Bagel (tennis)
In tennis, a bagel is when the set ends with a score of 6–0. 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 special Golden Bagel Award was handed out to the male player who dealt the most bagels to his opponents.
Surface disparity
Statistics of the men's singles Grand Slam tournaments from 2000 to 2016 are as follows: at Wimbledon, 127 bagels were made; at French Open, 267; at the US Open Tennis Championship, 275, and at the Australian Open, 238.. Björn Borg recorded 20 6–0 sets at the French Open, and only 5 at Wimbledon.Double bagel
Men's singles
Grand Slam matches in the men's singles category are best of five sets. Thus, a kind of "inner double bagel" is possible, when a tennis player wins two consecutive 6–0 sets in a single match. The most recent occurrence is in 2018 when Gaël Monfils defeated Facundo Bagnis 7–6, 3–6, 6–0, 6–0.In the 1970s, first round matches at the French Open and US Open were only best of three sets. There are 3 cases of a double bagel Grand Slam victory:
- 1974 Raúl Ramírez def. V. Franchitti
- 1975 Guillermo Vilas def. Hans-Joachim Plötz
- 1977 Ilie Nastase def. Frew McMillan
Women's singles
The following players had at least five double-bagels in Grand Slam singles events: Suzanne Lenglen, Margaret Court – 14; Chris Evert – 13; Helen Wills Moody – 10; Steffi Graf – 7; Kim Clijsters, Mary Pierce – 6 each; Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova – on 5.
Between No. 1 ranked players
There are six cases when double-bagels ended with matches played by two tennis players who at different times were ranked No. 1 in the ATP and WTA:- 1981 Chris Evert def. Martina Navratilova in the final.
- 1982 Chris Evert def. Tracy Austin
- 1984 Ivan Lendl def. Jimmy Connors. In the previous match between these players in the tournament in Rotterdam with a score in favor of Lendl 6–0, 1–0, Connors refused to continue the game.
- 2001 Martina Hingis def. Monica Seles. Hingis went on to win the title.
- 2005 Lindsay Davenport def. Maria Sharapova
- 2011 Kim Clijsters def. Dinara Safina. Clijsters went on to win the title.
Triple bagel
- 1968 Nikola Špear def. Daniel Contet
- 1987 Karel Nováček def. Eduardo Bengoechea
- 1987 Stefan Edberg def. Stefan Eriksson
- 1987 Ivan Lendl def. Barry Moir. Lendl went on to win the title.
- 1993 Sergi Bruguera def. Thierry Champion. Bruguera also went on to win the title.
Records
In Grand Slams
Men's singles
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:| # | Player | Nationality | Bagels |
| 1. | Andre Agassi |  United States | 50 |
| 2. | Roy Emerson |  Australia | 47 |
| 2. | Roger Federer |  Switzerland | 47 |
| 4. | Jimmy Connors | United States | 44 |
| 5. | Ivan Lendl |  Czechoslovakia / United States | 42 |
| 6. | John Bromwich | Australia | 41 |
| 7. | Bill Tilden | United States | 40 |
| 8. | Rene Lacoste |  France | 35 |
| 8. | Björn Borg |  Sweden | 35 |
| 8. | Rafael Nadal |  Spain | 35 |
At individual majors the players with the most 6–0 sets are:
- Australian Championship: 1. R. Federer – 17; 2. Jack Crawford – 16; 3. A. Agassi – 15.
- French Open: 1–2. B. Borg, G. Vilas – 20 each; 3–5. Jaroslav Drobný, R. Lacoste, R. Nadal – 17 each.
- Wimbledon: 1. R. Emerson – 15; 2–3. J. Connors, B. Tilden – to 12.
- US Championship: 1. J. Connors – 22; 2–3. I. Lendl, B. Tilden – 20 each.
Women's singles
In the women's singles, the largest number of 6–0 sets won:1. Chris Evert – 106;
2. Margaret Court – 89;
3. Martina Navratilova – 72;
4. Steffi Graf – 71;
5. Serena Williams – 64;
6. Helen Wills-Moody – 57;
7. Monica Seles – 54;
8. Maria Sharapova – 49;
9. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – 46;
10. Gabriela Sabatini – 44.
In individual tournaments of the Grand Slam, the largest number of 6–0 sets won is:
- Australian Championship: 1. M. Court – 25; 2. M. Sharapova – 16; 3. S. Williams – 14.
- French Open: 1. C. Evert – 26; 2. A. Sanchez – 22; 3. G. Sabatini – 21.
- Wimbledon: 1–2. Suzanne Lenglen, C. Evert – to 29; 3. M. Court – 25.
- US Championship: 1. C. Evert – 43; H. Wills-Moody – 31; 3. M. Court – 27.
In career
Men
Bagels| # | Player | Nationality | Bagels |
| 1. | Bill Tilden | United States | 479 |
| 2. | Josiah Ritchie |  Great Britain | 464 |
| 3. | Anthony Wilding |  New Zealand | 280 |
| 4. | Frank Parker | United States | 266 |
| 5. | Jaroslav Drobny | Czechoslovakia | 245 |
| 6. | Roy Emerson | Australia | 224 |
| 7. | Ken Rosewall | Australia | 216 |
| 8. | John Bromwich | Australia | 209 |
| 9. | Jimmy Connors | United States | 197 |
| 10. | Gardnar Mulloy | United States | 186 |
Double Bagels
| # | Player | Nationality | Double Bagels |
| 1. | Bill Tilden | United States | 106 |
| 2. | Josiah Ritchie | Great Britain | 87 |
| 3. | Anthony Wilding | New Zealand | 51 |
| 4. | John Bromwich | Australia | 42 |
| 5. | Frank Parker | United States | 37 |
| 6. | Jaroslav Drobny | Czechoslovakia | 32 |
| 7. | George Worthington | Australia | 25 |
| 8. | Wayne Sabin | United States | 24 |
Triple Bagels
| # | Player | Nationality | Triple Bagels |
| 1. | Bill Tilden | United States | 11 |
| 2. | Karel Kozeluh | Czechoslovakia | 5 |
| 3. | Arthur Gore | Great Britain | 4 |
| 3. | Josiah Ritchie | Great Britain | 4 |
| 3. | Harry Parker | New Zealand | 4 |
| 3. | Gordon Lowe | Great Britain | 4 |
| 3. | Bob Hewitt |  South Africa | 4 |
Trivia
- In 1948 Don Budge won the first match against George Hudson 6–0, 6–0, 6–0 at the US Professional Championship, and against Jerome Adler 6–0, 6–0, 6–1 in the second round.
- In 1969, in the second round of Wimbledon, top seed Rod Laver began with the loss of the first two sets to the unseeded Indian Premjit Lall. However, the game ended in his favor with a score of 3–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–0, 6–0.
- There are 4 cases in the history of tennis, when the winner of the match lost 2 bagel sets:
- * 1935 Bill Tilden – Karel Koželuh 0–6, 6–1, 6–4, 0–6, 6–4
- * 1962 Rod Laver – Neale Fraser 7–5, 0–6, 0–6, 6–1, 6–2
- * 1969 Stanley Matthews – Ilie Nastase 6–3, 0–6, 0–6, 6–4, 8–6
- * 1969 Dennis Ralston – Patricio Rodríguez 6–2, 6–4, 0–6, 0–6, 6–4
- In 1981, in the first round of the US championship Jimmy Connors, who in the mid-70s almost married Chris Evert, beat her then-husband John Lloyd with a score of 6–0, 6–0, 6–2.
- Suzanne Lenglen won 9 tournaments in which she did not lose a single game in all matches.
- Guillermo Vilas won 2 matches with a score of 6–0, 6–0 in 2 consecutive seasons.
- Björn Borg won 116 6–0 sets during his career
- Two women's finals in the history of the Grand Slam tournaments have ended with a double-bagel:
- * 1911 Dorothea Lambert-Chambers – Dora Boothby 6–0, 6–0
- * 1988 Steffi Graf – Natasha Zvereva 6–0, 6–0
- Swiss tennis player Martina Hingis achieved her first Olympic bagel in singles in 1996, and the second in pairs twenty years later.