Tennis Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

By what nickname were the Australian left-and-right-handed doubles pair Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde known, a team that won 11 Grand Slam titles together in the 1990s, including six Wimbledons, and an Olympic gold?

Question 2

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 3

Which stadium, opened in 1997 as the main court of the US Open, is the largest purpose-built tennis arena in the world, seating nearly 24,000, and is named after the first Black man to win a Grand Slam singles title?

Question 4

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 5

What is the name for the period of tennis history beginning in 1968, when the Grand Slam tournaments and other events were opened to professional players who had previously been banned from them, ending decades of 'shamateurism'?

Question 6

Which German player won 22 Grand Slam singles titles and, in 1988, became the only player of either sex to win all four majors and the Olympic singles gold in the same calendar year, a feat christened the Golden Slam?

Question 7

Which Australian holds the all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles, most of them won in the 1960s and early 70s, and completed the calendar-year sweep of all four in 1970?

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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.