Tennis Trivia Questions

  1. What is the only circumstance where you can reach over the net and hit the ball?

  2. Who is the only player that was won a grand slam on all three surfaces?

  3. The US Open is at Flushing Meadows (before that Forrest Hills), the French at Roland Garos, Wimbledon at Wimbledon, what is the name of the location where the Australian Open is played?

  4. What famed tennis tournament's singles title was Fred Perry the last Englishman to win?

  5. What colored tennis balls are used at Wimbledon?

  6. What country did the U.S. defeat in the first Davis Cup tennis victory in 1900?

  7. What fearless patriot screamed "America" at an umpire after what he thought was a bad call in a 1984 Davis Cup tennis match?

  8. What sportsman called Czechoslovakia's Tomas Smid a communist during a 1983 tennis match?

  9. What sports racket allows no more than 50 pimples per square centimeter?

  10. What net game sees its women's world amateur champions receive the Uber Cup?

  11. Who did John MacEnroe dispose of in the 1984 Wimbledon men's singles final?

  12. What sentimental Sunday in 1973 saw Boggy Riggs defeat Margaret Court in straight sets?

  13. What game sports the biggest court?

  14. What Australian was the first to win two grand slams?

  15. Who was the first man was the first to win Tennis' Grand Slam in 1938?

  16. Who was the first American to win Wimbledon's men's singles title?

  17. What women's tennis star announced plans for a comeback at age 70?

  18. What tennis giant and would-be Shakespearean did a 1951 poll rate as the No. 1 of all times?

  19. What tennis star of the 20's and thirty's was dubbed "Little Miss Poker Face"?

  20. What female tennis star lost only four matches from 1952 to 1954?

  21. Whose lace panties sparked a revolution in on-court tennis attire in 1949?

  22. What professional tennis player drilled a serve measured at 163.6 miles an hour in 1931?

  23. What direction should courts be laid out in: north-south or east-west?

  24. What tennis star was the first to win the AP Athlete of the Year Award twice?

  25. Who gave the U.S, its first Davis Cup in ten years in 1937 by upsetting Germany's Baron Gotfried Von Cram?
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