Stat of the Day: Simona Halep extends grass-court winning streak to 10 matches in a row, 17 sets in a row
The 2019 Wimbledon champion has picked up right where she left off three years ago in Birmingham this week.
Simona Halep has picked up right where she left off during her run to the Wimbledon title in 2019 in Birmingham this week, extending her grass-court winning streak to 10 matches in a row today with a 6-4, 6-1 quarterfinal victory over Britain's Katie Boulter.
She’s also won her last 17 sets in a row on this surface, winning 16 of those 17 sets by a scoreline of 6-4 or easier—she was pushed to a tie-break in the first set of her quarterfinal victory over Zhang Shuai at Wimbledon three years ago.
The grass-court season was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Halep missed the 2021 grass-court season—including, sadly, her title defense at the All-England Club—due to a calf injury, which also kept her out of Roland Garros.
HALEP ON GRASS SINCE START OF 2019 WIMBLEDON: 10-0
d. Sasnovich in 2019 Wimbledon 1st Rd, 6-4, 7-5
d. Buzarnescu in 2019 Wimbledon 2nd Rd, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
d. Azarenka in 2019 Wimbledon 3rd Rd, 6-3, 6-1
d. Gauff in 2019 Wimbledon 4th Rd, 6-3, 6-3
d. Zhang in 2019 Wimbledon QFs, 7-6(4) 6-1
d. Svitolina in 2019 Wimbledon SFs, 6-1, 6-3
d. S.Williams in 2019 Wimbledon F, 6-2, 6-2
d. Tsurenko in 2022 Birmingham 1st Rd, 6-1, 6-4
d. Dart in 2022 Birmingham 2nd Rd, 6-3, 6-2
d. Boulter in 2022 Birmingham QFs, 6-4, 6-1
Halep's last loss on grass came to Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals of Eastbourne in 2019, just a few days before she would begin her run to the Wimbledon title.
Awaiting the Romanian in the semifinals will be Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia.