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Double fault (tennis)

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In tennis, if the serving player makes two mistakes in the same point, it is called a double fault, and they lose the point and the point is awarded to their opponent.[1]

Amateur Era singles records

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Gerald Patterson allegedly holds the record for the most double faults committed in a Grand Slam final: he committed 27 double faults in a 71-game match against John Hawkes in the 1927 Australian Championships, but still managed to clinch the victory.[2]

At the 1957 Wimbledon Championships, Maria de Amorin committed 17 double faults in a row in her second-round encounter against Berna Thung. De Amorin took a set off her opponent, but eventually lost the match.[3]

Open Era singles records

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Double faults have been officially recorded by the top-level professional tennis circuits since 1991.[4]

Only main draw singles matches are included here.

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

ATP Tour

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Alexander Bublik is one of only three players to have committed more than 25 double faults in a Grand Slam match.

Among all players, active or retired, the worst average of double faults per match, shared between Henrik Holm and Radomír Vašek, is 7.2, while Gilbert Schaller has the best average, at 1.0.[5]

Most double faults in a match

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# Player W/L Opponent Round Event Sets Surface Ref.
30 Switzerland Marc Rosset L France Arnaud Clément QF 2001 Davis Cup 5 Carpet (i) [6]
27 Croatia Goran Ivanišević L India Leander Paes PO 1995 Davis Cup 5 Grass [7]
26 Switzerland Marc Rosset L United States Michael Joyce 1R 1995 Wimbledon 4 Grass [8]
Kazakhstan Alexander Bublik W Italy Thomas Fabbiano 2R 2019 US Open 5 Hard [9]
France Pierre-Hugues Herbert L Spain Pablo Andújar 1R 2021 Wimbledon 5 Grass [10]

Most double faults in a three-setter

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# Player W/L Opponent Round Event Surface Ref.
25 United States Maxime Cressy L Canada Felix Auger-Aliassime 1R 2023 Dubai Hard [11]

Most double faults in a two-setter

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# Player W/L Opponent Round Event Surface Ref.
16 Argentina Guillermo Coria L Italy Alessio di Mauro 1R 2006 Acapulco Clay [12]

Most consecutive double faults

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# Player W/L Opponent Round Event Surface Ref.
5 United Kingdom Greg Rusedski W Russia Mikhail Youzhny 1R 2006 Miami Hard [13]

Committing four consecutive double faults in a single game

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Player W/L Opponent Round Event Surface Ref.
Germany Boris Becker W France Jean-Philippe Fleurian SF 1995 Hopman Cup Hard [14]
France Cédric Pioline L Belarus Vladimir Voltchkov 2R 2000 Wimbledon Grass [15]
Argentina Guillermo Coria W Germany Nicolas Kiefer 3R 2006 Monte Carlo Clay [16]
Spain Fernando Verdasco L Russia Teymuraz Gabashvili 2R 2014 Australian Open Hard [17]
Germany Mischa Zverev L Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov 2R 2017 Montreal Hard [18]
France Benoît Paire L Italy Fabio Fognini RR 2021 ATP Cup Hard [19]
United States Maxime Cressy W France Geoffrey Blancaneaux 1R 2023 Marseille Hard (i) [20]

WTA Tour

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Anna Kournikova holds the record for the most double faults in a match with 31, in a clash against Miho Saeki that has been labeled as "one of most feeble and unintentionally comical matches of all time".[21]

Most double faults in a match

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# Player W/L Opponent Round Event Sets Surface Ref.
31 Russia Anna Kournikova W Japan Miho Saeki 2R 1999 Australian Open 3 Hard [22]
28 Italy Raffaella Reggi L Canada Helen Kelesi QF 1988 Rome 2 Clay [23][24]
Australia Jelena Dokic L Germany Julia Schruff 1R 2006 Auckland 3 Hard [25]
27 Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova L Kazakhstan Galina Voskoboeva QF 2011 Baku 3 Hard [26]
21 United States Coco Gauff L Russia Aryna Sabalenka SF 2024 Wuhan 3 Hard [27]

Most double faults in a game

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# Player W/L Opponent Round Event Sets Surface Ref.
7 Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko W United States Alison Riske 2R 2019 US Open 2 Hard [28]
China Zheng Qinwen W United States Ashlyn Krueger 1R 2024 Australian Open 3 Hard [29]
6 United States Danielle Collins L Tunisia Ons Jabeur 3R 2021 Indian Wells 2 Hard [30]
Belarus Aryna Sabalenka W China Xinyu Wang 2R 2022 Australian Open 2 Hard [31]

See also

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References

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