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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

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · Sep 6

🎾US Open 2025🎾
Madison Keys is the 1st female player to win a Grand Slam title (Australian Open) and become a Grand Slam wooden spoon (US Open) in the same year since Chris O'Neil in 1978 (wooden spoon at Roland Garros, title at the Australian Open)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 1d

🎾Brussels 2025🎾
Sebastian Baez won only 1 of his last 13 matches (Challenger/ATP) against top-100 players: 1-12 since the start of Madrid (0-6 on clay, 1-5 on hard, 0-1 on grass). Baez defeated David Goffin in Round 1 of Cincinnati; his other 3 wins were against players outside the top 100 (3-2)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 2d

🎾WTA 2025🎾
Iga Swiatek (28-9) was the player with the most main draw match wins in WTA 1000 tournaments in 2025 (despite only 1 title), only 1 win ahead of Aryna Sabalenka (27-6) and Coco Gauff (27-9), and 2 ahead of Jasmine Paolini (26-9)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 2d

It's all fairly similar: Fonseca will play his 22nd ATP tournament (without NextGen Finals), Alcaraz was first seeded in his 12th ATP tournament, Auger-Aliassime in his 18th - to name a few recent others: Rune/Mensik 25th, Sinner 22nd, Shapovalov 20th, Musetti 14th, Fils also 12th (all were also 19)

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 2d

🎾Brussels 2025🎾
Joao Fonseca (19y54d) will be seeded at an ATP tournament for the 1st time (outside the NextGen Finals), but will be 1 day older than Holger Rune when he made his ATP debut as a seed (Eastbourne 2022) -players such as Carlos Alcaraz and Felix Auger-Aliassime were first seeded aged 18

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾WTA 2025🎾
WTA 1000 wooden spoons in 2025:
Doha: Katie Volynets
Dubai: Aoi Ito
Indian Wells: Olga Danilovic
Miami: Anhelina Kalinina
Madrid: Carlota Martinez Cirez
Rome: Tyra Caterina Grant
Canada: Emiliana Arango
Cincinnati: Maddison Inglis
Beijing: Anna Kalinskaya
Wuhan: Leylah Fernandez

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Osaka 2025🎾
Naomi Osaka will be the top seed in a WTA tournament for the 1st time since Melbourne 2022, where she withdrew before the semifinals.

Before Melbourne 2022, Osaka's last tournament as top seed was Osaka 2019, where Osaka won the title

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾WTA 2025🎾
WTA 1000 champions in 2025:
Doha: Amanda Anisimova
Dubai: Mirra Andreeva
Indian Wells: Mirra Andreeva
Miami: Aryna Sabalenka
Madrid: Aryna Sabalenka
Rome: Jasmine Paolini
Canada: Victoria Mboko
Cincinnati: Iga Swiatek
Beijing: Amanda Anisimova
Wuhan: Coco Gauff

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Wuhan 2025🎾
Coco Gauff wins her 3rd WTA 1000 title, after Cincinnati 2023 and Beijing 2024 (defeated Karolina Muchova in both finals). Gauff and runner-up Jessica Pegula were the 2 players in the current WTA top 6 not to have won a 1000 title in 2025 (Gauff lost in the final of Madrid and Rome)

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Wuhan 2025🎾
Coco Gauff won 5 of her last 6 WTA matches against other players representing the United States (5-1 since Miami), only losing to Beijing champion Amanda Anisimova in Beijing

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Karen Khachanov is the 2nd ATP top-10 player to become the wooden spoon of a Masters tournament in 2025, after Novak Djokovic at Monte Carlo.

Khachanov is already the 3rd seeded player in the last 5 ATP tournaments (since US Open) to become a wooden spoon

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
French ATP players have won only 1 of their last 10 finals of Masters tournaments, since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the Paris Masters in 2008 (1-9): only Tsonga himself at Canada 2014. The last French player outside Tsonga to win a Masters title was Sebastien Grosjean at Paris 2001

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Valentin Vacherot is the 3rd qualifier to win an ATP Masters title, after Roberto Carretero at Hamburg 1996 and Albert Portas at Hamburg 2001

Vacherot is the 3rd qualifier to win an ATP title in 2025, after Jenson Brooksby (Houston) and Alejandro Tabilo (Chengdu)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Valentin Vacherot wins his 5th title on Challenger level or above, and all 5 in Asia, after Challengers in Nonthaburi (2 in 2024, 1 in 2022) and Pune (2024), and now the Shanghai Masters (5-0 in finals).

Vacherot lost his only previous final in Challenger or ATP outside Asia (0-1)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 3d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
With #205 Valentin Vacherot winning the Shanghai title, ATP players outside the top 100 have won more finals of Grand Slams/Masters tournaments than they have lost: 5-4 (Grand Slams since the ranking was introduced in August 1973, Masters since Masters were introduced in 1990)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 4d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
The Shanghai final between Arthur Rinderknech and Valentin Vacherot will be the 1st ATP Masters final between unseeded players since Tim Henman defeated Andrei Pavel at Paris 2003, and the 1st without top-50 players since Roberto Carretero defeated Alex Corretja at Hamburg 1996

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 4d

🎾Wuhan 2025🎾
The Wuhan final between Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff is the 1st all-American final of a WTA 1000 since Jessica Pegula defeated Amanda Anisimova at Canada 2024, despite WTA players representing the United States reaching the final in 7 of the 12 finals of 1000 tournaments since then

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 4d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Novak Djokovic faced an opponent representing Monaco for the 1st time in ATP main draws (59th different country to face Djokovic in an ATP main draw), but had defeated Jean-Rene Lisnard in qualifying of Rotterdam 2006 (also Paris 2005 qualifying but Lisnard represented France there)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 4d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Valetin Vacherot is the 1st qualifier/lucky loser into the final of an ATP Masters tournament since Jan-Lennard Struff at Madrid 2023 (890 days). It was the shortest gap between qualifiers/lucky losers reaching ATP Masters finals since 686 days between Stuttgart 2005 and Miami 2007

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 4d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
With Valentin Vacherot in the Shanghai final, China (Shanghai) is the only country left that has hosted an ATP Grand Slam/Masters tournament without any Grand Slam/Masters finalists - Australia, United States, Monaco, Spain, Italy, France, Great Britain, Canada, Germany and Sweden

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 4d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
#204 Valentin Vacherot is the 2nd ATP player outside the top 200 to reach the final of a Grand Slam/Masters tournament, after #212 Mark Edmondson at Australian Open 1976 (won the title) - the lowest-ranked finalist in a Masters tournament was #191 Andrei Pavel (lost to Tim Henman)

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 5d

🎾Wuhan 2025🎾
Aryna Sabalenka (20-0 since 2018) is the 1st player to win her first 20 matches in a single WTA event since Caroline Wozniacki in New Haven (won her first 20 in 2008-2012).

With Iga Swiatek (was 2-0) losing against Jasmine Paolini, Sabalenka is the only WTA player undefeated in Wuhan

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 5d

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Miami, Monte Carlo and Canada were the only 3 Grand Slams/Masters tournaments in 2025 without any unseeded French ATP players in Round 3 (including Rinderknech at Wimbledon, Cincinnati, US Open, Shanghai), but only Atmane (Cincinnati) and Rinderknech (Shanghai) reached the semifinals

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 5d

🎾Wuhan 2025🎾
Ekaterina Alexandrova will be the 48th WTA player since the start of 2014 to make her top-10 debut, and the 3rd in 2025 (Mirra Andreeva, Amanda Anisimova).

33 ATP players made their top-10 debuts in those 12 seasons, with 4 in 2025: Tommy Paul, Jack Draper, Lorenzo Musetti, Ben Shelton

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 6d

Among the last few qualifiers in an ATP Masters semifinal, Auger-Aliassime is the only one to have remained high-ranked after a year; Dolgopolov, Krajinovic, and Karatsev never reached top 20 after their runs (Karatsev did before his run) - most of them also suffered from injuries in the year after

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 6d

Among players who had their first ATP semifinal in a Masters, Haas and Shapovalov (both about 1.5 years) and J-M Gambill (3 years) reached the top 20(!) years after their breakthrough run, Janowicz reached his career-high when his points were about to drop from Paris 2012; Levy and Labadze never did