Poll: Most Dominant AO Title Run

Most Dominant AO Title Run?

  • 1971 Rosewall

    Votes: 5 7.4%

  • 2000 Davenport

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • 2007 Federer

    Votes: 40 58.8%

  • 2008 Sharapova

    Votes: 6 8.8%

  • 2011 Djokovic

    Votes: 16 23.5%
  • Total voters
    68
Berrettini_Fan

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1971 Ken Rosewall: No sets lost. Beat Roy Emerson in QF and Arthur Ashe in F.
2000 Lindsay Davenport: No sets lost. Beat Capriati in SF and Hingis in F (Hingis hadn't lost a set making it to F)
2007 Roger Federer: No sets lost. Beat Djokovic in 4R, Roddick in SF, and Fernando Gonzales in F.
2008: Maria Sharapova: No sets lost. Beat Henin in QF, Jankovic in SF, and Ivanovic in F.
2011 Novak Djokovic: One set lost. Beat Berdych in QF, Federer in SF, and Murray in F.
 
Berrettini_Fan said:
1971 Ken Rosewall: No sets lost. Beat Roy Emerson in QF and Arthur Ashe in F.
2000 Lindsay Davenport: No sets lost. Beat Capriati in SF and Hingis in F (Hingis hadn't lost a set making it to F)
2007 Roger Federer: No sets lost. Beat Djokovic in 4R, Roddick in SF, and Fernando Gonzales in F.
2008: Maria Sharapova: No sets lost. Beat Henin in QF, Jankovic in SF, and Ivanovic in F.
2011 Novak Djokovic: One set lost. Beat Berdych in QF, Federer in SF, and Murray in F.
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Hard to argue against that Federer 2007 run. All you Gen Alpha skibidi toilet fans should go watch that Federer-Roddick semi at least once. Just a nonstop 2-hour highlight reel of a match. Took the racquet completely out of Roddick's hands.
 
At this point @nolefam_2024 would be able to say that the most dominant run at the Australian Open was Alcaraz's last one in the 2025 edition.

Again, his comments about Alcaraz in recent weeks remind me of a Robin Williams movie where the actor played a guy who was growing old while still young.
 
Nadal won 18 sets in a row at 2019 AO, didn't win the Final but still very impressive, considering he had ankle surgery at the end of 2018 and couldn't train much.

"....because of the things that happened to me in terms of surgery, then what happened in Abu Dhabi, I was not able to work that much the defensive game. I worked a lot on the offensive game, but not that much on the defensive game.
To play against a player like him, playing the way he played tonight, I needed that defensive game to finally have the chance to be offensive, no?"
https://ausopen.com/articles/interviews/rafael-nadal-f-interview
 
Bride of Alcaraz said:
Nadal won 18 sets in a row at 2019 AO, didn't win the Final but still very impressive, considering he had ankle surgery at the end of 2018 and couldn't train much.

"....because of the things that happened to me in terms of surgery, then what happened in Abu Dhabi, I was not able to work that much the defensive game. I worked a lot on the offensive game, but not that much on the defensive game.
To play against a player like him, playing the way he played tonight, I needed that defensive game to finally have the chance to be offensive, no?"
https://ausopen.com/articles/interviews/rafael-nadal-f-interview
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Exactly.

Nadal crushed Tsitsipas in the semi final in devastation fashion. But Djokovic then destroyed Pouille in even more devastating fashion in the other semi final.
 
Mustard said:
No Courier 1993?

No Agassi 1995 or 2003?
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My tennis coach gave me videos of 1995 AO Agassi :p stunning :p
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That Federer won was a laugh! In '07, he beat 19-year-old Djokovic, and of course he beat Roddick and Gonzales!

I voted for 2019, when Djokovic routed Nadal in the final!
 
Racquet_smash said:
Fred taking down Roddick in a hour was insane to see. You'd think such a good server would never be destroyed so quickly on a hard court in a bo5 match, and yet he had no shot from the start.
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I wonder if his 1st Serve% was low, because if a big server is not making the 1st Serve, they won't serve many aces/unreturnables.... and you can break them regularararararaly (y)
 
Cabeza del Demonio said:
Hard to argue against that Federer 2007 run. All you Gen Alpha skibidi toilet fans should go watch that Federer-Roddick semi at least once. Just a nonstop 2-hour highlight reel of a match. Took the racquet completely out of Roddick's hands.
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And to think Roddick believed that winning the Kooyong exho would give him a confidence boost :-D :-D :-D
 
Racquet_smash said:
Roddick had a decent 62% 1st balls in which isn't amazing but it's not bad at all either. He just won about 50% of those point however.
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That's incredible, because Roddick has served HUGE amounts of aces vs. Federer in other matches, so 62% should be enough to hold serve at least a couple of times...
Federer is very good at blunting a player's power, so you gotta ace him.
 
Bride of Alcaraz said:
That's incredible, because Roddick has served HUGE amounts of aces vs. Federer in other matches, so 62% should be enough to hold serve at least a couple of times...
Federer is very good at blunting a player's power, so you gotta ace him.
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Roddick had just beaten Federer 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, in the final of the 2007 Kooyong exhibition tournament, so expectations were high that Roddick could give Federer a tough match in their 2007 Australian Open semi final. However, considering that Roddick had tough matches against Tsonga, Safin and Ancic earlier in the 2007 Australian Open tournament, perhaps people should have been wiser.
 
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Racquet_smash said:
Fred taking down Roddick in a hour was insane to see. You'd think such a good server would never be destroyed so quickly on a hard court in a bo5 match, and yet he had no shot from the start.
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I effing loved that takedown. Great Roddick presser afterwards, too.
 
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It’s Sharapova and it’s not even close. As usual the Big 3 loving TTW comes up with amusing poll result though

Sharapova averaged under 2.5 games lost per set. She got taken to 7-5 only once and never faced a tiebreak. As far as I know no-one ever served for a set against her and she never faced any set points, unlike Federer, who also had multiple tiebreaks
 
2007 AO and 2005 SW19 was the highest level Fed ever produced. Just insane level. Noone even 2016 , 2011 Djokovic would beat him.
Djokovic would be able to make it more competitive but that is about it
 
Mustard said:
Roddick had just beaten Federer 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, in the final of the 2007 Kooyong exhibition tournament, so expectations were high that Roddick could give Federer a tough match in their 2007 Australian Open semi final. However, considering that Roddick had tough matches against Tsonga, Safin and Cilic earlier in the 2007 Australian Open tournament, perhaps people should have been wiser.
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Fed should have always been clear favorite but admittedly that big a beating wasn't to have been known.
 
jl809 said:
It’s Sharapova and it’s not even close. As usual the Big 3 loving TTW comes up with amusing poll result though

Sharapova averaged under 2.5 games lost per set. She got taken to 7-5 only once and never faced a tiebreak. As far as I know no-one ever served for a set against her and she never faced any set points, unlike Federer, who also had multiple tiebreaks
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People forgot how dominant a previous season Henin had coming into that AO.
 
Berrettini_Fan said:
People forgot how dominant a previous season Henin had coming into that AO.
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Yeah. Going into the AO Henin hadn't lost since Wimbledon in 2007 (which she admitted later she tanked against Bartoli because she was afraid of Venus). She had just beaten Sharapova at the YEC (in a barn burner, but she won)...Then she gets curb stomped in the QF of the AO by an on fire Sharapova. Sharapova flattened Davenport, Dementieva, Henin, Jankovic and Ivanovic. Only Ivanovic managed to really challenge her for a set, but Sharapova never lost composure or Control. She ran a hitting clinic for 7 rounds.
 
Berrettini_Fan said:
1971 Ken Rosewall: No sets lost. Beat Roy Emerson in QF and Arthur Ashe in F.
2000 Lindsay Davenport: No sets lost. Beat Capriati in SF and Hingis in F (Hingis hadn't lost a set making it to F)
2007 Roger Federer: No sets lost. Beat Djokovic in 4R, Roddick in SF, and Fernando Gonzales in F.
2008: Maria Sharapova: No sets lost. Beat Henin in QF, Jankovic in SF, and Ivanovic in F.
2011 Novak Djokovic: One set lost. Beat Berdych in QF, Federer in SF, and Murray in F.
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Sinner only got broken 4 times in his 2025 run. Federer got broken 4 times in the match against Robredo in their QF in 2007. Sinners own should definitely be apart of it
 
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Sinner only got broken 4 times in his 2025 run. Federer got broken 4 times in the match against Robredo in their QF in 2007. Sinners own should definitely be apart of it
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He lost 2 sets. If you lose more than 1 set during a title run, it's not dominant in my book. Plus his opponents this year in the AO were less than stellar. Imagine placing his draw up there. What should I say? He beat Holger Rune in the 4R and Ben Shelton in the SF? LOL
 
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He lost 2 sets. If you lose more than 1 set during a title run, it's not dominant in my book. Plus his opponents this year in the AO were less than stellar. Imagine placing his draw up there. What should I say? He beat Holger Rune in the 4R and Ben Shelton in the SF? LOL
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He wasn’t well against Holger and still only got broken once
 
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jl809 said:
It’s Sharapova and it’s not even close. As usual the Big 3 loving TTW comes up with amusing poll result though

Sharapova averaged under 2.5 games lost per set. She got taken to 7-5 only once and never faced a tiebreak. As far as I know no-one ever served for a set against her and she never faced any set points, unlike Federer, who also had multiple tiebreaks
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Having a perfect set record in a Bo5 slam is significantly harder than doing so in Bo3.

Sharapova deserves a good mention of course, but not even close? Don't be ridicoulous.
 
Racquet_smash said:
Having a perfect set record in a Bo5 slam is significantly harder than doing so in Bo3.

Sharapova deserves a good mention of course, but not even close? Don't be ridicoulous.
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Why should that count against Sharapova? It doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day she never even came close to losing a set, unlike the others. Under the terms of OP’s thread, she’s top by daylight

You’re right though that it’s harder for men, so more sense imo instead of penalising Sharapova is to split by men and women to adjust for that. In which case, I’m guessing Fed is top followed by Rosewall (who had to play fewer matches)
 
Agassi's 2003 should be there, one of the worst draws ever but his games won ratio etc...was off the charts IIRC. For the men Federer comes top for doing it without dropping a set. Games, times broken etc...are secondary to dropping sets. Being broken thrice in a set and winning it is better than being broken once in a set and losing it.
 
Djokovic 2011, lost only one set in a tie break and beat Murray and Federer in straights in the SF and F (+ Berdych in straights too).
 
Barton said:
What it tells us that 2007 Federer was more dominant than 2011 Djokovic at the AO?
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And Federer was a point away from beating Djokovic at 2011 US Open :D
Djokovic is not so great after all (n) if even the slower Federer can beat PEAK Djokovic...
 
Bride of Alcaraz said:
And Federer was a point away from beating Djokovic at 2011 US Open :D
Djokovic is not so great after all (n) if even the slower Federer can beat PEAK Djokovic...
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3 times out of 3. Shows Djokovic was permanently in Federer's head! On Djokovic's bad day, he still won over Federer's fabulous day!
 
SonnyT said:
3 times out of 3. Shows Djokovic was permanently in Federer's head! On Djokovic's bad day, he still won over Federer's fabulous day!
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Djokovic was bad every time he faced Federer at the US Open?
And 2012 Wimbledon and 2019 Wimbledon?
Not sure about that, since we keep hearing how classic their meetings were, especially 2010 and 2011 US Opens (y)
Really every match they play is on Federer's racquet anyway, as he's a lot more aggressive than Djokovic, and has more variety than Djokovic too.
 
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