Shortest tennis match records

• Jack Harper lost just a single point when he defeated J. Sandiford 6–0, 6–0 at the 1946 Surrey Open Hard Court Championships in a match that lasted 18 minutes, the shortest men's singles match on record.[5]
• Francisco Clavet set an ATP tournament record in Shanghai in the first round of the 2001 Heineken Open Shanghai when he defeated Jiang Shan (Li Na's husband) in 25 minutes, 6–0, 6–0.[6]

• The 1881 Wimbledon final in which William Renshaw defeated John Hartley, 6–0, 6–1, 6–1, lasted 36 minutes.[7]
• Fred Perry defeated Gottfried von Cramm, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0, in the 1936 Wimbledon final in 40 minutes.[8]
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Bernard Tomic in the first round in the 2019 Wimbledon Championships 6–2, 6–1, 6–4 in 58 minutes, though Tomic was later fined for a lack of effort.[9]

• Jarkko Nieminen won against Bernard Tomic at the Miami Masters in 2014 in 28 minutes, 6–0, 6–1.[10]

• John Millman became the first player in Olympic tennis history to win a match by the scoreline of 6–0, 6–0 when he defeated Ričardas Berankis in the first round of the tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[11]

• Margaret Court won the 1963 Eastern Grass Court Championships crown in a record 24-minute match against Darlene Hard, 6–1, 6–1.[12]
• Helen Wills defeated Joan Fry at the 1927 Wightman Cup 6–2, 6–0 in 24 minutes.[13]
• Helen Wills, while dispatching Emily Wright 6–0, 6–0 in Beaulieu, France in 1926, won the first set in 9 minutes.[14]

• Steffi Graf won 6–0, 6–0, against Natasha Zvereva in the 1988 French Open final. The official time of the match given on the scoresheet was 34 minutes,[15][16][17] but the match consumed just 32 minutes of playing time,[1] split into two periods of nine and 23 minutes because of a rain break. It is the only "double bagel" Grand Slam singles final of the Open Era, and only the second time in the history of tennis (the other being at 1911 Wimbledon).[18]

• During the 1969 tournament, Sue Tutt beat Marion Boundy 6–2, 6–0 in 20 minutes.[19]
• In the 1922 Wimbledon final Suzanne Lenglen defeated Molla Mallory, 6–2, 6–0, in 23 minutes. Some accounts state that the match was over in 20 minutes.[20]
• In the 1925 Wimbledon final Lenglen defeated Joan Fry in 25 minutes, 6–2, 6–0.[20]

There have been at least 17 best-of-five-set matches which have lasted 18 games (6–0, 6–0, 6–0), colloquially referred to as a "triple bagel", in the Open Era.[21] This is the shortest possible length for a best-of-five-set match, not including retirements or defaults.

Year	Grand Slam	Round	Winner	Loser
1968	French Open	1R	Nikola Špear	Daniel Contet
1973	Davis Cup	Z1	Gondo Widjojo	Tao Po
1981	Davis Cup	PO	Thierry Tulasne	Shinichi Sakamoto
1984	Davis Cup	1R	Emilio Sanchez	Kamel Harrad
1987	French Open	2R	Karel Nováček	Eduardo Bengoechea
1987	Wimbledon	1R	Stefan Edberg	Stefan Eriksson
1987	US Open	1R	Ivan Lendl	Barry Moir
1989	Davis Cup	3R	Hamed-ul-Haq	Faisal Rahman
1991	Davis Cup	1R	Michael Walker	Dishan Herath
1993	French Open	2R	Sergi Bruguera	Thierry Champion
1998	Davis Cup	2R	Gouichi Motomura	Teo Susnjak
1999	Davis Cup	PO	Lin Bing-Chao	Nasser Al-Khelaifi
2001	Wimbledon	Q3	Todd Woodbridge	Johan Örtegren
2005	Davis Cup	2R	Ricardo Mello	David Josepa
2009	Davis Cup	PO	Rui Machado	Valentin Rahine
2011	Davis Cup	2R	Andy Murray	Laurent Bram
2016	Davis Cup	1R	Jarkko Nieminen	Courtney John Lock
2016	Davis Cup	1R	Emilio Gómez	Adam Hornby

In women's tennis, matches featuring a minimum number of games are a more frequent occurrence. The following are women's Grand Slam singles matches which have lasted 12 games (6–0, 6–0), colloquially referred to as a "double bagel", in the Open Era. This is the shortest possible length for a best-of-three-set match, not including retirements or defaults.