Tennis Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which Swede won six Grand Slam singles titles in the late 1980s and early 90s with a graceful serve-and-volley game built on a kicking second serve and superb reflexes at the net, and had a long Wimbledon rivalry with Boris Becker?

Question 2

What is the current name, since 2020, of the top international team competition in women's tennis, founded in 1963 as the Federation Cup and long known simply as the Fed Cup?

Question 3

Which identical-twin American pair is the most successful men's doubles team in history, winning 16 Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold, and celebrating points with a mid-air chest bump?

Question 4

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 5

Which Grand Slam tournament, the oldest in the sport, dating from 1877, is the only major still played on grass, is run by a private members' club in a south-west London suburb, and enforces an almost entirely white dress code on its players?

Question 6

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 7

Which first-round contest at Wimbledon in 2010 became the longest in the sport's history, lasting 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days and finishing 70 games to 68 in a fifth set that alone took over eight hours?

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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.