What term is often used to describe a 6-0 scoreline in a set of a Tennis match?
"Bagel (tennis) In tennis, a bagel is a term denoting a situation when the set ends with a score of 6–0. Despite the slang character of the term, it is actively used not only in colloquial speech but also in print. An extremely rare type of bagel, where no point is lost, is called a Golden Set. Most bagel sets occur in the early rounds of tennis tournaments where the favorites meet with lower ranked players such as a lucky loser or a wild card. From 2004 to 2015, on the basis of the results of the tennis season, a"
"matches, as happens quite frequently if the traditional tennis rule for winning a set is followed. When players reach a score of 6–6 in a set, instead of continuing the set until one opponent wins with a two-game difference, a special game is played to decide the winner of the set; the winner is the first to reach at least seven points with a difference of two over the opponent. This however does not apply to the 5th set of matches at the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon Championships; allowing the total number of games in a match to"
"game (tying the set 6–6) a ""tie-break"" is played. A tie-break, played under a separate set of rules, allows one player to win one more game and thus the set, to give a final set score of 7–6. A ""love"" set means that the loser of the set won zero games, colloquially termed a 'jam donut' in the USA. In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the winner of the set and the overall score. The final score in sets is always read with the winning player's score first, e.g. ""6–2, 4–6, 6–0, 7–5"". A match consists of a sequence"
"is won 7–5 (or 5-7). If the trailing player wins the game, the score is tied at 6–6 and a special tiebreaker game is played. The winner of the tiebreak wins the set by a score of 7–6 (or 6-7). The tiebreak is sometimes not employed for the final set of a match and an advantage set is used instead. Therefore, the deciding set must be played until one player or team has won two more games than the opponent. This is true in two of the four major tennis championships. The exceptions are the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]], where"
"5-5, the player must then win by two games, however at 6-6, a tiebreak is played to determine who wins the set. The tiebreak rules are the first player to reach seven points win the tiebreak and set, at 6 points all, the player who wins two consecutive points wins the tiebreak and the set. -The Games per set option allows the player to choose the number of games to win a set. The minimum is two games and the maximum is 6. -Sets per Match determines how many sets are in the match. As with typical tennis, you can"
"""six–seven"" regardless of the score in the tiebreak. If a match ends prematurely due to one player retiring or being disqualified (defaulting), the partial score at that point is announced as the final score, with the remaining player as the nominal winner. For instance, the result in the final of the [[2012 Aegon Championships]] is written: During informal play of tennis, especially at tennis clubs in the U.S. (also in other English speaking countries), score announcements are frequently shortened with the use of abbreviations. For example, a score 15 is replaced with ""five"", or in some cases ""fif"". Similarly, the"
"score is tied at 6–6, a tie-break game (or tiebreaker) is played. Typically, the tie-break game continues until one player wins seven points by a margin of two or more points. However, many tie-break games are played with different tiebreak point requirements, such as 8 or 10 points. Often, a 7-point tie-breaker is played when the set score is tied at 6-6 to determine who wins the set. The score of games within a set is counted in the ordinary manner, except when a player or team has a score of no games it is read as ""love"". The score"
"scores first. As an example, consider a match between [[Victoria Azarenka]] and [[Ana Ivanovic]]. Azarenka wins the first set 6–4, Ivanovic wins the next set 7–6, and Azarenka wins the final set 6–0. At the end of each set, the umpire would announce the winner of each set: At the completion of the match, the result would be announced as: The result would be written as: The score is always written and announced in respect to the winner of the match. The score of the tiebreak is not included in announcing the final result; it is simply said ""seven–six"" or"
"four games in each set, all by a score of game-love. The loser has scored 4×8 = 32 points and the winner zero in those games. The final score is a win by 6–4, 6–4; total points 48–56. An example of this in actual practice was the record-breaking [[Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships|Isner-Mahut match]] in the Wimbledon first round, 22–24 June 2010. American [[John Isner]] beat [[Nicolas Mahut]] of France 6–4, 3–6, 6–7, 7–6, 70–68 – Mahut winning a total of 502 points to Isner's 478. Likewise, a player may lose a match despite winning the majority of"
"Golden set In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without dropping a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win a set 6–0, without conceding any points. In professional, top-tier tennis, this has been accomplished only a few times. A golden match, in which an opponent does not lose a single point in an entire ""match"", has only been recorded three times in the history of competitive tennis, and never in a best of 5 set match. Hazel Wightman of the United States recorded the first competitive golden match in 1910. It"
"(e.g. 6–3 or 7–5). There is usually a tie-break if the set is tied at six games per player. A match is won when a player or a doubles team wins the majority of prescribed sets. Matches employ either a best-of-three or best-of-five set format. The best-of-five set format is typically only played in the men's singles or doubles matches at Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches. A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first side to have won at least four points with a margin of two"
"at game point and during the final point of tiebreaks. In tennis, a set consists of a sequence of games played with alternating service and return roles. There are two types of set formats that require different types of scoring. An ""advantage set"" is played until a player or team wins 6 games and that player or team has a 2-game lead over their opponent(s). The set continues, without tiebreak(er), until a player or team wins the set by 2 games. Advantage sets are no longer played under the rules of the United States Tennis Association; however, they are still"
"two tennis players who at different times were ranked No. 1 in the ATP and WTA: The triple bagel is very infrequent. In the Open Era, this has occurred five times in the men's singles Grand Slam tournaments so far: In total, taking into account the preliminary rounds of Davis Cup in the Open Era, there have been 17 triple-bagels. In the history of the Grand Slam tournaments in the men's single category, the largest number of 6–0 sets won is the following: At individual majors the players with the most 6–0 sets are: Australian Neale Fraser won at least"
"in parentheses, normally included in printed scorelines but omitted when spoken, indicate the duration of the tiebreaker following a given set. Here, the match winner lost the second-set tiebreaker 7–4 and won the fourth-set tiebreaker 8–6. Because tennis is scored set by set and game by game, a player may lose a match despite winning the majority of points and/or games played. Consider a player who wins six games in each of two sets, all by a score of game–30. The winner has scored 4×12 = 48 points and the loser 2×12 = 24. Suppose also that the loser wins"
"be won by two games sometimes resulted in men's five-set matches lasting over six hours (including an 8-hour 11-minute set at Wimbledon) or, in women's/doubles' three-set matches, lasting over three hours, which is a major disruption to a television schedule. To shorten matches, sets tied at six games each can now be broken by a single tiebreaker game. This is awarded to the first player to score seven points. The winner must lead the loser by two points, so tiebreaker games can become lengthy in their own right. Tiebreakers are not used in major tournaments in the final set, except"
"the experiment was not continued. Nevertheless, this alternative remains as an acceptable alternative in the ITF rules of Tennis. Another alternative set format is seen in [[World Team Tennis]] where the winner of a set is the first to win five games and a nine-point tie-break is played at 4–4. Most singles matches consist of an odd number of sets, the match winner being the player who wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Men's singles and doubles matches may consist of up to five sets (the winner being"
"ranking system, in order to keep the best players in the field from facing each other until as late in the tournament as possible; additionally, if byes are necessary because of a less-than-full bracket, those byes in the first round are usually given to the highest-seeded competitors. A tennis match is composed of points, games, and sets. A set consists of a number of games (a minimum of six), which in turn each consist of points. A set is won by the first side to win 6 games, with a margin of at least 2 games over the other side"
"by sets won, or with the scores of each set given separately. In either case, the match winner's score is stated first. In the former, shorter form, a match might be listed as 3–1 (i.e. three sets to one). In the latter form, this same match might be further described as ""7–5, 6–7, 6–4, 7–6"". (As noted above, an alternate form of writing the tiebreak score lists only the loser's score—e.g., ""7–6"" for the fourth set in the example.) This match was won three sets to one, with the match loser winning the second set on a tiebreaker. The numbers"
"played. In these cases, sets are played indefinitely until one player has a two-game lead, leading to some remarkably long matches. In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the end of the match with the well-known phrase """"Game, set, match"""" followed by the winning person's or team's name. A ""game point"" occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in the game needs only one more point to win the game. The terminology is extended to sets (set point), matches (match point), and even championships (championship point). For example, if the player who is serving has a"
"Sets decided by tiebreakers, however, are typically significantly shorter than extended advantage sets. The set is won by the first player (or team) to have won at least six games and at least two games more than his or her opponent. Traditionally, sets would be played until both these criteria had been met, with no maximum number of games. To shorten matches, [[Jimmy Van Alen|James Van Alen]] created a tie-breaker system, which was widely introduced in the early 1970s. If the score reaches 6–5 (or 5-6), one further game is played. If the leading player wins this game, the set"
"women's final on the second Saturday of the event; therefore a tie-break was more prudent where player rest and scheduling is more important. At a score of 6–6, a set is often determined by one more game called a ""twelve point tiebreaker"". Only one more game is played to determine the winner of the set; the score of the set is always 7–6 (or 6–7). Points are counted using ordinary numbering. The set is decided by the player who wins at least seven points in the tiebreak but also has two points more than his or her opponent. For example,"
"if the score is 6 points to 5 points and the player with 6 points wins the next point, he or she wins the tiebreak and the set. If the player with 5 points wins the point, the tiebreak continues and cannot be won on the next point, since no player will be two points better. In the scoring of the set, sometimes the tiebreak points are included as well as the game count, for example 7–6. Another way of listing the score of the tiebreak is to list only the loser's points. For example, if the set score is"
"that lasted five hours and 12 minutes and took 2 days to complete. In the fifth set the 41-year-old Gonzales won all seven match points that Pasarell had against him, twice coming back from 0–40 deficits. The final score was 22–24, 1–6, 16–14, 6–3, 11–9 for Gonzales. The tiebreaker gave tennis a definite ""finish line"". In 1971, the nine-point tiebreaker was introduced at Wimbledon (the first scoring change at Wimbledon in 94 years). In 1972, Wimbledon put into effect a 12-point tiebreaker when the score in a set reached 8–8 in games unless the set was one in which one"
"than ""tie-break sets"". The [[Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships|2010 Wimbledon first-round match]] between [[John Isner]] and [[Nicolas Mahut]], which is the longest professional tennis match in history, notably ended with Isner winning the fifth set, 70–68. The match lasted in total 11 hours and five minutes with the fifth set alone lasting eight hours, 11 minutes. Nevertheless, even tie-break sets can last a long time. For instance, once players reach 6–6 set score and also reach 6–6 tiebreaker score, play must continue until one player has a 2-point advantage, which can take [[Longest tiebreaker in tennis|a considerable time]]."
"6–0 set in 16 Grand Slam tournaments in a row: starting with the 1957 Australian Championship and ending with the 1960 US championship. In the women's singles, the largest number of 6–0 sets won: 1. Chris Evert (USA) – 106; 2. Margaret Court (Australia) – 89; 3. Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovakia / USA) – 72; 4. Steffi Graf (Germany) – 71; 5. Serena Williams (USA) – 64; 6. Helen Wills-Moody (USA) – 57; 7. Monica Seles (Yugoslavia / USA) – 54; 8. Maria Sharapova (Russia) – 49; 9. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) – 46; 10. Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) – 44. In"
"do not concede a goal. In cricket, a whitewash is when a team wins all the matches played in a series of at least 3 matches. Examples include; The term whitewash is also used in rugby union when one team loses every match in a particular series. The team that comes last in the Six Nations Championship has the ignominy of being awarded the wooden spoon, even if they have not suffered a complete whitewash. In ATP and WTA tennis, the term ""whitewash"" is used when a player fails to win a game in a match (6–0, 6–0, 6–0; or"
"have lasted 12 games (6–0, 6–0) without retirements or defaults. ""Incomplete List"" Since 2005 Shortest tennis match records This article covers records concerning the shortest-ever tennis matches both in terms of number of games and duration in terms of time. Matches affected by a retirement or default are not listed. There have been at least 12 best-of-five-set matches which have lasted 18 games (6–0, 6–0, 6–0) in the Open era. This is the shortest possible length for a best-of-five-set men's singles match without retirements or defaults. In women's tennis, matches featuring a minimum number of games are a more frequent"
"a tiebreak is played even in the deciding set (fifth set for the men, third set for the women) at 6–6, and, starting in 2019, [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]], where a tiebreak will be played if the score reaches 12-12 in the deciding set. A tiebreak is not played in the deciding set in the other two majors – the [[Australian Open]] and the [[French Open]]. (When the tiebreak was first introduced at Wimbledon in 1971, it was invoked at 8–8 rather than 6–6.) The US Open formerly held ""Super Saturday"" where the two men's semi-finals were played along with the"
"a new point. A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving. A game is won by the first player to have won at least four points in total and at least two points more than the opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner peculiar to tennis: scores from zero to three points are described as """"love"""", """"15"""", """"30"""", and """"40"""", respectively. If at least three points have been scored by each player, making the player's scores equal at 40 apiece, the score is not called out as ""40-40"", but"
"over two seasons. Mr. de Schepper did allow Fabian an ""honor point"" by deliberately hitting a ball in the last game out, but he is still generally credited with a golden match. In 1910, the four-time Grand Slam singles winner Hazel Wightman achieved a golden match in which she did not lose a point the entire match. With very weak opponents entering qualifying rounds, the golden set has been recorded more often in recent times. Golden set In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without dropping a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points"
"– it ""can"" actually be over in as few as 7 points. However, because the winning player or team ""must"" win by a margin of at least two points, a ""12-point"" tiebreaker may go beyond 12 points – sometimes [[Longest tiebreaker in tennis|well beyond]]. That is why Van Alen derisively likened it to a ""lingering death"", in contrast to the 9-point (or fewer) ""sudden-death tiebreaker"" that he recommended and preferred. The impetus to use ""some"" kind of a tie-breaking procedure gained force after a monumental 1969 struggle at Wimbledon between [[Pancho Gonzales]] and [[Charlie Pasarell]]. This was a 5-set match"
"shortened from forty-five), in real tennis, six games wins a set, without the need for a two-game buffer as in lawn tennis although some tournaments play up to nine games per set. A match is typically best of three sets, except for the major open tournaments, in which matches are best of five sets for men, and the best of three sets for women. Unlike latex-based technology underlying the modern lawn-tennis ball, the game still uses a cork-based ball very close in design to the original balls used in the game. The diameter balls are handmade and consist of a"
"won the race. In professional tennis, the match goes to the first player to win a predetermined number of sets, usually three or five in professional tournaments. There have been numerous instances of a player being down one or two sets to none, and coming back to win the remaining sets in a row to win the match. It is theoretically possible for a player to come back from a deficit at any point in the game. A notable example of such a comeback in tennis is the 1999 French Open final, between Andre Agassi and Andrei Medvedev, wherein Medvedev"