This article covers records concerning the shortest ever tennis matches both in terms of number of games and duration in terms of time. Matches affected by a retirement or default are not listed.
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.Francisco Clavet set an ATP tournament record for Shanghai in the first round of the 2001 Shanghai Rolex Masters when he defeated Jiang Shan (Li Na's husband) in 25 minutes, 6–0, 6–0.Jarkko Nieminen stormed to victory over Bernard Tomic at the Miami Masters in 2014 in 28 minutes (6–0, 6–1). Grand Slams
Wimbledon
The 1881 Wimbledon final in which William Renshaw defeated John Hartley, 6–0, 6–1, 6–1, lasted 36 minutes.Fred Perry defeated Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0, in the 1936 Wimbledon final in 40 minutes.Margaret Court won the 1963 Eastern Grass Court Championships crown in a record 24-minute match.Helen Wills defeated Joan Fry at the 1927 Wightman Cup 6–2, 6–0 in 24 minutes.Helen Wills, while dispatching Emily Wright 6-0, 6–0 in Beaulieu, France in 1926, won the first set in 9 minutes.Grand Slams
Steffi Graf won, 6–0, 6–0, in 34 minutes against Natasha Zvereva in the 1988 French Open final.Wimbledon
During the 1969 tournament, Susan Tutt beat Marion Boundy 6–2, 6–0 in 20 minutes.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.In the 1925 Wimbledon final Lenglen defeated Joan Fry in 25 minutes, 6–2, 6–0. = winner of the match also won the tournament.There have been at least 12 best-of-five-set matches which have lasted 18 games (6–0, 6–0, 6–0) in the Open era. This is the shortest possible length for a best-of-five-set men's singles match without retirements or defaults.
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 in the Open era which have lasted 12 games (6–0, 6–0) without retirements or defaults.
Incomplete List
Since 2005
