22
9.
Michael Chang
21
Andy Roddick
Clay
#
1.
Guillermo Vilas
45
2.
Thomas Muster
40
3.
Rafael Nadal
36
4.
Manuel Orantes
30
Björn Borg
6.
Ilie Năstase
28
/ Ivan Lendl
8.
José Luis Clerc
21
9.
Mats Wilander
20
10.
Andrés Gómez
16
Carlos Moyá
Grass
#
1.
Roger Federer
12
2.
Jimmy Connors
10
Pete Sampras
4.
John McEnroe
8
5.
Boris Becker
7
Lleyton Hewitt
7
7.
Björn Borg
6
Vijay Amritraj
9.
Rod Laver
5
John Newcombe
Ken Rosewall
Johan Kriek
Stefan Edberg
/ Greg Rusedski
Andy Roddick
Carpet
#
1.
John McEnroe
43
2.
Jimmy Connors
39
3.
/ Ivan Lendl
33
4.
Boris Becker
26
5.
Björn Borg
22
6.
Arthur Ashe
18
7.
Rod Laver
15
Pete Sampras
9.
Goran Ivanišević
14
10.
Stan Smith
11
Stefan Edberg
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
…
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Professional Tennis Sports Trivia Questions
1. Who has won the most career singles titles in professional men’s tennis?
2. Which professional tennis player won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam doubles titles and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles?
3. Five professional tennis players (3 women and 2 men) have won the Grand Slam in singles. (Winning all four majors in the same calendar year.) Can you name them?
4. Jimmy Connors won two Grand Slam doubles titles in his career. Who was his partner for both titles?
5. Bjorn Borg, one of the greatest tennis players of all time won 11 Grand Slam titles. Which one(s) didn’t he win?
6. Who is the only man to win the U.S. Open singles championship on grass, clay and hard court surfaces?
7. John McEnroe’s famous line, “You cannot be serious” was directed at an umpire in 1981 during what event?
8. Who is the only men’s professional tennis player to win at least 90% of his matches in a given year, in four separate years?
9. Which female professional tennis player won more French Open singles titles than anyone else?
10. Who is the only woman to win all four Grand Slam singles titles at least 4 times each?
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Added by Yulanda B at 12:34pm on December 15, 2010
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Professional Tennis Sports Trivia Questions
1. Who has won the most career singles titles in professional men’s tennis?
2. Which professional tennis player won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam doubles titles and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles?
3. Five professional tennis players (3 women and 2 men) have won the Grand Slam in singles. (Winning all four majors in the same calendar year.) Can you name them?
4. Jimmy Connors won two Grand Slam doubles titles in his career. Who was his partner for both titles?
5. Bjorn Borg, one of the greatest tennis players of all time won 11 Grand Slam titles. Which one(s) didn’t he win?
6. Who is the only man to win the U.S. Open singles championship on grass, clay and hard court surfaces?
7. John McEnroe’s famous line, “You cannot be serious” was directed at an umpire in 1981 during what event?
8. Who is the only men’s professional tennis player to win at least 90% of his matches in a given year, in four separate years?
9. Which female professional tennis player won more French Open singles titles than anyone else?
10. Who is the only woman to win all four Grand Slam singles titles at least 4 times each?
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OK, this is in no way a replacement for playing on a court but it sounds like things are getting closer. With two daughters in the house, I'm not sure i'll be introducing this into the Wii gear in…
Once a year, shortly after the finals, the Chairman invites friends to play and socialize, who, like himself, have worked diligently to make the Championships…
Roy Emerson -- Fourth round
Pete Sampras -- First round (Sampras's losses have asterisks. The first-round loss was on clay, which was never an upset for the big-hitting American. He did lose in the third round of the 1996 Australian Open while in his prime, but that was to Mark Philippoussis, who later became a top 10 player and two-time Slam finalist. If Rosol makes a similar rise, another reevaluation maybe needed.)
Bjorn Borg -- quarterfinal
Rod Laver -- fourth round
Nadal has them all beat. But even players who experienced less success didn't lose to No. 100 players during their top years. Jimmy Connors never did, nor did John McEnroe. Andre Agassi lost to No. 281 Doug Flach at Wimbledon in 1996, but even without knowing what Agassi was going through at the time (as we do know), nobody was ever going to compare Agassi's consistency with Nadal's.
The three most famous upsets in recent Grand Slam history are Sampras losing to George Bastl in the second round of Wimbledon in 2002, Lori McNeil over Steffi Graf in 1994 and Peter Doohan over Boris Becker in 1987. But Sampras was one Slam away from retirement and two years away from his last major title. It's not even in the same ballpark. Another is Lori McNeil's defeat of No. 1 Steffi Graf at Wimbledon in 1994. This is the most comparable to Rosol/Nadal since Graf was still at the height of her powers (she won six of her next seven Slams after the loss). McNeil was no slouch though. She had defeated Graf two years before at the WTA Championships and was a former Slam semifinalist at the U.S. Open in 1987 (having defeated Chris Evert to get there). Graf > Nadal. But Rosol <<< McNeil. As for Becker? Please. He was a brash young pup at the time, not an established veteran champion.
There was another upset involving Nadal that could qualify.: As good as he's been, Rafa isn't invulnerable on grass. He was on his dominant surface of clay when No. 25 Robin Soderling beat him at the 2009 French Open. We later learned that Nadal was suffering from injuries and family difficulties, while Soderling became a top-five player. Still, at the time, this was equally shocking.
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