Roger Federer Trivia
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57 free Roger Federer trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 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 01With whom did Federer win the 2001 Hopman Cup?
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis was then the world No. 1 and the teenage Federer her junior partner; 17 years later he won the event again as the senior half of the team, with Belinda Bencic.
Q 02Whom did Federer beat in the 2005 US Open final?
Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi, 35, took a set off the defending champion before fading; it was the last Grand Slam final of his career, and he retired a year later.
Q 03Who beat Federer in his last singles match, at Wimbledon 2021?
Hubert Hurkacz
Hubert Hurkacz won in straight sets and took the last one 6-0, the first set Federer had ever lost to love at Wimbledon.
Q 04At which Ivy League college did Federer give a 2024 commencement speech about winning only 54% of his points?
Dartmouth
Dartmouth: he told graduates he had won almost 80% of his 1,526 singles matches but barely more than half the points, so even champions must learn to shrug off a lost one.
Q 05When Federer retired, only which man had more Open Era singles titles?
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors won 109. Federer finished six short after knee operations kept him to a handful of tournaments in his last three seasons.
Q 06Whom did Federer beat in the final to win his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003?
Mark Philippoussis
Mark Philippoussis lost in straight sets, twelve months after Federer had been knocked out of the same tournament in the very first round.
Q 07Which four-time defending champion did the 19-year-old Federer beat at Wimbledon in 2001?
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras had won 31 straight matches at Wimbledon; the five-set upset ended that run, and the two never played each other on tour again.
Q 08In which city did Federer win his first ATP singles title, in 2001?
Milan
Milan: he beat Julien Boutter there at 19, after losing both of the tour finals he had reached the year before.
Q 09Federer completed the career Grand Slam at the 2009 French Open by beating whom in the final?
Robin Söderling
Robin Söderling had stunned four-time champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, Nadal's first defeat at the French Open after 31 straight wins.
Q 10Whom did Federer beat 16-14 in the fifth set of the 2009 Wimbledon final to win a record 15th major?
Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick did not lose his serve once until the very last game, the 30th of the longest fifth set a major final had seen.
Q 11Which rival won 24 of his 40 career matches against Federer?
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal built the lead on clay, winning 14 of their 16 matches there, while Federer came out ahead on both grass and hard courts.
Q 12Who ended Federer's run of five straight US Open titles?
Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro was 20 and twice trailed by a set in the final, but he won two tie-breaks and then ran away with the fifth set 6-2.
Q 13Whose run of five straight Wimbledon titles did Federer match in 2007?
Björn Borg
Björn Borg won every year from 1976 to 1980, and his streak ended just as Federer's would: with defeat in the following year's final.
Q 21Which German won the 1993 Swiss Indoors in Basel, where a 12-year-old Federer worked as a ball boy?
Michael Stich
Michael Stich took the title that week; thirteen years later the former ball boy won his home tournament himself, the first of ten victories there.
Q 22Which sport did Federer give up at age 12 to focus solely on tennis?
Football
Football: a junior at FC Concordia Basel, he chose tennis because he preferred a sport where winning or losing was down to him and not to teammates.
Q 23Which women's great did Federer face for the first time in a mixed doubles match at the 2019 Hopman Cup?
Serena Williams
Serena Williams and Federer had spent nearly two decades at the top of tennis without ever sharing a court; he and his partner won, in front of a record crowd in Perth.
Q 14At which German grass-court tournament did Federer win a record ten singles titles?
Halle
Halle: it is played in June as a warm-up for Wimbledon, so he returned almost every summer and won it ten times between 2003 and 2019.
Q 15With which illness was Federer diagnosed in early 2008, sapping his fitness that season?
Mononucleosis
Mononucleosis: he may have carried it since December, and weeks before the diagnosis his run of ten straight Grand Slam finals ended in Melbourne.
Q 16Which Australian coached the young Federer at his Basel club and stayed his mentor after he turned professional?
Peter Carter
Peter Carter died in a car crash in 2002, leaving Federer distraught for months; a year later he dedicated his first Wimbledon title to him.
Q 17Federer's charitable foundation, set up in 2003, mainly funds which cause for children in poverty?
Education
Education: Federer set the foundation up in the year of his first Wimbledon title because he and his parents wanted to give something back.
Q 18Which stroke, used by all three of his boyhood tennis idols, did Federer adopt as a child?
A one-handed backhand
A one-handed backhand: his first coach was a fan of the shot as well, so he learned it from the start and kept it for his whole career.
Q 19Who upset Federer in the singles quarter-finals at the 2008 Olympics?
James Blake
James Blake had lost all eight of their earlier matches; Federer still left Beijing with a gold medal, won in the doubles days later.
Q 20From which country does Federer's mother Lynette come?
South Africa
South Africa: citing that family tie, he began backing a South African children's charity in 2004 and flew out a year later to meet the children it helped.
Q 24With whom did Federer win Olympic doubles gold at Beijing 2008?
Stan Wawrinka
Stan Wawrinka and Federer won the gold only days after Federer had been upset in the singles quarter-finals, rescuing his Games.
Q 25Who beat Federer in the 2012 Olympic singles final, denying him a career Golden Slam?
Andy Murray
Andy Murray had lost the Wimbledon final to Federer on the same Centre Court only four weeks earlier.
Q 26Whom did Federer beat to clinch Switzerland's first Davis Cup title in 2014?
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet won only eight games, two days after Federer had himself been thrashed in straight sets by Gaël Monfils on the opening day.
Q 27Whom did Federer beat in the 2017 Wimbledon final to claim a record eighth title without dropping a set?
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić had swept Federer aside in straight sets on his way to the 2014 US Open title, but here, hampered by foot blisters, he won just eight games.
Q 28In which city did Federer win his 100th ATP singles title in 2019?
Dubai
Dubai: he beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, weeks after the 20-year-old Greek had knocked him out of the Australian Open.
Q 29Who lost the 2004 Australian Open final to Federer?
Marat Safin
Marat Safin had knocked out the defending champion on his way to the final; a day later Federer was world No. 1 for the first time, the start of a record 237 straight weeks.
Q 30Which rival beat Federer in all three of their Wimbledon finals?
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic was a point from defeat at 8-7, 40-15 in the fifth set in 2019, then won the match in a tie-break at 12-12, a rule brought in that very year.