Each year from 1975-1978, Chris Evert (pictured) hoisted the champion's trophy at the U.S. Open. The first two of those victories came over Evonne Goolagong Cawley, the third was against Wendy Turnbull, and her fourth straight title came courtesy of a straight-set victory against Pam Shriver. Evert is the third female tennis player to win four times in a row. Molla Mallory (1915-1918) and Helen Jacobs (1932-1935) also share the record.";
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Richard Sears and James Dwight
Cousins Richard Sears and Dwight Davis teamed up to win five U.S. Championships men's doubles titles together (1882-1884, 1886-1887). That total is still the record for a team at the tournament; none of the three teams who have four titles together are still active in the sport.";
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Louise Brough and Margaret duPont
Individually they had a total of four singles titles, but together as a doubles team, Louise Brough (second from left) and Margaret O. duPont (left) won 12 women's doubles titles. Their victories came in 1942-1950 and in 1955-1957. No other women's doubles team has more than four titles at the tournament's final major.";
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Holcombe Ward (pictured), a future president of the USTA, won six men's doubles titles as a player at the U.S. Championships. His victories from 1899-1901 and 1904-1906 tied him with Richard Sears (1882-1887) for the most men's doubles titles captured by a single player.";
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Margaret duPont
With 13 championship wins, Margaret Osborne duPont holds the record for most women's doubles titles earned by a single player. She just edged out Louis Brough, with whom duPont won 12 of her 13 U.S. Championships women's doubles titles, because duPont won one more title teaming with Sarah Palfrey Cooke in 1941.";
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Richard Sears
Each of Richard Sears' six men's doubles trophies at the U.S. Championships came in successive years from 1882-1887.";
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Margaret duPont
Margaret Osborne duPont was undefeated in women's doubles championship matches at the U.S. Championships from 1941-1950. Those 10 straight titles put her in sole possession of the record for successive doubles titles. ";
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Ken Rosewall
Ken Rosewall won eight career men's singles Grand Slam titles, with two of them coming at the U.S. Open. Fourteen years passed between his first in 1956 and his last in 1970, the longest stretch ever for a repeat champion at the tournament.";
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Molla Mallory
Eleven years after claiming the first of her U.S. Open women's singles titles in 1915, Molla Mallory earned her eighth and final trophy at the event in 1926. Following that win, she finished in the quarterfinals once and the semifinals twice before retiring.";
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Pete Sampras
In 1990, the same year Pete Sampras earned his first career top-level singles title, he captured the first of his 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles. The No. 12 seed in the 1990 U.S. Open, Sampras advanced to the finals with big wins over notable players like No. 6 Thomas Muster, No. 3 Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe to set up an all-American final against No. 4 Andre Agassi. Sampras cruised in three sets to become the youngest men's singles champion at the event. He was just 19 years and 28 days old at the time.";
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Tracy Austin
Tracy Austin advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open as a 14-year-old in 1977, and two years later set the record as the youngest women's singles champion at the tournament. When she beat four-time defending champion Chris Evert in straight sets in the championship match, Austin was just 16 years, 8 months and 28 days old.";
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Bill Larned
Bill Larned won seven U.S. Championship titles during the course of his tennis career, with the final one coming in 1911. When he hoisted the trophy that year, he was 38 years, 8 months and 3 days old.";
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Molla Mallory
When she defeated Bunny Ryan by a 4-6, 6-4, 9-7 score in the 1926 U.S. Championships final, Molla Mallory became the oldest women's singles champion at the tournament. She was 42 years, 5 months and 18 days old at the time.";
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Ken Rosewall
In 1970, Ken Rosewall beat compatriots John Newcombe and Tony Roche in the semifinals and finals, respectively, of the U.S. Open to capture the championship. He was 35 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he hoisted the trophy, making him the oldest men's singles champion of the Open Era.";
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Margaret Smith Court
The title she won at the 1973 U.S. Open was the final Grand Slam victory of Margaret Smith Court's storied career, and it also made her the oldest women's singles champion of the Open Era. At the age of 31 years, 1 month and 23 days, she beat Evonne Goolagong Cawley by a 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 score.";
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Vic Seixas
Vic Seixas' lone men's singles title at the U.S. National came in 1954 when he was 31 years and 7 days old. ";
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Vincent Richards
His lauded volleying skills helped American Vincent Richards become the youngest men's doubles champion in history. Teamed up with mentor Bill Tilden in the 1918 U.S. Championships men's doubles field, he was just 15 years, 4 months and 26 days old when the two earned the title.";
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Martina Hingis
At the age of 17 years, 11 months and 13 days in 1998, Martina Hingis completed a calendar-year women's doubles Grand Slam with her victory at the U.S. Open. With the win, she became the youngest women's doubles champion in tournament history and just the fourth woman to earn a calendar-year Grand Slam in women's doubles.";
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Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt became the youngest men's doubles champion in Open era tennis history when he teamed with Max Mirnyi in 2000. Hewitt, who was 19 years, 6 months and 13 days old at the time, and Mirnyi needed three sets to top Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach for the title.";
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Bob Hewitt
In 1977, Bob Hewitt teamed with Frew McMillan to capture the U.S. Open men's doubles title for the first time. McMillan was over 35 at the time of the victory, but Hewitt set the record for the oldest men's doubles champion, as he was 37 years and 243 days old.";
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Hazel Wightman
Although she continued to win tennis titles until she was 68 years old, Hazel Wightman's final women's doubles title at the U.S. Open came in 1928 at the age of 41 years and 257 days.";
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Vincent Richards
Vincent Richards was 16 years and 3 months old in 1919 when he won the mixed doubles title at the U.S. Championships with Marion Zinderstein. It was the first mixed doubles title at the tournament for both, and it was the only one they would win together at the Championships. They also won a silver medal in mixed doubles at the 1924 Olympics.";
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Serena Williams
Her older sister, Venus, had won the first two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in 1998, and Serena Williams completed the family sweep of the event by teaming with Max Mirnyi to win the Wimbledon and U.S. Open mixed doubles titles. The two big servers beat Patrick Galbraith and Lisa Raymond in straight sets when Williams was just 16 years, 11 months and 14 days old.";
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Bob Hewitt
Paired with Greer Stevens in the 1979 U.S. Open mixed doubles field, Bob Hewitt claimed the title. At 39 years and 8 months old, he became the oldest man to win a mixed doubles title at the tournament.";
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Martina Navratilova
The mixed doubles title Martina Navratilova won with Bob Bryan at the U.S. Open in 2006 was the 41st Grand Slam doubles title of her career (and 10th Slam title in mixed doubles). It also made her the oldest woman in history to win a championship in the event, as she was 49 years, 10 months and 9 days old when she hoisted the winner's trophy. ";
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Vincent Richards
In 1918, Vincent Richards became the youngest player ever to win a match at the U.S. Championships. He was 15 years, 5 months and 8 days old when he won his first-round men's singles match by default and then knocked out Frank Anderson in the second round.";
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Michael Chang
On the opening day of the 1987 US Open, wild card Michael Chang earned a four-set victory over Paul McNamee to become the youngest men's player in the Open Era to win a match at the tournament. Chang was 15 years, 6 months and 10 days old at the time. His run continued, as Chang then beat Nduka Odizor in five sets in the second round, but was knocked out in his next match.";
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Mary Joe Fernandez
Mary Jo Fernandez earned a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Sara Gomer in the first round of the 1985 U.S. Open. Her victory made her the youngest female player to win a main draw match at the tournament, as she was just 14 years and 8 days old at the time.";
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Bill Tilden
From 1918-1925 and then again in 1927 and 1929, American tennis legend Bill Tilden cruised through the U.S. Championships field and earned a spot in the men's finals. No other men's player has reached the singles championship match that frequently, although Bill Larned made it to nine finals and Bill Johnston, Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras all appeared in the finals eight times.";
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Molla Mallory
Norwegian-born tennis player Molla Mallory came to New York City to work as a masseuse, but ended up distinguishing herself in tennis. From 1915-1918, 1920-1924 and again in 1926, she played her way into the U.S. Championships final. Those 10 appearances give her the record for most trip to the women's finals. Even more impressive is the fact that in the 15 years she played at the tournament, her worst result was a quarterfinal finish in 1927.";
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Ivan Lendl (pictured) achieved a career record of 73-13 at the U.S. Open, and most of those wins came from 1982-1989. During that time Lendl reached the championship match eight straight times. That record is matched only by Bill Tilden, who reached the finals each year from 1918-1925.";
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Of the nine U.S. Open finals Chris Evert (pictured) reached during her career, six of them came consecutively from 1975-1980. She shares the record for most successive women's singles finals reached with Pauline Betz, who achieved that feat in the tournaments from 1941-1946.";
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Richard Sears
In the seven singles finals in which Richard Sears competed, he emerged victorious every time. That impressive record from 1881-1887 earned him the record for most singles finals without losing.";
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Alice Marble
Each time Alice Marble reached the finals of a Grand Slam tournament, she captured the title. One of those wins came at Wimbledon in 1939, but the other four occurred at the U.S. Championships in 1936, 1938, 1939 and 1940. Her 4-for-4 championship performance at the tournament gives her the record for most women's singles finals without losing. ";
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Bjorn Borg
Although he reached the finals of the U.S. Open in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1981, Bjorn Borg was never able to win a title at the Slam. Two of his losses came against Jimmy Connors -- in four sets and in three sets -- and two came courtesy of John McEnroe -- in a thrilling five-set match in 1980 and in four sets the following year.";
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Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had four chances to win the championship at the U.S. Open and achieve a career Grand Slam, but she fell short each time. In 1973 she lost in three sets to Margaret Court, and she fell in three sets again the following year, this time to Billie Jean King. Goolagong Cawley's losses in 1975 and 1976 both came at the hands of Chris Evert. ";
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Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston won the U.S. Championships twice, capturing the trophy in 1915 and 1919, but he had many more opportunities to add to that total. He lost six times in the championship match, finishing as the runner-up in 1916, 1920 and from 1922-1925.";
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Louise Brough
Although Louise Brough's 16 women's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Championships is what distinguishes her tennis career at the event, she also excelled in the singles draw. She won in 1947, but Brough also reached the finals in 1942, 1943, 1948, 1954 and 1957. Her five runner-up finishes sets the record for women at the event.";
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Bill Johnston (to Bill Tilden)
For a number of years, Bill Johnston (left) was viewed as the best American tennis player. Then Bill Tilden appeared on the tennis scene and usurped his dominance. \"Little Bill\" beat \"Big Bill\" in the 1919 finals of the U.S. Championships, but Tilden then returned the favor five-fold. He beat Johnston five times (1920, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925).";
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Helen Jacobs (to Alice Marble)
Helen Jacobs captured the trophy at the U.S. Championships four straight years from 1932-1935, but Alice Marble ended her reign in 1936. Jacobs would reach the finals again in 1939 and 1940, but Marble was there again both times to block her way.";
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Vic Seixas
In an extremely lengthy tennis career, Vic Seixas played in the U.S. Open field 28 times. If not for World War II and the three years he left the sport to serve as an American pilot, he likely would have added to his record. His 24 straight appearances from 1946-1969 are the record for most successive tournaments played (he also competed from 1940-1942 and in 1944).";
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Martina Navratilova
From 1973-1993, Martina Navratilova competed in the U.S. Open women's singles field a record 21 times. Not only is that the record for most appearances in the women's singles draw at the tournament, but it is also the record for the most successive tournaments played. During that time she amassed a U.S. Open win-loss record of 89-17 and won four titles. ";
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Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors played in 22 U.S. Opens (1970-1989, 1991-1992) and participated in 115 matches at the tournament during that time. Only one other male tennis player -- Vic Seixas -- has played in more than 100 men's singles matches, as he competed in 102 from 1940-1969. Connors also has the most men's singles wins during that time, emerging victorious in 98 matches.";
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Chris Evert
The 1971 U.S. Open was the first Slam in which Chris Evert participated, and the 1989 US Open was the last Slam of her career. During that time, she played in the tournament 19 straight years, finishing twice in the quarterfinals, eight times in the semis, three times in the finals and six times with the championship trophy. Evert holds the record for most career women's singles matches played at the event with 113. The woman closest to her total is Martina Navratilova, who played in 106 singles matches from 1973-1993. Evert has also won the most matches at the U.S. Open. She has 101 wins, while no other female player has more than 89.";
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Bill Tilden
With a 71-7 record at the U.S. Open from 1916-1930, Bill Tilden's winning percentage was .910. No other men's singles player who has played a minimum of 50 matches has a winning percentage that high, although Pete Sampras' 71-9 record (.887 winning percentage) comes the closest.";
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Helen Wills Moody
From 1922-1933, Helen Wills Moody played in the singles draw in nine U.S. Open tournaments. She reached the finals every time and won seven titles. Her .962 winning percentage is the best among women's singles players with more than 40 matches played.";
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Bill Tilden
Putting on a display unrivalred in men's singles history at the U.S. Open, Bill Tilden won 42 straight matches from 1920-1926. His streak finally came to an end in the 1926 quarterfinals against Henri Cochet. After leading 6-5 in the fifth set, Tilden lost three straight games, and Cochet advanced. Ivan Lendl is second behind Tilden in the record books: he won 27 straight matches from 1985-1988.";
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Helen Wills Moody
Helen Wills Moody won 46 successive women's singles matches at the U.S. Championships from 1927-1933, 15 better than Chris Evert, who holds the No. 2 spot in this category. Wills Moody's streak ended when she retired in the third set of the 1933 championship match against Helen Jacobs. Jacobs had won the first set, 8-6, before Wills Moody evened the match by winning the second set 3-6. She retired while trailing 0-3 in the third.";
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Frank Sedgman
En route to winning the U.S. Championship men's singles title in 1951 and 1952, Frank Sedgman set the record for most successive sets won. He won 28 sets and may have been able to add to that total had he not turned professional for the 1953 season.";
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Helen Wills Moody
In her most dominant stretch at the U.S. Open between 1927-1933, Helen Wills Moody won 54 straight sets.";
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Jimmy Connors
From 1974-1985, Jimmy Connors was a permanent fixture in at least the semifinals at the U.S. Open. In his record 12 straight semifinal appearances, he advanced to the championship match seven times.";
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Chris Evert
In the 19 years she competed in the U.S. Open singles field, Chris Evert reached the semifinals 17 times. The majority of those came from 1971-1986, where Evert made it at least to the semifinals 16 consecutive times (she made it to the finals nine times during that stretch).";
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Fred Alexander and Harold Hackett
From 1905-1911, Fred Alexander and Harold Hackett made it to seven men's doubles finals as teammates. They won four of those seven trips to the championship match. That stretch at the U.S. Championships earned both the record for the most doubles finals by a team and the most successive doubles finals reached by a team. Alexander has another record to his name, as he has reached more men's doubles finals than any other player. Alexander was also in the men's doubles finals in 1900, 1917 and 1918. ";
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Louise Brough and Margaret duPont
Louise Brough and Margaret duPont reached 14 U.S. Championships women's doubles finals together, making it to the title round each year from 1942-1950 and 1953-1957. With those performances they claimed the record both for most doubles finals reached as a team and most successive finals reached (nine straight). duPont reached more women's doubles finals than any other competitor, as she also earned a trip to the finals in 1941.";
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John Bromwich
Eleven years passed between John Bromwich's first U.S. Championships men's doubles title in 1939 and his third and final in 1950 (his second title came in 1949).";
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman's first U.S. Championships women's doubles title came in 1909 with Editch Rotch; she swept the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the event that year (and the two subsequent years). Nineteen years later, Wightman teamed with Helen Wills Moody to win her sixth and final U.S. Championships women's doubles title.";
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Two players share the record of 13 years between first and last U.S. Championships: Clarence Hobart and Wallace F. Johnson. Two years after Hobart won his final title in 1905 (his first came in 1892, the inaugural year of mixed doubles action at the tournament), Johnson won his first title. Johnson's final mixed doubles title at the event was in 1920.";
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Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova's professional career began in 1975 and ended in 2006. During that lengthy career she earned three mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Open, with the first coming in 1985 and the last in 2006 (she won her second in 1987). That 21-year period between first and last championships is a record for women in mixed doubles.";
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In a truly marathon first-round match at the U.S. Open in 1969, F.D. Robbins outlasted Dick Dell (pictured) in five sets. The match featured more games than any other in history: 100. The final score was 22-20, 9-7, 6-8, 8-10, 6-4.";
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When the tie-break system was introduced to the U.S. Open in 1970, it capped the maximum number of games that could be played in a men's singles match at 65. John Lloyd (pictured) and Paul McNamee came the closest to reaching that limit, as they played 63 games in the second round in 1979. The match lasted 3 hours and 56 minutes and included 35 tie-break points before Lloyd prevailed by a 5-7, 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 7-6 score.";
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The 1948 women's singles championship match between Margaret O. duPont and A. Louise Brough holds the record for most games in a match, set and final. A total of 48 games were played (including 28 in the final set) before duPont finally beat Brough by a score of 4-6, 6-4, 15-13. More games (51) were played in the 1898 final between Juliette P. Atkinson and Marion Jones -- Atkinson won 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 -- but it occurred before the switch was made in women's tennis to best 2-of-3 set matches.";
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When the tie-break system was introduced to the U.S. Open in 1970, it capped the maximum number of games that could be played in a women's singles match at 39. Steffi Graf (pictured) needed all of them to beat Pam Shriver in their 1985 quarterfinal match. No. 11 Graf finally knocked off No. 4 Shriver 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4).";
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When John Newcombe (pictured) beat Marty Riessen in the fourth round of the 1969 U.S. Open, he needed a record 48 games in the fourth and final set to win, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 25-23. Newcombe's next two matches would also be decided by extra games, as he beat Fred Stolle 13-11 in the fifth set of their quarterfinal match and lost to Tony Roche by an 8-6 score in the fifth set of the semis.";
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Pancho Gonzales (left) lost the first set to Ted Schroeder by an 18-16 score in the 1949 U.S. Championships men's singles finals and dropped the second set 6-2, but he rallied to win the next three (6-1, 6-2, 6-4) and the championship. A record total of 67 games were played.";
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The championship match in the 1972 U.S. Open was the easiest match Jimmy Connors (pictured) played throughout the tournament. He needed just 20 games to defeat two-time champion Ken Rosewall by a 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 score.";
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Carole Caldwell Graebner's lone trip to a Grand Slam championship match wasn't a welcoming experience. She was swept off the court by Maria Bueno (pictured) after just 13 games, with the Brazilian winning her third U.S. Championships title by a 6-1, 6-0 score. Thirteen games also decided Ellen Hansell's win over Laura Knight in the 1887 finals, Hazel Hotchkiss' victory over Maud Barger-Wallach in the 1909 finals and Molla Bjurstedt's triumph over Louise Hammond Raymond in the 1916 finals.";
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The longest tie-break in U.S. Open history occurred in the first round of the 1993 men's singles draw. Goran Ivanisevic (pictured) topped qualifier Daniel Nestor in straight sets in the match, but the third set tie-break spanned 38 points. Ivanisevic prevailed, 20-18. ";
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Since 1911, the year the Challenge Round was eliminated for men at the U.S. Championships, four men's champions have won the title without dropping a single set. Tony Trabert (pictured) accomplished the feat twice, going 18-0 in 1953 and 21-0 in 1955. Frank Parker cruised 13-0 in 1945, Frank Sedgman went 21-0 in 1952 and Neale Fraser equaled that 21-0 record in 1960. ";
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Since 1918, the year the Challenge Round was eliminated for women at the U.S. Championships, 19 women's champions have won the title without dropping a single set. It was a three-time achievement for Helen Wills, who went 12-0 in 1927, 10-0 in 1928 and 12-0 in 1929, as well as for Billie Jean King (12-0 in 1967, 1971 and 1972) and Chris Evert (12-0 in 1976 and 1978 and 14-0 in 1977). Margaret Smith Court went 12-0 twice, in 1965 and 1969, while Martina Navratilova went 14-0 in 1983 and 1987. Serena Williams (pictured) was the most recent women's tennis player to win without a dropping a set, as her title in 2002 came courtesy a 14-0 run. Other set sweepers are Helen Wills Moody (12-0 in 1931), Anita Lizana (12-0 in 1937), Alice Marble (12-0 in 1940), Maureen Connolly (12-0 in 1953), Doris Hart (10-0 in 1955), Althea Gibson (12-0 in 1957), Maria Bueno (12-0 in 1964), Monica Seles (14-0 in 1992), Steffi Graf (14-0 in 1996), Martina Hingis (14-0 in 1997), Lindsay Davenport (14-0 in 1998) and Venus Williams (14-0 in 2001).";
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