Tennis lukkha quiz

Tennis Quiz
Kaushik Nagaraj
Yash Dhoble
Anuj Shetty

1. Let’s begin with something easy :)
This grand slam tournament was the first event to
offer equal prize money for men and women.
They were the first to introduce the tie-break
system and use a tie-break in the deciding set. It
has also been conducted on 3 surfaces over the
years. What slam are we talking about?
X holds the record of winning this slam on all 3
surfaces. Identify X

2. What does this graph signify?

Singles ranking composite chart of Federer, Nadal
and Djokovic

3. Identify the logo and the player in the logo.

This is the logo of the Australian Open. The
tournament’s logo is the distinct serve of former
world no.1 Stefan Edberg!

4. X has a record of losing 3 consecutive Grand
Slam Finals. Coincidentally, he lost all three to the
same player Y. Identify X and Y.

X- Rafael Nadal Y - Novak
Djokovic

5. Tennis player, X, lost 16 times in a row to Y. He
then finally won a match against him and famously
said,
“And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody defeats
X 17 times in a row”
Identify X,Y

X - Vitas Gerulaitis Y - Jimmy
Connors

6. X has won a total of 42 Grand Slam titles and
ended her career on a winning streak of 470
(singles) matches. She has also won 7 Paralympics
medals and 22 year-end championships.
Identify X.

7. Connect this exhaustive list:
Roger Federer - (2009)
Rafa Nadal - (2008, 2010)
Bjorn Borg - (1978-80)
Rod Laver - (1969)

They are the only players in the Open Era to win a
Channel Slam (winning Roland Garros & Wimbledon
back-to-back), which is considered a daunting task
given the drastic change in playing surfaces.

Rufus the Hawk is a Harris Hawk used by the All
England Club to keep pigeons away from their
venue. Rufus has been scaring away the birds for 15
years, taking over from the previous hawk, Hamish

9. Connect and complete the following list
Steffi Graf
Rafael Nadal
Serena Williams
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
Serena Williams and Venus Williams
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan

Andre Agassi
Connection : Career Golden Slam Winners

10. Connect and complete the following list :
●Sampras - 6 times
●Federer, Connors - 5 times
●McEnroe, Lendl, Djokovic - 4 times
●Nadal - ________

3 times.
Connection: This is the list of the players who have
held the year-end no.1 ranking the maximum
number of times. Rafa Nadal has been the year-end
no.1 in 2008, 2010, 2013.

11. Connect the three players in the image below :P

Federer, Female Federer and Baby Federer

12. This one-time Wimbledon champion is known for
her very unorthodox style of playing - double handed
backhands and double handed forehands. She also
won Wimbledon without losing a set. Who are we
talking about?

13.
Not tennis balls for sure! If you can get what these
are, then identifying a former world no.1 should not
be too difficult. Who?

Maria Sharapova
The image in the previous
slide is that of Sugarpova
sporty tennis gumballs (a
candy business started by
Sharapova)

14. “Kokkinakis banged your girl-friend.
Sorry to tell you that, mate.”
X delivered this scathing comment to Y, in reference
to his girlfriend Z.
Identify X,Y,Z.

X - Nick Kyrgios
Y - Stan Wawrinka
Z - Donna Vekic

15. “To me, that’s not tennis. Either I come out with
football shoes or I invite Chuck Norris to advise me
how to play on this court.”
Who made this statement and what court is he
talking about?

Novak Djokovic, expressing his displeasure over the
extremely slippery conditions of the blue clay in the
2012 Madrid masters

16. Andy Murray began his Wimbledon 2015
campaign against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan.
There was something very unique about that
contest. What was it?

Rare occasion when both the players were coached
by female coaches.
Murray was coached by Amelie Mauresmo while
Kukushkin was coached by his wife Anastasia

17. The origin of X, which adorns the top of the lid of
the actual cup could date back to the tradition where
captains in the Navy coming back from the sea put X
on the gates of their home.
What is X and which cup are we talking about here?

Pineapple atop the Wimbledon men’s singles trophy

18. Identify this gruesome incident which happened
during the 1983 US Open:

Richard Wertheim, was an American tennis
linesman, who suffered a fatal injury when Stefan
Edberg sent an errant serve directly into his groin.
The official had been sitting in a chair and officiating
at the center line when the blow knocked him
backward. He was rushed to the hospital and died
after 5 days.

Margaret Court - 2 times
Doris Hart - 1 time
Martina Navratilova - 1 time

They are the only 3 players to have won a Career
Boxed Set (winning singles, doubles and mixed
doubles at all 4 Grand slams over the course of an
entire career). No male has achieved this!

20. Connect and complete the following list:
●Mark Edmondson (1976)
●Yannick Noah (1983)
●__________________
●Andy Roddick (2003)

Andy Murray (2013)
Connection: They were the last players to win their
home slams.

21. Andre Agassi, in his autobiography Open, has
accused X of trying to break his concentration by
blowing kisses to Brooke Shields (his girlfriend)
during the ‘95 US Open Semifinal, and voiced regret
that his final loss on tour came to the similarly
named Y. Identify X and Y.

X - Boris Becker Y - Benjamin
Becker

22. X has the record of being world number 1 for
the most number of weeks (quite obvious,no?)
while Y has the record of being world number 1
for the least number of weeks.
Identify X and Y (also the number of weeks)

X - Roger Federer
302 Weeks
Y - Patrick Rafter
1 week
Fun fact : Rafter was the first ever opponent of Federer in
the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament ( French
Open ‘99)

23. Give the funda for this exhaustive list:
●Nikolay Davydenko
●Dominik Hrbaty
●Alex Corretja
●Dustin Brown
●Chris Guccione
●Joachim Johansson
●Olivier Mutis
●Paradorn Srichaphan
●Nick Kyrgios

Players with winning records (positive H2H) against
Rafa Nadal. Most of them are one-match wonders,
testimony to the dominance of Nadal!

●Rod Laver (1969)
●Roger Federer (2006-07, 2009)
●Novak Djokovic (2015)

They are the only 3 players in the Open era to reach
all four Major finals in a calendar year

25. Connect and complete this exhaustive list:
●Roger Federer (2007)
●Novak Djokovic (2009, 2011, 2013)
●Juan Martin del Potro (2009)
●____________ (2015)

Fabio Fognini
Connection: These are the only players to beat
Nadal 3 or more times in a calendar year

26. An ATP World Tour Award is named after player
X. Y has won this award a record 10 times. X
incidentally happens to be Y's coach. ID X and Y

X- Stefan Edberg Y- Roger Federer

27. What did Roger Federer name the cow?

Juliette
Fun fact: This cow was gifted to Roger Federer on
his return to Switzerland (2003 Swiss Open in
Gstaad) after his Wimbledon 2003 triumph as he
was the first Grand slam winner that the country had
produced

28. Identify the player in the image and his unique
achievement:

Marcelo Rios (nicknamed El Chino)
He was the only player who held the world no.1 spot
without winning a single grand slam title

29. Where is this statue located and what does it
depict?

Located at Stade Roland Garros in between Court
Philippe Chatrier and Court no.1, the square is
surrounded by statues of the Four Musketeers of
French Tennis, who led France to 6 straight Davis
Cup wins (1927-32). At the center of the square is a
Davis Cup replica. At its creation, the Roland Garros
Trophy was renamed Coupes de Mousquetaires in
honour of the quartet.

30. Leonardo Lavalle Moreno won the boys’ singles
title at Wimbledon in 1985. There was something
very unique about his win that year. What was it?

It was the same year that Boris Becker won the
men’s title. Interestingly, he was younger than
Moreno!

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