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. A rare type of bagel, where no point is lost, is called a Golden Set. Often, bagel sets occur in the early rounds of tennis tournaments where the favorites meet with lower ranked players such as a lucky loser or those who received 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.

Statistics of the men's singles Grand Slam tournaments from 2000 to 2016 are as follows: at Wimbledon (grass surface), 127 bagels were made; at French Open (clay surface), 267; at the US Open Tennis Championship (hard surface), 275, and at the Australian Open (hard surface), 238.. Björn Borg (five-time Wimbledon champion and six-time French Open champion) recorded 20 6–0 sets at the French Open, and only 5 at Wimbledon.

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 last such event occurred in 2013 at the time when Novak Djokovic defeated the Marcel Granollers 6–3, 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:

For women in Grand Slam tournaments, a double bagel result is possible as the matches are best of three sets. In the "Open Era", not a single Grand Slam tournament match ended with a double bagel in 1968 and 2005. The most double bagels were in the seasons of 1974 and 1993, when eight matches had a result of 6–0, 6–0.

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