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60 free Roger Federer trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Roger Federer trivia quiz covers the whole career of the Swiss maestro, from the ball boy at the Basel Swiss Indoors to the tearful doubles farewell beside Rafael Nadal at the 2022 Laver Cup. The easy questions are the ones any sports fan can answer: his country, his signature one-handed backhand, how many majors he won and where he won most of them. From there the set moves through the milestones: the 2001 upset of Pete Sampras, the first title in Milan, the 2003 Wimbledon breakthrough, the 237-week reign at No. 1, the 2009 French Open that completed the career Grand Slam and the 2018 Australian Open that made him the first man to 20. The harder end is for real tennis obsessives: his childhood coaches Adolf Kacovsky and Peter Carter, the SABR, the switch to a 97-square-inch racket, the head-to-heads with Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and Roddick, the Olympic gold and silver, the Davis Cup win, the 2008 Wimbledon final score, the Swiss coins bearing his face, his South African mother, his military exemption and the shoe company that helped make him a billionaire. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries for Federer, his rivalries and his signature matches before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Tennis, Novak Djokovic and Wimbledon quizzes next.
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Q 01Federer was born on 8 August of which year?
1981
He was born in Basel and turned professional in 1998.
Q 02How many Grand Slam men's singles titles did Federer win?
20
At the 2018 Australian Open he became the first man to reach that number.
Q 03How many Wimbledon singles titles did Federer win, a men's record?
8
He also shares the Open Era record of five US Open men's titles.
Q 04For how many consecutive weeks did Federer hold the world No. 1 ranking, a record?
237
His total of 310 weeks at the top is second only to Novak Djokovic.
Q 05How many ATP Tour singles titles did Federer win in his career?
103
Only Jimmy Connors has won more since the Open Era began in 1968.
Q 06Whom did Federer beat in the final to win his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003?
Mark Philippoussis
He beat Roddick in the semifinals and dedicated the title to his late childhood coach.
Q 07Which four-time defending champion did the 19-year-old Federer beat at Wimbledon in 2001?
Pete Sampras
It was his international breakthrough, ending the American's 31-match Wimbledon streak.
Q 08In which city did Federer win his first ATP singles title, in 2001?
Milan
He beat Julien Boutter in the final of the indoor event.
Q 09Federer completed the career Grand Slam at the 2009 French Open by beating whom in the final?
Robin Söderling
The Swede had earlier knocked out four-time champion Nadal, opening the door.
Q 10Federer broke Sampras's record of 14 majors at Wimbledon 2009, winning the fifth set by what score?
16-14
It was the longest Grand Slam final ever in games played; Andy Roddick was the opponent.
Q 11How many matches did Federer and Rafael Nadal play against each other between 2004 and 2019?
40
Nadal won 24 to Federer's 16, dominating on clay while Federer led on grass and hard courts.
Q 12What was the fifth-set score when Nadal beat Federer in the 2008 Wimbledon final?
9-7
The 4-hour-48-minute match is widely called the greatest ever played.
Q 13How many consecutive Wimbledon titles had Federer won before losing the 2008 final?
Five
The run from 2003 to 2007 equalled Björn Borg's record.
Q 14What was Federer's record grass-court winning streak, ended by the 2008 Wimbledon final?
Q 21Which champion handed the ball boy Federer a medal after the 1993 Swiss Indoors final in Basel?
Michael Stich
Federer later won the tournament a record number of times himself.
Q 22Which sport did Federer give up at age 12 to focus solely on tennis?
Football
He grew up supporting FC Basel and later unveiled the Swiss national team's World Cup jersey.
Q 23Whom did Federer beat in the 1998 Wimbledon boys' singles final?
Irakli Labadze
He also won the boys' doubles that year with Olivier Rochus.
With whom did Federer win Olympic doubles gold at Beijing 2008?
65
It stretched back to June 2003 and remains the Open Era men's record.
Q 15With which illness was Federer diagnosed in early 2008, sapping his fitness that season?
Mononucleosis
He may have been suffering from it since December 2007.
Q 16Who was Federer's coach from age 10, whom he credited for his 'entire technique and coolness'?
Peter Carter
The Australian died in a car crash in 2002, a loss Federer called a wake-up call.
Q 17Which veteran Czech coach gave Federer his first tennis instruction at the Old Boys club in Basel?
Adolf Kacovsky
He said Federer picked up new skills in three or four tries while others needed weeks.
Q 18Federer's childhood idols Edberg, Becker and Sampras all shared which stroke that he adopted?
A one-handed backhand
He later hired Edberg himself as coach in 2014.
Q 19At what age did Federer first play tennis, at his parents' company courts?
Three
Both parents worked for Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals in Basel.
Q 20From which country does Federer's mother Lynette come?
South Africa
He holds dual Swiss and South African citizenship as a result.
Stan Wawrinka
The same pair led Switzerland to its first Davis Cup title in 2014.
Q 25Who beat Federer in the 2012 Olympic singles final, denying him a career Golden Slam?
Andy Murray
Federer had beaten Murray in the Wimbledon final on the same courts a few weeks earlier.
Q 26Whom did Federer beat to clinch Switzerland's first Davis Cup title in 2014?
Richard Gasquet
The final was played in Lille against France.
Q 27Whom did Federer beat in the 2017 Wimbledon final to claim a record eighth title without dropping a set?
Marin Čilić
At 35 he became the oldest man to win Wimbledon in the Open Era.
Q 28How old was Federer when he returned to the ATP world No. 1 ranking in February 2018?
36
He returned to the top 14 years after first getting there, becoming the oldest man to hold the ranking at that time.
Q 29How many times did Federer win the Australian Open?
Six
His 2018 win equalled the then record shared by Roy Emerson and Novak Djokovic.
Q 30Federer and Djokovic met 50 times. What was Djokovic's winning margin in the head-to-head?
27-23
They are tied 4-4 on clay; Djokovic won all three of their Wimbledon finals.