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#1 · (Edited)
Goran Ivanisevic
the biggest specialist of winning long tie-breaks (9-0 record in tie-breaks with at least 24 points!)




Interesting tie-break stuff - records
  • The longest tie-break in tennis history: Bjorn Borg defeated Premjit Lall 6-3, 6-4, 9-8(20/18) at Wimbledon 1973. The Borg's record has been equaled six times by five players (Ivanisevic, Federer, Acasuso, Tsonga & Murray).

    Here are the matches with the longest tie-breaks (in terms of points) in singles:
Code:
2017 - A.Murray d. P.Kohlschreiber 6-7(4) 7-6(20/18) 6-1...    Dubai
2007 - A.Roddick d. J.W.Tsonga  6-7(18/20) 7-6(2) 6-3 6-3...   Australian Open
2006 - J.Acasuso d. B.Phau 7-5 7-6(20/18)...                   Toronto
2004 - R.Federer d. M.Safin 6-3 7-6(20/18)...                  Houston
1997 - G.Ivanisevic d. G.Rusedski 4-6 6-4 7-6(20/18)...        Queen's Club
1993 - G.Ivanisevic d. D.Nestor 6-4 7-6(5) 7-6(20/18)...       US Open
1973 - B.Borg d. P.Lall 6-3 6-4 9-8(20/18)...                  Wimbledon
The longest tie-breaks since 1990 (at least 15/13):

2015
Sydney: G.Muller - B.Tomic 7-6, 7-6(13)
Cincinnati: J.Chardy - J.Isner 6-7, 7-6(13), 7-6
2014
Doha: D.Brown - I.Karlovic 3-6, 7-6(13), 6-4
Davis Cup: B.Kavcic - G.Elias 7-6(14), 6-1, 6-4
Rome: JW.Tsonga - K.Anderson 7-6(14), 7-6
Roland Garros: J.Isner - T.Robredo 7-6(13), 7-6, 6-7, 7-5
Halle: P.Kohlschreiber - D.Brown 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(16)
Wimbledon: L.Hewitt - M.Przysiezny 6-2, 6-7(14), 6-1, 6-4
Wimbledon: J.Isner - J.Nieminen 7-6(17), 7-6, 7-5
Stuttgart: G.Garcia-Lopez - Y.Marti 7-6(13), 7-5
US Open: I.Marchenko - M.Chiudinelli 7-6, 4-6, 7-6(13), 7-6
2013
Australian Open: T.Berdych - K.Anderson 6-3, 6-2, 7-6(13)
Bogota: I.Karlovic - I.Sijsling 6-3, 7-6(14)
Paris: T.Berdych - M.Raonic 7-6(13), 6-4
2012
Dubai: L.Lacko - S.Bubka 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(14)
Delray Beach: J.Isner - J.Levine 6-4, 7-6(15)
Indian Wells: A.Dolgopolov - S.Darcis 6-7(13), 6-3, 7-5
Davis Cup: U.Ignatik - A.Delic 7-6(16), 7-6, 6-4
Olympics: J.Isner - J.Tipsarevic 7-5, 7-6(14)
2011
Australian Open: JM.Del Potro - D.Sela 7-6(13), 6-4, 6-4
Delray Beach: T.Gabashvili - J.Isner 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(13)
Delray Beach: J.Tipsarevic - I.Karlovic 7-6(14), 7-6
Madrid: R.Federer - F.Lopez 7-6(13), 6-7, 7-6
Queens Club: J.Ward - A.Mannarino 6-2, 6-7(14), 6-4
US Open: N.Djokovic - A.Dolgopolov 7-6(14), 6-4, 6-2
2010
Rotterdam: M.Berrer - A.Clement 7-6(16), 4-6, 6-4
Roland Garros: JC.Ferrero - P.Riba 7-6, 6-7(13), 6-2, 6-2
Davis Cup: F.Gil - A.Delic 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(14), 3-6, 9-7
2009
Wimbledon: P.Petzschner - M.Zverev 4-6, 7-6(13), 3-6, 7-6, 6-0
US Open: J.Isner - V.Hanescu 6-1, 7-6(14), 7-6
2008
Nottingham: I.Karlovic - S.Querrey 7-6, 7-6(14)
2007
Australian Open: A.Roddick - J.W.Tsonga 6-7(18), 7-6, 6-3, 6-3 - record
Dubai: R.Soderling - D.Ferrer 7-6(13), 6-1
Hamburg: J.C.Ferrero - M.Safin 6-3, 7-6(15)
Nottingham: G.Garcia-Lopez - A.Bogdanovic 6-4, 7-6(13)
Umag: C.Berlocq - V.Hanescu 6-7(13), 6-4, 6-2
Lyon: O.Rochus - M.Fish 6-7, 7-6, 7-6(15)
Basel: I.Karlovic - T.Berdych 6-7, 7-6, 7-6(13)
2006
Indian Wells: I.Andreev - R.Soderling 3-6, 7-6(14), 6-4
Toronto: J.Acasuso - B.Phau 7-5, 7-6(18) - record
Basel: R.Federer - D.Ferrer 6-3, 7-6(14)
Davis Cup: J.Novak - R.Sluiter 6-2, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6(13)
2005
Acapulco: A.Montanes - T.Zib 6-4, 7-6(15)
Wimbledon: G.Monfils - N.Okun 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(14)
2004
Milan: G.Carraz - K.Beck 6-4 6-7(14) 7-6
San Jose: A.Roddick - M.Fish 7-6(13) 6-4
Wimbledon: I.Karlovic - G.Elseneer 6-4 6-4 3-6 7-6(14)
Sopot: J.Monaco - A.Martin 6-7(13) 7-5 6-3
Moscow: G.Rusedski - I.Karlovic 7-6(14) 6-2
Masters: R.Federer - M.Safin 6-3 7-6(18) - record
2003
Milan: R.Krajicek - R.Stepanek 3-6 6-3 7-6(13)
Memphis: T.Dent - M.Philippoussis 7-6(15) 6-1
Nottingham: W.Arthurs - B.Bryan 7-6(17) 7-5
Wimbledon: F.Saretta - A.Calleri 6-4 6-7(13) 6-2 6-7 10-8
Newport: J.Gimelstob - J.Morrison 6-4 4-6 7-6(13)
Davis Cup: N.Lapentti - V.Hanescu 6-4 6-7 6-7 7-6(13) 6-3
Davis Cup: Y.J.Kim - A.Khan 7-6(17) 4-6 6-3 7-6
Madrid: M.Fish - T.Robredo 7-6(14) 6-2
2002
Adelaide: I.Ljubicic - M.Russell 7-6 7-6(13)
Roland Garros: W.Arthurs - A.Roddick 4-6 7-6(14) 4-6 7-5 6-3
Roland Garros: G.Canas - L.Hewitt 6-7 7-6(13) 6-4 6-3
Washington: T.Enqvist - M.Russell 7-6(13) 6-0
Davis Cup: S.Schalken - T.Ketola 7-6(13) 6-3 6-3
2001
Indianapolis: I.Ljubicic - C.Woodruff 6-3 7-6(15)
US Open: N.Massu - F.Clavet 7-6(13) 6-3 7-6
2000
Halle: D.Prinosil - I.Ljubicic 6-4 6-7(13) 6-4
Palermo: O.Rochus - D.Nargiso 7-6(14) 6-1
Shanghai: N.Massu - M.Youzhny 7-6(14) 6-1
Basel: T.Enqvist - J.Gambill 7-6(14) 7-6
1999
Doha: T.Henman - J.Tarango 6-4 6-7(13) 6-4
Halle: J.Siemerink - P.Rafter 6-4 3-6 7-6(17)
Wimbledon: A.Ilie - W.Ferreira 7-6(13) 7-5 6-7 6-1
US Open: C.Pioline - G.Kuerten 4-6 7-6 7-6(14) 7-6
Mallorca: H.Gumy - A.Calatrava 7-6(15) 4-6 7-5
1998
Antverp: G.Rusedski - G.Raoux 7-6 3-6 7-6(13)
Indian Wells: M.Rios - G.Rusedski 6-3 6-7(15) 7-6 6-4
Munich: J.Imaz - M.Martelli 4-6 7-6(13) 7-5
Roland Garros: C.Moya - J.Imaz 6-4 7-6(14) 6-2
Toronto: G.Canas - G.Stafford 2-6 7-6(13) 6-2
New Haven: R.Krajicek - T.Henman 5-7 6-2 7-6(16)
1997
Adelaide: A.Cherkasov - P.Rafter 6-2 7-6(13)
Adelaide: J.Tarango - J.Bjorkman 6-1 6-7 7-6(15)
Davis Cup: P.Rafter - D.Rikl 7-6(13) 0-6 6-2
Milan: S.Bruguera - R.Krajicek 4-6 7-6 7-6(13)
Copenhagen: D.Prinosil - T.Champion 7-6 7-6(13)
Queen's Club: G.Ivanisevic - G.Rusedski 4-6 6-4 7-6(18) - record
1996
Adelaide: J.Frana - T.Woodbridge 7-6(13) 6-7 6-3
Cincinnati: T.Muster - W.Ferreira 7-6 7-6(14)
1995
none
1994
Indian Wells: J.Yzaga - A.Cherkasov 7-6(14) 6-0
Bologna: B.Shelton - E.Sanchez 7-6(16) 4-6 6-3
Kuala Lumpur: A.Malik - T.Nydahl 7-6(14) 7-6
Athens: F.Clavet - J.Sanchez 5-7 7-6(13) 6-4
1993
Rosmalen: W.Masur - R.Krajicek 6-3 7-6(14)
US Open: G.Ivanisevic - D.Nestor 6-4 7-6 7-6(18) - record
US Open: M.Wilander - J.Oncins 7-5 7-6 7-6(16)
Lyon: C.Pioline - Y.El Aynaoui 7-6 7-6(14)
Buenos Aires: D.Perez - H.De La Pena 7-6(15) 6-4
1992
Australian Open: O.Camporese - L.Wahlgren 6-4 6-2 7-6(15)
Manchester: S.Youl - L.Lavalle 6-7(16) 7-5 7-5
Wimbledon: S.Stolle - C.Wilkinson 3-6 6-4 7-6(15) 6-4
Washington: J.Bates - F.Montana 7-6(14) 6-3
1991
Bordeaux: C.Costa - M.Wostenholme 7-5 7-6(13)
Toulouse: C.Pioline - K.Curren 6-4 6-7(13) 6-3
Stockholm: G.Ivanisevic - G.Forget 7-6(13) 7-6
1990
Philadelphia: P.Annacone - N.Kroon 6-7(13) 6-2 6-4
Indian Wells: J.Pugh - A.Volkov 4-6 6-2 7-6(13)
Barcelona: V.Paloheimo - J.Aguilera 7-6(13) 4-6 6-3
Tokyo: P.Chamberlin - G.Bloom 7-6(13) 7-5
 
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#109 · (Edited)
Frequency of playing tie-breaks (notable active players):

We can always easily assume that all-serve players are more often involved in tie-breaks than other players. Before I counted it, I had known that Karlovic and Isner would have been at the top (Karlovic edges a bit playing on average 1 tie-break set per match). This stats below confirms it as well as that grinders experience tie-breaks rarely. It shouldn't be surprising that Volandri, with arguably the weakest serve among notable names, is placed at the bottom of the list. The only thing which surprised me is the fact Rochus plays tie-breaks with a bit higher frequency than Anderson, but the South African has improved his serve a lot in the last two years, so I expect when they'll have finished their careers, Anderson will be above Rochus in this department.

Code:
1.07 Ivo Karlovic
0.92 John Isner
0.71 Milos Raonic
0.59 Feliciano Lopez
0.55 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
0.53 Michael Llodra, Victor Hanescu
0.51 Nicolas Almagro
0.50 Jeremy Chardy, Grigor Dimitrov
0.49 Sergiy Stakhovsky
0.48 Thomaz Bellucci
0.47 Stanislas Wawrinka, Sam Querrey
0.46 Roger Federer, Dmitry Tursunov
0.45 Philipp Kohlschreiber, Mardy Fish, Radek Stepanek, Bernard Tomic, Igor Andreev
0.44 Paul-Henri Mathieu, Ernests Gulbis, Marcos Baghdatis
0.43 James Blake, Gael Monfils
0.42 Marin Cilic, Fernando Verdasco, Robby Ginepri
0.41 Andreas Seppi, Tommy Haas, Mikhail Youzhny, Olivier Rochus
0.40 Jurgen Melzer, Jarkko Nieminen
0.39 Juan Martin del Potro, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet, Xavier Malisse
0.38 Kevin Anderson, Alexandr Dolgopolov
0.37 David Nalbandian, Julien Benneteau
0.36 Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Lleyton Hewitt, Gilles Simon
0.35 Albert Montanes, Tommy Robredo
0.34 Viktor Troicki
0.33 Rafael Nadal, Juan Monaco, Florian Mayer
0.32 Nikolay Davydenko, Kei Nishikori
0.28 Marcel Granollers
0.27 David Ferrer
0.25 Janko Tipsarevic
0.23 Filippo Volandri
 
#110 ·
What is the official spelling of tie(-)break? I think I've once heard that is was originally called 'tie breaker'.
 
#116 ·
That's been added, I don't know why it's disappeared :( The system doesn't work properly, a couple of weeks ago something what had been deleted suddenly popped up.

The longest tie-breaks outside the main-level:​

Longest tie-break in ATP qualifying tournament:
A.Rahunen d P.Nyborg 7-6(24/22), 2-6, 6-3 (Copenhagen, 1992)
Longest tie-break in major qualifying tournament:
M.Llodra d. R.Fromberg 6-3, 6-7(19/21), 8-6 (Wimbledon, 2001)
Longest tie-break in Challengers:
M.Gallardo d. S.Giraldo 7-6(22/20), 6-2 (Campos do Jordao, 2005)
Longest tie-break in Futures:
B.Balleret d. G.Couillard 7-6(36/34), 6-1 (USA F1, 2013)
Longest tie-break in juniors:
R.Karanusic d. A.Roddick 4-6, 7-6(18/16), 7-5 (Mexico, 1999) ?
Longest tie-break in seniors:
G.Forget d. J.McEnroe 6-4, 7-6(20/18) (London, 2001)
Longest super TB in juniors:
H.Cunha d. U.Ignatik 4-2, 1-4, [31/29] (Roehamption, 2007)
Longest super TB in seniors:
T.Muster d. P.Cash 3-6, 6-3, [19-17] (Doha, 2006)
 
#120 ·
Tie-breaks in Grand Slams
Code:
[B]Player		Total		   AO		    FO		    W		    USO	
		W	L	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	L
[/B]Federer		114	49	29	10	23	11	40	14	22	14
Lendl		98	50	22	10	22	7	34	20	20	13
Sampras		95	62	19	16	8	11	32	20	36	15
Edberg		74	47	19	10	14	11	24	15	17	11
Roddick		72	48	13	11	6	2	35	20	18	15
Agassi		69	49	13	8	9	4	20	16	27	21
Djokovic	67	32	12	8	13	5	20	8	22	11
Becker		66	41	9	9	4	2	35	22	18	8
Martin		65	55	20	7	6	7	25	22	14	19
Nadal		64	31	12	9	15	5	19	10	18	7
Ivanisevic	62	46	5	7	3	7	41	24	13	8
McEnroe		57	33	4	2	9	7	26	11	18	13
Hewitt		55	47	14	9	12	9	16	17	13	12
Safin		55	37	18	11	8	11	14	9	15	6
Wilander	52	28	14	7	10	9	11	7	17	5
Haas		51	43	11	8	10	9	12	15	18	11
Connors		50	34	3	2	9	3	19	17	19	12
 
#121 ·
DC Europe Group 1: Kavcic def. Sousa 7-6(14), 6-1 ,6-4 ;)
 
#126 ·
Some more Tie-break matches

San Francisco 1981 McCain - Stefanki 76 67 76
Wahington 1982 Fillol - McNamee 76 67 76
Monterrey 1983 Testerman - Meyer 67 76 76
Melbourne 1984 Bauer - Bourne 76 67 76
Kitzbuhel 1985 Westphal - Simonsson 76 67 76

I checked all the tournaments between 1981-1988 and is all that I can fin I will look in the rest of the years another day :wavey:
 
#127 · (Edited)
Tie-breaks with two changes of ends at least (before Monte Carlo 2014)

[tie-breaks '8/6' and longer...]

Below a record-list of 55 best-active & 82 non-active guys ("best" by my criteria), who have played at least 100 main-level tournaments.

I'd propose a term "standard tie-break" for most tie-breaks we witness & it's quite broad term because stretches between 7/0 & 7/5 scores. No matter whether it's 7/0 or 7/5, in both cases (and four others in between), there's only one change of ends (at 3-all, 4:2, 5:1 or 6:0). Vast majority of tie-breaks that everyone experiences over the course of his career, I'd call "standard ones".
How to call longer than standard ones? This is what I propose focusing on number of points not the time of play:

- 2 changes of ends - quite long TB (8/6... 9/7... 10/8)
- 3 changes of ends - long TB (11/9... 12/10... 13/11)
- 4 changes of ends - very long TB (14/12... 15/13... 16/14)
- 5 changes of ends - marathon TB (17/15... 18/16... 19/17)
- 6 changes of ends - record TB
(within 44 years since the tie-break inception, there hasn't been an official TB longer than 20/18)

* In parentheses: long, very long, marathon & record TBs respectively...


Code:
Tsonga		36-16	.692  (8-1, 0-1, 0-0, 1-0)
Isner		54-25	.683  (12-5, 1-1, 1-0)
Murray 		22-11	.666  (4-2)
Federer		73-38	.657  (7-3, 3-0, 0-0, 1-0)
Nadal		34-18 	.653  (6-1, 0-1)
Nieminen	37-23 	.616  (5-3, 1-0)

Youzhny		36-26	.580  (3-5, 2-1)
Melzer		30-23	.566  (5-5)
Stakhovsky	17-13	.566  (1-3)
Del Potro	23-18	.560  (2-5, 1-0)
Davydenko	38-32	.542  (6-2, 1-0)
Monfils		22-19	.536  (4-3, 1-1)
Mayer F.	16-14	.533  (0-3, 1-0)
Hanescu		26-23	.530  (3-2, 1-2)
Hewitt          30-28   .517  (4-3, 0-2)
Cilic		26-25	.509  (0, 0-1)
Djokovic	30-29	.508  (3-6, 1-0)
Karlovic	59-58	.504  (12-6, 5-3)
Lopez F.	40-40	.500  (6-6, 0-2)
Benneteau	18-18	.500  (5-1)
Anderson	14-14	.500  (3-0, 0-1)

Kohlschreiber	27-28	.490  (2-3, 1-0)
Fish		23-24	.489  (1-3, 1-2, 0-1)
Haas		42-44	.488  (4-6)
Ferrer		21-22	.488  (3-1, 1-2)
Tursunov	21-22	.488  (1-3, 1-1)
Seppi		20-21	.487  (1-1, 1-1)
Baghdatis	19-20	.487  (2-5)
Berdych		36-38	.486  (5-5, 2-1)
Monaco		18-19	.486  (1-1, 1-1)
Robredo		27-29	.482  (5-2, 0-1)
Chardy		14-15	.482  (3-3)
Verdasco	34-37	.478  (3-5, 1-0)
Llodra		20-22	.476  (2-1)
Mathieu		20-24	.454  (4-3, 1-1)
Troicki		12-15	.444  (0-1, 1-0)
Wawrinka	25-33	.431  (2-2, 0-2)
Querrey		21-28	.425  (7-3, 0-1)
Simon		14-19	.424  (0-1)
Tipsarevic	20-28	.416  (4-2, 2-1)
Dolgopolov	10-14	.416  (1-1, 0-2)
Garcia-Lopez    15-21   .416  (2-2, 1-0)
Stepanek	22-31	.415  (1-3, 0-2)

Gasquet		20-31	.392  (3-3, 1-1)
Gulbis		11-18	.379  (1-4)
Almagro		20-33	.377  (2-2, 1-1)
Ginepri		9-20	.310  (0-2)
Thx to this stats you can easily imagine how many sets each player won/lost being (at least!) two points away from loss/win :)

82 non-active players (born after 1970)...

Code:
Rios		31-16	.659
Lapentti	34-18 	.653
Gaudio		18-10	.642
Rafter		31-20	.620
Kafelnikov	52-33	.611
Johansson	40-26	.606
Ivanisevic	68-45	.601
Medvedev	28-19	.595
Gonzalez	32-22	.592
Henman		43-30	.589
Norman		25-18	.581
Berasategui	18-13	.580
Ferreira	44-33	.571
T.Martin	34-26	.566
Mirnyi		34-26	.566
Sanguinetti	26-20	.565
Sampras		67-52	.563
Moya		53-41	.563
Agassi		49-38	.563
Escude		18-14	.562
Rosset		41-32	.561
Kiefer		23-18	.560
Roddick		61-48	.559
Ferrero		34-27	.557
Malisse		30-25	.545
Chang		39-32	.549
Grosjean	34-28	.548
Gambill		26-22	.541
Arazi		20-17	.540
Enqvist		45-39	.535
Safin		38-33	.535
Ulihrach	18-16	.529
Clement		29-26	.527
Fromberg	29-26	.527
Mantilla	20-18	.526
Ljubicic	61-55	.525
Larsson		31-28	.525
Schuettler	21-19	.525
Santoro		37-34	.521
Siemerink	29-27	.517
Woodbridge	16-15	.516
Bruguera	26-25	.509
Blake		34-34	.500
Andreev		22-22	.500
Chela		21-21	.500
Hyung-Taik	15-15	.500
Courier		32-33	.492
Corretja	23-24	.489
Ancic		20-21	.487
Canas		19-20	.487
Carlsen		29-31	.483
Kucera		20-22	.476
Spadea		20-22	.476
Rusedski        53-59	.473
Soderling	25-28	.471
El Aynaoui	22-26	.458
Bjorkman	33-42	.444
Krajicek	33-42	.444
Hrbaty		29-37	.439
Koubek		14-18	.437
Massu		16-21	.432
Philippoussis	33-45	.423
Arthurs		25-34	.423
Kuerten		20-28	.416
Nalbandian	15-21	.416
Schalken	19-27	.413
Pavel		23-33	.410
Novak		14-22	.388
Zabaleta	12-20	.375
Srichaphan	13-22	.371
Stoltenberg	14-26	.350
Guys who played only 25 "long" tie-breaks or less
Code:
Nishikori       10-5    .666  (1-0)
Coria		11-6	.647
Montanes	14-8	.636  (0-1, 0-0, 1-0)
A.Martin	13-8	.619
Puerta		11-7 	.611
Bellucci	15-10	.600  (1-1)
Dent		14-11	.560
Portas		11-9	.550
Gaudenzi	13-11	.541
Granollers	9-8	.529  (1-1, 1-0)
Sargsian	12-12	.500
Acasuso		10-12	.454
Fognini		10-13	.434  (2-2)
Haase		8-12	.400  (1-0)
Volandri	9-15	.375  (0-2)
Calleri		8-15	.347
Squillari	6-12	.333
 
#131 ·
Voo, how often are both players in a match on the receiving end of a TB bagel?

Mersin CH R1: Viola def. Davydenko 6-7(0) 7-6(0) 6-3
 
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