2⃣0⃣1⃣9⃣is the year to be remembered for 🇨🇦 :1⃣st GS singles🏆 for 🇨🇦 (Bianca Andreescu )1⃣st player born in 2000s win a GS singles🏆(Bianca Andreescu )1⃣st Roland Garros junior singles 🏆(Leylah Annie Fernandez )1⃣st WC player to win BNP Paribas Open (Bianca Andreescu )1⃣st 🇨🇦 woman to win Canadian Open in singles ( Bianca Andreescu) Youngest ever ATP 500 Finalist ( Félix Auger-Aliassime )Youngest SFinalist Miami Open (Félix Auger-Aliassime )1⃣st career ATP🏆+1⃣st Masters final (Denis Shapovalov )1⃣st career . . .
1⃣st time-🇧🇪 male player in a Masters singles’ Final,-🇧🇪 male player in a singles Final in Cincy,– 🇷🇺 male player in a singles Final in Cincy,-🇧🇪🇷🇺 finalists in a Masters men’s singles Final,-since ’04 (Marat Safin in Madrid/Paris) 🇷🇺 player in b2b Masters singles Final,– 🇷🇺players in both singles Finals in Cincy (Svetlana Kuznetsova & Daniil Medvedev).
David Goffin is the 1⃣st ever 🇧🇪male player who reached a singles’ final in Cincinnati since 1899 (when the tournament was established). He is the 2⃣nd 🇧🇪player after Kim Clijsters who reached the singles’ final in Cincinnati where she beat Maria Sharapova in 2010.
Cumulative lengths of 2⃣ Rogers Cup singles’ finals of 2019 set a new record in 🇨🇦Open history: Women’s singles Final: Bianca Vanessa Andreescu vs Serena Williams 19m15sMen’s singles Final: Rafael Nadal vs Daniil Medvedev 1h10m28sTotal lengths: 89min43s (less than a soccer match).
Kiki Mladenovic’s 10 wins w Sascha Bajin in 1 month: Istanbul Open R1 Dayana Yastremska 63 64, R2 Kateryna Kozlova 61 62, Mutua Madrid Open, Q Ivana Jorovic 76 64, Q Laura Siegemund 76 61, R1 Barbora Strýcová 63 61, Internazionali Di Tennis BNL, Foro Italico, Roma Q Fiona Ferro 76 62, Q Amanda Anisimova . . .
Mutua Madrid Open (6years) + China Open (5years) have the longest active streak with European champions among WTA Premier mandatory tournaments! In 2013 was last time when a non-European won in Mutua Madrid Open and China Open (Serena Williams)
Since its inauguration as WTA Premier Mandatory tournament,only players w at least 5 singles Grand Slam titles have been capable to win Mutua Madrid Open & Roland Garros in the same year! ( Serena Williams in’13 & Maria Sharapova in’14).
Simona Halep advanced into the quarterfinal after beating Viktoria Kuzmova 6-0, 6-0 in 44 minutes. It was Simona Halep‘s 5th double bagel matches in her professional career. All of these matches she won against European, right-handed players between 2008-2019. Here is the list about these 5 lopsided matches:
Karolina Pliskova’s and Ashleigh Barty’s WTA careers and tournament history show some similarities:
This is the 1st time in this century that second straight years BNP Paribas Open celebrated first-time Masters winners on both women’s and men’s singles! In 2018: Naomi Osaka and Juan Martin del Potro in 2019 Bianca Andreescu and Dominic Thiem