Trivial Tennis Trivia
Posting underappreciated and unknown ATP/WTA stats, all in singles.
ATP = main draws 250/500/1000/Slams + Davis Cup
WTA = main draws 250/500/1000/Slams
- 🎾ATP 2026🎾 Yosuke Watanuki's win over Sebastian Ofner in the Davis Cup was Japan's first ATP win in 2026 (after a 0-5 start), every represented country with at least 3 ATP matches has now won at least once on tour-level (Israel, Peru, Slovenia, and Tunisia all on 0-2)
- 🎾Ostrava 2026🎾 Katie Volynets defeats top seed Tatjana Maria for her 1st win over a seeded opponent since defeating Marta Kostyuk at Beijing 2024 Volynets was 1 of 2 current top-100 players with at least 3 WTA matches against seeds in 2025 (0-8) without winning at least once (Julia Grabher on 0-6)
- 🎾Montpellier 2026🎾 Hubert Hurkacz won 5 of his last 11 ATP matches against American players (5-6 since the start of grass in 2024), but all 5 wins were against Marcos Giron (3) and Taylor Fritz (2) - losses to Frances Tiafoe, Alex Michelsen, Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Ethan Quinn, and Martin Damm
- 🎾Abu Dhabi 2026🎾 Hailey Baptiste has won 4 WTA matches against top-20 players (4-17) - #17 Madison Keys at Washington 2019, #10 Barbora Krejcikova at Wuhan 2024, #12 Daria Kasatkina at Miami 2025, and #17 Emma Navarro at Abu Dhabi 2026 - 3 of the 4 wins were when Baptiste entered as a wildcard
- 🎾Montpellier 2026🎾 Adrian Mannarino wins his first match since defeating Matteo Berrettini in round 1 of Shanghai 2025 (0-8 since, on all levels). Mannarino lost in the opening rounds of Hong Kong, Auckland, the Australian Open, and Quimper Challenger in 2026
- 🎾Abu Dhabi 2026🎾 Janice Tjen has won all of her 3 WTA matches against players ranked inside the top 29 (#23 Leylah Fernandez at the Australian Open, #25 Veronika Kudermetova at the US Open, #29 Maya Joint in Abu Dhabi), but has lost all 4 of her matches against players ranked between 30 and 60 (0-4)
- 🎾Abu Dhabi 2026🎾 Simona Waltert defeats a WTA top-100 player for the 1st time since a win against #69 Renata Zarazua at a WTA 125 in Parma in May 2025, and defeats a top-100 player at a tour-level event for the 1st time since #92 Tamara Zidansek at Parma 2022 (when it was still a 250, 0-10 since)
- 🎾Abu Dhabi 2026🎾 Paula Badosa has lost 4 of her 7 WTA matches against lucky losers since the start of 2024 (3-4, including 1 retirement win): against Bernarda Pera at Adelaide 2024, Ashlyn Krueger at Adelaide 2025, Marie Bouzkova at Adelaide 2026, and Aliaksandra Sasnovich at Abu Dhabi 2026
- 🎾WTA 2026🎾 Tatjana Maria (Ostrava) is the top seed at a WTA event for the 3rd time in her career, after Florianopolis 2015 (lost in round 2) and Bogota 2018 (lost in round 2) Emma Raducanu (Cluj-Napoca) will join Aryna Sabalenka as the 2 WTA players who have been the top seed multiple times in 2026
- 🎾WTA 2026🎾 Elina Svitolina returns to the WTA top 10 for the 1st time since 1 November 2021, when Iga Swiatek replaced Svitolina to start her 1st of currently 222 consecutive weeks inside the top 10 - only Aryna Sabalenka (272 weeks since 16 November 2020) has a longer active run in the top 10
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Winning the title at the Australian Open, the only tournaments Carlos Alcaraz has played multiple times without ever winning the title are the Paris Masters (quarterfinals in 2022), the Shanghai Masters (quarterfinals in 2024), and the Canada Masters (quarterfinals in 2023)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Novak Djokovic losing the Australian Open final for the 1st time (was 10-0), he has only played at least 4 finals in Beijing (6-0) without ever losing one
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz is the first male player (all-time) to complete his 1st career Grand Slam at the Australian Open - of the previous 8 players with a career Grand Slam, 5 had to wait for Roland Garros, 1 waited the longest for Wimbledon, and 2 completed it at the US Open
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz is the 2nd Australian Open singles champion representing Spain (all-time), after Rafael Nadal in 2009 and 2022 - Spanish players are now 3-10 in Australian Open finals (across 8 different players)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz (22) is the youngest male player to collect a career Grand Slam (winning all 4 Grand Slams), surpassing the all-time record of Don Budge in 1938 (22) and the Open Era record of Rafael Nadal in 2010 (24)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Aryna Sabalenka is the 1st player to lose the women's singles final at the Australian Open in consecutive editions (2025 to Madison Keys, 2026 to Elena Rybakina) since Martina Hingis in 2000 (to Lindsay Davenport), 2001 (to Jennifer Capriati), and 2002 (to Capriati)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Elena Rybakina defeating Aryna Sabalenka in the Australian Open final, Rybakina has only played Madison Keys (0-2) and Fiona Ferro (0-2) multiple times at Grand Slams without winning at least once
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elena Rybakina won 9 of her 15 WTA matches against the leader of the WTA rankings (9-6), including 4-1 against Iga Swiatek and 5-3 against Aryna Sabalenka while they were the world #1
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elena Rybakina (Wimbledon 2022, Australian Open 2026) is the 3rd player to win multiple Grand Slam women's singles titles while representing an Asian country, after Naomi Osaka (4; Australian Open twice, US Open twice) and Li Na (Roland Garros 2011, Australian Open 2014)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 And for my final match preview for the Australian Open 2026, you can read my stats-based match preview for the men's final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic on docs.google.com/document/d/1... if you're interested in stats and storylines!
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Novak Djokovic breaks Jannik Sinner's 20-match ATP winning streak (since the US Open final) and his 19-match winning streak at the Australian Open (since round 4 in 2023), and extends his own winning run to 9 (the longest active winning streak on the ATP Tour)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Novak Djokovic is the 5th player in the Open Era (male or female) to reach more than 10 finals at a single Grand Slam (11), after Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros (14), Roger Federer at Wimbledon (12), Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon (12), and Serena Williams at Wimbledon (11)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 4th seed Novak Djokovic is the first player outside the top-2 seeds to reach a men's Grand Slam final since 12th seed Taylor Fritz at the US Open in 2024 (lost to Jannik Sinner)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Novak Djokovic (38) is the 2nd player in the Open Era (male or female) to reach a Grand Slam final aged 38 or older, after Ken Rosewall at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1974 (39)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Carlos Alcaraz defeating Alexander Zverev in the Australian Open semifinals, Daniil Medvedev (8-1) will be the ATP win leader over 2026 following the Australian Open, ahead of Sebastian Baez and Jakub Mensik on 8-2
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz is the 4th Spanish male player (Open Era) to reach the Australian Open final, after Andres Gimeno (1969), Carlos Moya (1997), and Rafael Nadal (6 times). Of the previous 3 players, only Gimeno (31) was older than Alcaraz (22) for his first Australian Open final
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Carlos Alcaraz reaching the final at the Australian Open, the Paris Masters is the only ATP tournament he has played at least 3 times without ever making the final (quarterfinals in 2022)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 You can read my stats-based match preview for the women's final of the Australian Open 2026 between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina on docs.google.com/document/d/1... if you're interested in tennis and stats (or both!)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elena Rybakina won each of her last 9 WTA matches against top-10 opponents, since a loss to Aryna Sabalenka in the Wuhan quarterfinals. Rybakina is also 17-3 in her last 20 WTA matches against seeded opponents (since Washington 2025 in July)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elena Rybakina has reached the final in multiple editions of a single tournament for the 3rd time (2023, 2026), after Miami (2023, 2024) and Strasbourg (2020, 2025)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Aryna Sabalenka has reached the final in each of her last 8 tournaments held in Australia, since a loss to Kaia Kanepi in round 4 of the Australian Open in 2022
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Aryna Sabalenka is the 3rd player to reach the women's final in at least 4 consecutive editions of the Australian Open, after Evonne Goolagong Cawley (6 from 1971 to 1976) and Martina Hingis (6 from 1997 to 2002)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 And of course, there are also my match previews for the first Grand Slam men's semifinals between all top-4 seeds in 13 years (since Australian Open 2013), now available on docs.google.com/document/d/1... for those interested in tennis and stats!
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 All men's top-4 seeds will reach the semifinals for the 1st time at any Grand Slam since Roland Garros 2017 (Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Dominic Thiem) and for the 1st time at the Australian Open since 2013 (Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, David Ferrer)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Jannik Sinner won his last 12 ATP matches against top-10 opponents, setting the longest winning streak of his career against such opponents (previously 11 from Shanghai 2024 to Rome 2025)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Jannik Sinner is the 1st Italian player in the Open Era (man or woman) to reach the semifinals in at least 3 consecutive editions of a single Grand Slam, after Adriano Panatta, Sara Errani, Flavia Pennetta, and Sinner himself all had runs of 2
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Novak Djokovic's retirement win against Lorenzo Musetti means that he has the standalone record of most match wins at the Australian Open (103-10), only Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros (112-4) and Roger Federer at Wimbledon (105-14) have more wins at any single Grand Slam
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Novak Djokovic (38) is the 2nd-oldest male player in the Open Era to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open, after Ken Rosewall in 1976-1977 (41 and 42 years old) - and the 4th-oldest at any Grand Slam, after Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, and Jimmy Connors
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 123 of the 126 matches of the women's draw of the Australian Open 2026 completed (and a walkover), only 3 to go, of which 2 in the semifinals - therefore, here my stats-based match previews for the women's semifinals of the Australian Open: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 All 4 semifinalists in the women's draw of the Australian Open 2026 won all their 5 matches in the tournament in straight sets, none of the 4 players (Aryna Sabalenka, Elina Svitolina, Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina) dropped a single set
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 The Australian Open is the 2nd tournament in which Jessica Pegula has won at least 20 matches (20-6), after the US Open (23-9) Pegula only has a better win percentage at the Canada Masters (85.7% combined, up to 88.9% in Toronto) than at the Australian Open (20-6, 76.9%)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Jessica Pegula has reached a semifinal outside the US Open for the 1st time, after she lost her previous 5 quarterfinal matches at the Australian Open (2021, 2022, 2023), Roland Garros (2022), and Wimbledon (2023)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elena Rybakina only has more WTA main draw match wins against Elise Mertens (7-1) than against Iga Swiatek (6-6, also 6 wins against Aryna Sabalenka)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elena Rybakina has won her last 8 WTA matches against top-10 opponents, doubling her previous longest winning streak against top 10: 4 from March to May 2023
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz reaches the semifinals of the Australian Open for the 1st time, with now the Paris Masters (quarterfinals in 2022) as the only tour-level tournament he played at least 3 times without ever reaching the semifinals (or even the final)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz has defeated a top-10 opponent for the 1st time at the Australian Open (was 0-3), it was the only tournament in which Alcaraz had faced multiple top-10 players without winning at least once
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Alexander Zverev has won 6 of his 7 ATP matches in 2026 (6-1), with his only loss against the lowest-ranked opponent he played this season: against #72 Hubert Hurkacz (all 6 wins against top-60 players)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Alexander Zverev is the 2nd German player (male/female, including East and West Germany) to have reached at least 4 semifinals at the Australian Open (2020, 2024, 2025, 2026), after Steffi Graf (1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elina Svitolina wins multiple matches against top-10 opponents in a single tournament (Mirra Andreeva, Coco Gauff at the Australian Open 2026) for the 1st time since the WTA Finals in 2019 (Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep, and Belinda Bencic)
- 🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elina Svitolina reaches the semifinals of the Australian Open for the 1st time, after having reached the quarterfinals for the 4th time (was 0-3 in Australian Open quarterfinals) The Australian Open is now also the tournament in which Svitolina has the most match wins (34-12)
