Trivial Tennis Trivia
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Trivial Tennis Trivia
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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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🎾ATP 2025🎾
Jannik Sinner becomes the 2nd ATP player with multiple wins over a world number 1 in 2024 and 2025 (also defeated #1 Novak Djokovic at Australian Open 2024), after Carlos Alcaraz (5 wins, all over Sinner).

10 other players have defeated the world #1 in 2024 or 2025, but only once each
🎾ATP/WTA 2026🎾
None of the top seeds in the 4 ATP/WTA qualifying tournaments this week qualified for the main draws: Antonia Ruzic (Brisbane), Darja Semenistaja (Auckland), Cristian Garin (Hong Kong), and Matteo Arnaldi (Brisbane, withdrew from round 2 of qualifying but still entered as lucky loser)
January 4, 2026 at 9:48 AM
🎾ATP 2026🎾
Alexander Zverev (against Tallon Griekspoor) was the 1st top-10 player to win an ATP match in 2026, after Alex de Minaur (against Casper Ruud) and Taylor Fritz (against Sebastian Baez) lost their opening matches of the season
January 4, 2026 at 9:25 AM
🎾United Cup 2026🎾
Zizou Bergs lost 6 of his last 7 matches (since Wimbledon 2025) on all levels (ATP/Challengers) against players outside the top 100, only winning against #118 Tseng Chun-hsin at the US Open
January 3, 2026 at 4:20 AM
🎾WTA 2026🎾
Solana Sierra wins the 1st WTA match of the 2026 season, after Madison Keys in 2023 (against Marie Bouzkova), Beatriz Haddad Maia in 2024 (against Sara Sorribes Tormo), and Elena Rybakina in 2025 (against Bouzas Maneiro).

Keys, Haddad Maia, and Rybakina ended those seasons in the top 20
January 2, 2026 at 6:25 AM
🎾United Cup 2025🎾
Sebastian Baez had lost his last 14 matches against players ranked higher than him, since defeating #12 Holger Rune at Rome 2024. The previous time Baez won a match on hardcourt against a higher-ranked player was against #23 Borna Coric at the US Open in 2023
January 2, 2026 at 4:11 AM
🎾ATP 2026🎾
Welcome to the 2026 season!

Sebastian Baez is the first ATP match winner of 2026, following Pablo Carreno Busta in 2025 (against Alexander Shevchenko) and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in 2024 (against Thiago Seyboth Wild). Taylor Fritz won the 1st ATP match of 2023 (against Jiri Lehecka)
January 2, 2026 at 3:59 AM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
In the last 3 seasons (2023, 2024, 2025), Jannik Sinner (81.0% in 2023, 92.4% in 2024, 90.6% in 2025), Carlos Alcaraz (84.4% in 2023, 80.6% in 2024, 88.8% in 2025) and Novak Djokovic (88.9% in 2023, 80.4% in 2024) are the only 3 ATP players with a win rate of at least 80% in a single year
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Each of the last 3 countries to host the Davis Cup final won the title in their 1st "consecutive" year of hosting: France in 2017 (played in Lille), Spain in 2019 (played in Madrid), and Italy in 2025 (played in Bologna). Croatia lost the final of 2016 to Argentina (in Zagreb)
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Only Carlos Alcaraz (35), Jannik Sinner (34), and Alex de Minaur (23) won more ATP sets in 2025 with 6-0 or 6-1 than Jaume Munar (15).

The last time Munar lost an ATP match despite winning a set 6-0 or 6-1 was against Arthur Fils at Roland Garros (6-7 6-7 6-2 6-0 4-6, 8-0 since)
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Italy is the 1st team to win at least 3 consecutive editions of the Davis Cup since the United States in 1968-1972 (5 in a row). In every edition until 1971, the reigning champion received a bye to the final of the Davis Cup (the "Challenge Round")
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Since the start of 2020, Matteo Berrettini is the player with the most Davis Cup singles matches on the highest level (Qualifiers+Finals) without losing at least once (11-0), ahead of Daniil Medvedev (5-0) and Yannick Hanfmann (4-0)
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Matteo Berrettini has won each of his last 9 Davis Cup matches, since losing in doubles (with Fabio Fognini) to Vasek Pospisil and Felix Auger-Aliassime in the 2022 semifinals, and has won his last 11 Davis Cup singles matches, since losing to Taylor Fritz in the group stage in 2019
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Italy is the 1st team to reach at least 3 consecutive Davis Cup finals since Australia in 1999-2001, and the 1st team to face different opponents in at least 3 consecutive Davis Cup finals (Australia, Netherlands, Germany/Spain) since Sweden in 1996-1998 (France, USA, Italy)
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
With Alexander Zverev's win against Francisco Cerundolo, Zverev has played his 81st ATP match of 2025 (56-25), the highest on tour (Carlos Alcaraz and Alex de Minaur on 80). Zverev was also the player with the most ATP matches in 2024 (90, 69-21)
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Alexander Zverev defeats any player named Francisco (Cerundolo, Comesana) for the 1st time in a completed match (any level) since defeating Francisco Bahamonde at the Orange Bowl Juniors in December 2013 (0-4 since) - Zverev previously defeated Cerundolo by retirement at Canada 2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Tomas Machac has won 1 match in singles or doubles since losing to Taylor Fritz and Salisbury/Skupski at the US Open (1-8), with his only win in singles against Mattia Bellucci in Shanghai. Machac has lost 4 of his last 5 singles matches and all 4 doubles matches since the US Open
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
#20 Tommy Paul and #39 Lorenzo Sonego are the only 2 ATP top-50 players who have not won and/or lost any ATP matches by retirement in 2025. Paul did give a walkover (in Acapulco) and Sonego profited from a walkover (in Marseille), but both had no mid-match retirements in 2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🎾Davis Cup 2025🎾
Raphael Collignon had won only 1 of his first 11 ATP matches (1-10, only win against Fabio Fognini at Marrakech 2025), but has won 8 of his last 11 ATP matches (8-3 since the start of the US Open 2025)
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
With Novak Djokovic ending 2025 in the ATP top-10, Djokovic (2007-2016, 2018-2025), Roger Federer (2002-2015, 2017-2020), and Rafael Nadal (2005-2022) have all ended 18 different seasons in the top 10, ahead of Andre Agassi and Jimmy Connors on 16
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
Of any players starting 2025 in the ATP top 100 (on 1 January), Fabio Fognini (91→UNR) and Emil Ruusuvuori (-452, 95→547) will have lost the most ranking spots in 2025, ahead of Thanasi Kokkinakis (-369, 77→446), Pavel Kotov (-368, 86→454), and Zhang Zhizhen (-366, 45→411)
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
Of any players ending 2025 in the ATP top 100, Jenson Brooksby (UNR → 53) and Reilly Opelka (+243, 293→50) will have gained the most ranking spots in 2025 (since 1 January), ahead of Filip Misolic (+237, 316→79), Shintaro Mochizuki (+141, 235→94) and Valentin Royer (+139, 197→58)
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
1 player who was unranked on 1 January 2025 will end the year inside the ATP top 100 (Jenson Brooksby, UNR -> 53), while 1 player who was inside the ATP top 100 on 1 January 2025 will end the year unranked (Fabio Fognini, 91 -> UNR, retired)
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
After the ATP Finals, #168 Rafael Jodar and #191 Daniil Glinka are the only 2 players in the top 200 who have not played any ATP Tour events in 2025 (including qualifying, Davis Cup).

#157 Francesco Maestrelli is the highest-ranked player without any ATP main draw matches in 2025
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
Jannik Sinner ends 2025 on a win percentage of 90.6% (58-6), after having won 92.4% of his matches in 2024 (73-6). Sinner is the 2nd player this century to end consecutive years on a win rate of at least 90%, after Roger Federer in 2004-2006 (92.5% in 2004, 95.3% in 2005, 94.8% in 2006)
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🎾ATP 2025🎾
Jannik Sinner recorded his 19th win over a top-10 opponent in 2025 (19-4), the highest number of ATP top-10 wins in a single year since Novak Djokovic in 2016 (21-4), surpassing Sinner's own total of 2024 (18-5)
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM