edberg = 45/91
return points won by Courier = 15/66

DR = 2.18

 

[abmk]

Second set was really competitive. Hewitt had set points. This match last night was never competitve in the least. From the very first gene, it seems like Nadal was hanging on for dear life. Had Nadal’s serve with the extra pop not been there, he realisticslky would have win 3 or 4 games since he couldn’t win anything off the ground.

Hewitt didn't have any SP in the 2nd set.
Federer was serving for the set at 5-4. Hewitt finally in a long game to make it 5 all.

Federer ran away with the TB. 7-3.

 

[abmk]

Interesting that 2004 US Open final dominance ratio was only 1.6! I guess 2 bagels can fool you, the games were more competitive than the final score indicates.

in the 1st and 3rd set combined, Fed had a DR of 3.3

26/36 return points won as compared to 7/32 return points won by Hewitt.

bagels didn't fool anyone.

2nd set was obviously competitive and brings down the DR of the match.

 

[abmk]

2007 AO: Federer 2.03 over Gonzo (Gonzo won 17 out of 86 points on return)

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This one truly stands out as Gonzo was actually playing pretty well as opposed to others on the list.

 

[abmk]

McEnroe won 83 of 125 pts in the 1984 W final. Lost 11 points on serve.

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/stats-for-1984-w-final-mcenroe-connors.171490/

If my math is correct Mac had a DR of 2.785

Connors won 82 of 124 pts in the 1974 USO Final, not sure how many pts he lost on serve

Return points won :

Connors : 35/54
Rosewall : 23/70

https://www.tennis-worldusa.org/ten...s-rosewall-in-most-onesided-grand-slam-final/
(remove hypen b/w tennis and worldusa)

DR = 1.97
that's lower than what one would expect for a measly 2 games lost.

 

[Holdfast44ID]

Too bad Rafa's nerves got the best of him. Just made it that much worse. Totally surprised me. Based on the way both were playing leading up to the final, I thought it would be a much closer match.

 

[ewiewp]

Djokovic had a 2.40 dominance ratio over Nadal in last night’s final. Before this final, Djokovic’s most dominant slam Finals win was in 2011 over Murray at the AO (1.54; 6-4,6-2, 6-3). In that match, Murray won 78 points overall compared to Nadal’s 53 last night and won 26 return points to Nadal’s 13. In Djokovic’s 2016 SF AO defeat of Federer. Djokovic had a 1.64 dominance ratio. Federer won 82 points overall and 26 points on return. In Federer’s 2004 defeat of Hewitt at the USO (6-0, 7-6, 6-0), Hewitt won 64 points overall and 29 on return.

Only JMac’s obliteration of Connors in 1984 was a more dominant victory.

Dominance ratio captures how well a player did much better than the score line since tennis’ peculiar scoring system can mean a player who won fewer points overall can win a match and the peculiar system can mean a player who won many, many more return points than his opponent could lose a match.

Definition: (% of points won on opponents' serves) / (% of points lost on own serve).

e.g. if you are winning 30% of return points and your opponents are winning 20% of points on your serve (i.e. you are winning 80% of points on serve) then you have a DR of 30% / 20% = 1.5 @falstaff78 with the definition.

1984 Wim: JMac 2.79 over Connors (Connors won 11 return points)

2019 AO: Djokovic 2.40 over Nadal (Nadal won 13 out of 69 points on return)

2017 RG: Nadal 2.22 over Wawrinka (Wawa won 15 out of 65 points on return)

2003 AO: Agassi 2.20 over Schuttler (Schuttler won 15 out of 65 points on return

2017 Wimb: Federer 2.13 over Cilic (Cilic won 15 out of 70 points on return)

2007 AO: Federer 2.03 over Gonzo (Gonzo won 17 out of 86 points on return)

1997 AO: Sampras 2.03 Over Moya (Moya won 18 out of 69 points on return)

2017 USO: Nadal 2.00 over Anderson (Anderson won 15 out of 72 points on return)

2008 RG: Nadal 1.91 over Federer (Federer won 19 out of 61 points on return)

2005 Wimb: Federer 1.89 over Roddick (Roddick won 17 out of 79 points on return)

2009 RG: Federer 1.84 over Soderling (Soderling won 17 out of 79 points on return

1995 Wimb: Sampras 1.83 over Becker (Becker won 24 out of 105 points on return)

I don’t have the DRs calculated for matches like JMac over Lendl USO, over Connors Wimby, over Lewis Wimby as these would be on here. Lendl over Mecir as well. Probsbly missing some others.

Djokovic has just become different animal from semi-finals of slams.
He mastered "peaking at the right time" skill.

 

[krosero]

Djokovic had a 2.40 dominance ratio over Nadal in last night’s final. Before this final, Djokovic’s most dominant slam Finals win was in 2011 over Murray at the AO (1.54; 6-4,6-2, 6-3). In that match, Murray won 78 points overall compared to Nadal’s 53 last night and won 26 return points to Nadal’s 13. In Djokovic’s 2016 SF AO defeat of Federer. Djokovic had a 1.64 dominance ratio. Federer won 82 points overall and 26 points on return. In Federer’s 2004 defeat of Hewitt at the USO (6-0, 7-6, 6-0), Hewitt won 64 points overall and 29 on return.

Only JMac’s obliteration of Connors in 1984 was a more dominant victory.

Dominance ratio captures how well a player did much better than the score line since tennis’ peculiar scoring system can mean a player who won fewer points overall can win a match and the peculiar system can mean a player who won many, many more return points than his opponent could lose a match.

Definition: (% of points won on opponents' serves) / (% of points lost on own serve).

e.g. if you are winning 30% of return points and your opponents are winning 20% of points on your serve (i.e. you are winning 80% of points on serve) then you have a DR of 30% / 20% = 1.5 @falstaff78 with the definition.

1984 Wim: JMac 2.79 over Connors (Connors won 11 return points)

2019 AO: Djokovic 2.40 over Nadal (Nadal won 13 out of 69 points on return)

2017 RG: Nadal 2.22 over Wawrinka (Wawa won 15 out of 65 points on return)

2003 AO: Agassi 2.20 over Schuttler (Schuttler won 15 out of 65 points on return

2017 Wimb: Federer 2.13 over Cilic (Cilic won 15 out of 70 points on return)

2007 AO: Federer 2.03 over Gonzo (Gonzo won 17 out of 86 points on return)

1997 AO: Sampras 2.03 Over Moya (Moya won 18 out of 69 points on return)

2017 USO: Nadal 2.00 over Anderson (Anderson won 15 out of 72 points on return)

2008 RG: Nadal 1.91 over Federer (Federer won 19 out of 61 points on return)

2005 Wimb: Federer 1.89 over Roddick (Roddick won 17 out of 79 points on return)

2009 RG: Federer 1.84 over Soderling (Soderling won 17 out of 79 points on return

1995 Wimb: Sampras 1.83 over Becker (Becker won 24 out of 105 points on return)

I don’t have the DRs calculated for matches like JMac over Lendl USO, over Connors Wimby, over Lewis Wimby as these would be on here. Lendl over Mecir as well. Probsbly missing some others.

I've got one that would be #3 on the list: 1987 Wimby final, Cash d. Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Cash lost 13 games so it doesn't look like a blowout, but DR is sky-high because he was always threatening and extending Lendl's serve, while coasting on his own. He lost no service points in the second set (golden service set, almost achieved by Novak yesterday), and overall dropped only 15 service points.

And he made only 8 UE's in the match, by one count (another had him at 11).

It was early in the third set and about 2 hours in, and Bud Collins noted in the booth that Cash had still made only 3 or 4 UE's, which was comparable to what Mac had done in '84.

Cash won 66 of 81 service points (81.5%), Lendl 77 of 131 (58.8%).

DR is 41.2/18.5 = 2.23

 

[AndyM]

Yes it was a total destruction

 

[krosero]

Most dominant ever. Would like to know how many points poor Gottfried managed.

Score was 6-1, 6-1, 6-0

Perry won 53 of 83 service points (63.9%), von Cramm 24 of 60 (40.0%)

DR is 1.66

1938 Wimbledon final, Budge d. Austin 6-1, 6-0, 6-3
(Budge dropped 4 games, the Wimbledon record that Mac tied in '84)
DR was 1.59

1932 Wimbledon final, Vines d. Austin 6-4, 6-2, 6-0
DR was also 1.59

 

[Benben245]

Nadal against Federer in 2008 French was more dominant, Nadal's level in this final was so low it hurts the excitement behind the blowout. Imagine a next gen player blowing djokovic off the court when playing at his final level, that would be something.

 

[Moose Malloy]

Return points won :

Connors : 35/54
Rosewall : 23/70

https://www.tennis-worldusa.org/ten...s-rosewall-in-most-onesided-grand-slam-final/
(remove hypen b/w tennis and worldusa)

DR = 1.97
that's lower than what one would expect for a measly 2 games lost.

Yeah well it's hard to imagine Connors going through any match without getting pushed on serve a little bit.

Also, based on the many discussions/stats over the years, I think it's sort of clear that dominant serving performances(of the nature of losing only 10-15 points in a match) were probably incredibly rare in the 70s(and probably the 30s to 60s as well based on stats Krosero has found)
Players just broke more back then. I think Mac in 84 may have taken serving to a much higher level(in terms of points/games won) than anyone in history had done at that point.

 

[krosero]

@ghostofMecir

This one doesn't top Mac's 2.785 and isn't a final(only mentioning it since you mentioned the 2016 AO SF), but it's pretty impressive.

Edberg had a 2.57 DR vs Wilander in the 1990 AO SF

Used stats here https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/stats-for-1990-ao-sf-edberg-wilander.179739/

One month earlier Becker had a 2.33 DR vs Wilander in the '89 Davis Cup final (indoors)

Score was 6-2, 6-0, 6-2

Becker won 50 of 66 points on his serve (75.8%), Wilander 33 of 76 (43.4%).

 

[Pheasant]

Wow! Borg's 1978 FO final win over Guillermo doesn't make the cut with a DR of 1.745.

McEnroe's win over Lendl in the 1984 USO final makes the list with a 1.838 DR. This one shocks me.

 

[objection_]

Nadal against Federer in 2008 French was more dominant, Nadal's level in this final was so low it hurts the excitement behind the blowout. Imagine a next gen player blowing djokovic off the court when playing at his final level, that would be something.

Only took 5 years... Out of curiosity, what was alcaraz's DR at wim 2024 final, excluding the choke from 5-4 up? He hadn't been broken until having championship points right?

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

Graf destroyed Zvereva 6-0 6-0 at the 1988 French Open final with Zvereva winning just 13 points in the match.

Has to be this one.

 

[Moose Malloy]

Has to be this one.

DR on that match is 5.25

 

[buscemi]

Another competitor could be BJK crushing Goolagong, 6-0, 6-1 in the 1975 Wimbledon final on the heels of Goolagong beating Wade and straight setting Court in the QF/SF.

Sure, she lost 1 game vs. 0 for Graf against Zvereva, but she was playing a much tougher opponent. From all accounts, she was in a similar zone as the one that McEnroe was in 9 years later.

 

[Turning Pro]

I dunno, i see games lost and bagels and Breadsticks as a barometer.

Nadal 6-0,6-2,7-5. FO 2020.
Nadal 6-1,6-3,6-0. FO 2008.
Federer 6-0,7-6,6-0. US 2004.

 

[Moose Malloy]

Another competitor could be BJK crushing Goolagong, 6-0, 6-1 in the 1975 Wimbledon final on the heels of Goolagong beating Wade and straight setting Court in the QF/SF.

Sure, she lost 1 game vs. 0 for Graf against Zvereva, but she was playing a much tougher opponent. From all accounts, she was in a similar zone as the one that McEnroe was in 9 years later.

Well, it's mostly about barely losing points on serve, not really about games lost. Look at Connors-Rosewall, his DR was "only" 1.97 despite only losing 2 games, while Cash was pushed to 2 tb's vs Lendl but had a higher DR at 2.23. Doubt anyone is close to Graf '88. Shame the King Goolagong final isn't on youtube.

Martina's DR was 1.5 vs Jaeger in the '83 W Final(60, 63 score). She was only broken once, but statistically not particularly dominant on serve in this match.

here are some high DR's for women's finals (per TA)

3 - 2009 AO Serena d Safina
2.46 - 2012 Olympics Serena d Sharapova
2.24 - 1992 Wimbledon Graf d Seles
2.08 - 2005 RG Henin d Pierce
2.07 - 1984 RF Navratilova d Evert(this may be the most impressive win of her career, to dominate the clay GOAT like this?)
2.07 - 2010 USO Clijsters d Zvonareva
2 - 2007 AO Serena d Sharapova
1.97 2024 RG Swiatek d Paolini
1.85 - 2007 RG Henin d Ivanovic
1.83 - 2014 Wimbledon Kvitova d Bouchard
1.82 - 2010 Wimbledon Serena d Zvonareva
1.81 - 1986 USO Navratilova d Sukova
1.78 - 2017 USO Stephens d Keys
1.78 - 1997 USO Hingis d Venus

 

[Moose Malloy]

I dunno, i see games lost and bagels and Breadsticks as a barometer.

Nadal 6-0,6-2,7-5. FO 2020.
Nadal 6-1,6-3,6-0. FO 2008.
Federer 6-0,7-6,6-0. US 2004.

Yeah DR is a fun stat, but when a 76, 62, 76 score comes up as the 3rd most dominant major final of all time, it does make one give pause.

 

[BauerAlmeida]

Interesting that 2004 US Open final dominance ratio was only 1.6! I guess 2 bagels can fool you, the games were more competitive than the final score indicates.

Hewitt had some BPs in a few games before eventually getting the break back in the 2nd.

 

[ghostofMecir]

Only took 5 years... Out of curiosity, what was alcaraz's DR at wim 2024 final, excluding the choke from 5-4 up? He hadn't been broken until having championship points right?

Over the first two sets it was 1.81. There were some long serve games in set three. Carlitos won 7 of 8 points to get to 5-4, 40-0, but even then, the DR for him at that point innthe 3rd set was 1.2. So, for the entire match to 5-4, 40-0, it would be around 1.61 or so.

 

[buscemi]

Well, it's mostly about barely losing points on serve, not really about games lost. Look at Connors-Rosewall, his DR was "only" 1.97 despite only losing 2 games, while Cash was pushed to 2 tb's vs Lendl but had a higher DR at 2.23. Doubt anyone is close to Graf '88. Shame the King Goolagong final isn't on youtube.

Martina's DR was 1.5 vs Jaeger in the '83 W Final(60, 63 score). She was only broken once, but statistically not particularly dominant on serve in this match.

here are some high DR's for women's finals (per TA)

3 - 2009 AO Serena d Safina
2.46 - 2012 Olympics Serena d Sharapova
2.24 - 1992 Wimbledon Graf d Seles
2.08 - 2005 RG Henin d Pierce
2.07 - 1984 RF Navratilova d Evert(this may be the most impressive win of her career, to dominate the clay GOAT like this?)
2.07 - 2010 USO Clijsters d Zvonareva
2 - 2007 AO Serena d Sharapova
1.97 2024 RG Swiatek d Paolini
1.85 - 2007 RG Henin d Ivanovic
1.83 - 2014 Wimbledon Kvitova d Bouchard
1.82 - 2010 Wimbledon Serena d Zvonareva
1.81 - 1986 USO Navratilova d Sukova
1.78 - 2017 USO Stephens d Keys
1.78 - 1997 USO Hingis d Venus

According to the New York Times, BJK won the match in 39 minutes, ceding only 24 points to Goolagong (who was coming off winning the AO on grass w/out dropping a set earlier in the year, dispatching Navratilova, 6-3, 6-2 in the final). King said, “It's as close as I've ever come to a perfect match.”

Given the quality of the opponent, I'm picking this is the most dominant performance in a Slam final.

 

[Tano]

1984 Wimbledon F: John McEnroe def. Jimmy Connors (6-1, 6-1, 6-2)

McEnroe was seeing the tennis ball like the size of a basketball that day. Only 2 unforced errors by McEnroe in the entire match.

Peak John was no joke!