Tennis Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

Which French player dominated women's tennis in the 1920s, losing only a handful of matches in her whole career, and became a genuine celebrity for her athletic, balletic style and for scandalising Wimbledon with a calf-length dress, bare forearms and a sip of brandy at the changeover?

Question 2

What is the name for the score reached when both players have won three points in a game, so that one of them must then win two points in a row, the first to take a point going to 'advantage' and needing one more to win the game?

Question 3

What structure was added to Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2009, and its Number One Court in 2019, so that play could continue through the London rain that had for over a century caused long delays and ruined schedules?

Question 4

Which Swiss player won 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including eight at Wimbledon, spent a record 237 consecutive weeks ranked world number one, and was admired above all for the seemingly effortless fluency of his movement and his one-handed backhand?

Question 5

What is the name for the pause of up to 90 seconds when players switch ends of the court after every odd-numbered game, sitting on courtside benches to drink, towel down and, sometimes controversially, receive coaching signals?

Question 6

Which stadium, the main show court at the Australian Open, opened in 1988 with a retractable roof, the first at a Grand Slam venue, and is named after the only man to win the calendar-year sweep of majors twice?

Question 7

What visible countdown device, rolled out across the tour from 2018, gives a server 25 seconds between points, with an umpire able to dock a fault or a warning if the time runs out before the ball is struck?

Question 8

What is the name for the Grand Slam event in which each team is made up of one man and one woman, the last of the traditional five championship disciplines alongside the men's and women's singles and doubles?

Question 9

What is the name of the multi-camera ball-tracking system, introduced to top-level tennis in 2006, that lets a player challenge a line call and shows an animated reconstruction of where the ball bounced, to within a few millimetres?

Question 10

Which Belgian won the 2009 US Open as an unranked wildcard, less than two years after retiring and having a baby, then won it again the next year and the 2011 Australian Open, becoming the first mother to win a major in decades?

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About Tennis

Tennis grew from a medieval indoor game of kings into a global professional sport with four great championships and a year-round tour. This quiz covers it in eighty questions. Each describes a player, a Grand Slam, a piece of scoring or jargon, a venue, a rule, a person or a trophy, and asks you to name it from four choices, then explains what it is and the record or the row attached to it. Every answer is a single name chosen from four, so nothing rests on remembering exact scorelines, and both the men's and the women's game are given equal weight.

The first pack is the essentials: the four majors, Wimbledon on grass, the French Open on clay, the US Open and the Australian Open on hard courts; the era-defining champions Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Serena Williams and Steffi Graf; the meaning of the Grand Slam itself; the odd scoring words, deuce, love, the tiebreak, the ace; Billie Jean King and Rod Laver; the Open Era; a break of serve; Margaret Court's all-time record; and the Big Three.

The second pack widens out. More men, Sampras, Agassi, Borg, McEnroe, Becker, Murray, and the young pair Alcaraz and Sinner. More women, Navratilova, Evert, Seles, Henin, Sharapova, Osaka, Swiatek. The team competitions, the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup. The vocabulary and machinery, the let, Hawk-Eye, the seedings, serve and volley, the walkover, the fifteen-thirty-forty count, the changeover, the roof, the polyester string, the shot clock. The pioneers Suzanne Lenglen, Arthur Ashe and Fred Perry. The Bryan brothers and the Woodies. And the code violations, the grunt debate, the fastest serve, the Channel Slam and Wimbledon's white-clothing rule.

The third pack is history and culture: real tennis and Major Wingfield's patent; equal prize money; the 1973 Battle of the Sexes; the eleven-hour Isner-Mahut match; the umpire's chair; the doping drug meldonium; the Wimbledon overnight queue; the career Golden Slam; the ATP Finals and the Laver Cup; the court's lines and dimensions; the ball; the arenas named for Laver and Ashe; the Sunshine Double; the Musketeers' Cup; and the mixed doubles. Because a photograph of a player or a famous arena almost always gives the answer away, images are used only where a court surface, a wooden racket or a neutral scene does not, and every figure has been checked. A few things people get muddled also get straightened out: that Margaret Court's record 24 majors were mostly won in the weak amateur era; that 'love' for zero probably has nothing to do with an egg; that the Olympic tennis event vanished for 64 years and only returned in 1988; and that Wimbledon, not the US Open, was the last major to pay women and men equally, in 2007.