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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 · 17h

🎾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 · 18h

🎾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 · 20h

🎾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 · 20h

🎾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 · 20h

🎾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 · 20h

🎾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 · 1d

🎾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 · 1d

🎾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 · 2d

🎾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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Holger Rune is yet to win a match on hardcourt against any player outside the top 100 in 2025 (0-4). Rune lost to #114 Reilly Opelka in Miami, #136 Terence Atmane in Cincinnati, #144 Jan-Lennard Struff at the US Open, and #204 Valentin Vacherot in Shanghai

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
With Terence Atmane in Cincinnati and Valentin Vacherot in Shanghai, there has been a qualifier in the semifinals of consecutive ATP Masters tournaments.

With Vacherot into the Shanghai semifinals, it also means that all 10 current Masters had at least 1 qualifier in the semifinals

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Alex de Minaur (50-18) is only the 2nd Australian player since Lleyton Hewitt in 2004 (68-18) to win at least 50 tour-level matches in a single year, after Ashleigh Barty in 2019 (57-13)

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Valentin Vacherot is the 3rd qualifier to reach the quarterfinals in Shanghai, after Matthew Ebden in 2011 and Mischa Zverev in 2016.

Shanghai is the only ATP Masters tournament in which a qualifier/lucky loser has never reached the semifinals

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

🎾Wuhan 2025🎾
Laura Siegemund has more WTA wins against top 20 in 2025 (5-4) than against players outside the top 50 (4-7). Siegemund previously won against #17 Beatriz Haddad Maia at United Cup, #5 Zheng Qinwen at Australian Open, #8 Madison Keys at Wimbledon, and #17 Diana Shnaider at US Open

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Arthur Rinderknech is the 1st player representing France (ATP/WTA) with at least 3 top-10 wins in 2025 (Ben Shelton in Queen's, Alexander Zverev at Wimbledon and Shanghai).

Terence Atmane, Benjamin Bonzi, Arthur Fils, Corentin Moutet, Alexandre Muller, and Lois Boisson all have 2

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
With Jannik Sinner retiring against Tallon Griekspoor, it was Sinner's first loss against a Dutch player on any level since a defeat to Niels Lootsma in the semifinals of an M25 in Aktobe in February 2019 (12-0 since)

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Tallon Griekspoor is the 4th ATP player with multiple top-2 wins in 2025 (Alexander Zverev in Indian Wells, Jannik Sinner in Shanghai), after Carlos Alcaraz (4 wins against Sinner), Sinner (1 win against Alcaraz, 1 win against Zverev), and Francisco Cerundolo (2 wins against Zverev)

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Jannik Sinner gets eliminated before the final of an ATP tournament on hardcourt for the 1st time since Canada 2024 (lost to Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals).

Jannik Sinner only faced Alex de Minaur (11-0) more often in ATP than Tallon Griekspoor (6-0) without ever losing

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

🎾Beijing 2025🎾
Each of the last 17 WTA Beijing champions have been inside the top 25, since #45 Maria Kirilenko in 2005, and only 3 of the past 17 were ranked outside the top 10: #23 Agnes Szavay in 2007, #12 Agnieszka Radwanska in 2011, and #15 Caroline Garcia in 2017

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

🎾Beijing 2025🎾
Amanda Anisimova wins her 2nd WTA title as a seeded player, after her very 1st WTA title at Bogota 2019. Anisimova won Melbourne 2022 and Doha 2025 while unseeded, and she had lost her previous 3 WTA finals as a seeded player: Queen's, Wimbledon, and US Open 2025

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

🎾Shanghai 2025🎾
Valentin Vacherot is the 3rd ATP player of his (extended) family to reach a Masters Round of 16, after his half-brother Benjamin Balleret at Monte Carlo 2006 and his cousin Arthur Rinderknech at Canada 2024 and Paris 2024 (and plays Alexander Zverev in the Round of 32 on Monday)

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Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 10d

🎾Beijing 2025🎾
Iga Swiatek has failed to reach the final of 5 of her last 6 WTA tournaments in which she was top seed: Round 3 at Wimbledon 2024, semifinals at the Olympics, semifinals at Cincinnati 2024, quarterfinals at US Open 2024, and Round 4 at Beijing 2025.

Swiatek won Seoul 2025 as top seed

Trivial Tennis Trivia @tennistrivia.bsky.social · 10d

🎾Beijing 2025🎾
Tallon Griekspoor became the ATP wooden spoon in Chengdu and Beijing 2025. He was the 1st ATP player to take a wooden spoon in consecutive weeks since Constant Lestienne in February 2023 (Montpellier, Rotterdam)