As Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, both two-time AO champions, powered through the draw at the Miami Open, their dominance came into sharp focus.
With his straight-sets win over Damir Dzumhur in his opening match in Miami, Sinner had won 24 consecutive sets at ATP Masters level, equalling the record held by Novak Djokovic.
Sinner surpassed Djokovic when he beat Corentin Moutet in straight sets in his next match, and by going all the way to the title without dropping a set, he extended his record to 34 consecutive sets won at Masters tournaments.
At the same time on the women’s side, Sabalenka was building her own impressive numbers.
She stormed to the final without losing a set, joining Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams and Martina Hingis as the only women to win 10 or more consecutive straight-sets matches in Miami.
Sabalenka then won the first set of that final against Coco Gauff – meaning she’d won 22 consecutive sets at the tournament – and while Gauff snared the second set to end the streak, Sabalenka steadied in the third to defend her Miami title.
It got us thinking: how do those consecutive set streaks compare to what players have achieved at the Australian Open?
Our records date back to 1988, the year the AO moved to Melbourne Park, switched to hard courts and expanded to 128-player fields. It’s a comparable period to the Miami Open (which began in 1985) and the ATP Masters era of 1990 onward.
Interestingly, Sinner and Sabalenka appear on the Australian Open leaderboards too – but they’re not at the top.
Roger Federer has won the most consecutive sets in men’s singles at Melbourne Park, a record standing for almost 20 years.
The Swiss legend won 30 consecutive sets, a streak beginning when he won the second set of the AO 2006 final against Marcos Baghdatis, and ending when he lost the first set of his third-round epic against Janko Tipsarevic in 2008.
20+ CONSECUTIVE SETS WON AT MELBOURNE PARK (MEN)
Of those 30 sets won in a row, Federer won six of them 6-0.
The last man to win 20 or more consecutive sets at the AO was Novak Djokovic, who won 26 across AO 2011 and 2012, both tournaments he won. Lleyton Hewitt ended Djokovic’s streak in the 2012 fourth round.
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The women’s singles record at Melbourne Park belongs to Steffi Graf, who won a whopping 39 consecutive sets during her Australian Open three-peat of 1988-1990.
It was not until her three-set victory over Helena Sukova in the 1990 semifinals that Graf dropped a set at the new venue, and she won 50 of her first 51 sets there until experiencing her first defeat to Jana Novotna in the 1991 quarterfinals.
20+ CONSECUTIVE SETS WON AT MELBOURNE PARK (WOMEN)
Sabalenka is second on the list, beating her Miami mark of 22 consecutive sets by winning 25 in a row at the Australian Open.
After losing the first set of the AO 2023 final to Elena Rybakina, Sabalenka did not drop another at the tournament until the 2025 quarterfinals against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Sabalenka’s success at the AO has at times approached Graf levels of dominance. Her 6-2 6-3 win over Elina Svitolina in the 2026 semifinals meant she’d won 53 of her past 57 sets at Melbourne Park.
As the 2026 tennis season pivots to clay, Sinner aims to extend that consecutive-set streak at Masters tournaments when he competes in Monte Carlo next week.
While Sabalenka’s set streak ended, she’s on a 12-match winning streak, is 23-1 this season, and holds an iron grip on the No.1 ranking, leading second-ranked Rybakina by almost 3000 points.
Both look tough to stop.