First golden set in a tennis Grand Slam

When a tennis player wins a set without conceding a point, it is known as a "golden set". Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan) was the first person in Grand Slam history to complete a golden set against Sara Errani (Italy) on 30 June 2012 at the Wimbledon Championships. The unseeded Kazakhstani won 24 consecutive points in the first set of her third-round match against 10th seed and 2012 French Open runner-up Errani, hitting 14 winners in the process. Shvedova went on to win the match 6-0, 6-4 but was beaten by the eventual winner Serena Williams (USA) in the next round. Shvedova was so “in the zone” she was unaware of her achievement until the crowd loudly applauded the first point Errani won in the match at the started of the second set. After the match, the 24-year-old tweeted: "Today I laid a golden egg!". Shvedova had come within one point of a golden set six years earlier when she won the first 23 points of her first set against Amy Frazier (USA) in the 2006 Cellular South Cup, Memphis, USA, before double-faulting at 5-0, 40-0. She eventually lost the match 6-1, 0-6, 0-6. There is only one other known golden set in the Open era (that is, since 1968 when tennis went fully professional) – Bill Scanlon (USA) won all 24 points in the second set of a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Marcos Hocevar (Brazil) at a tournament in Delray Beach, Florida, USA, on 22 February 1983.