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179 free Tennis trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
94 free tennis trivia questions with answers. Are you a tennis enthusiast? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive 179-question tennis trivia quiz covering everything from legendary players to historic matches and tournament records. Whether you're a casual fan or a dedicated follower of the sport, this quiz will challenge your understanding of tennis history, rules, and iconic moments.
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Q 01The tennis term 'Grand Slam' was borrowed in the 1930s from which card game?
Bridge
Bridge players score a grand slam by taking all 13 tricks; a 1933 New York Times column used the image when Jack Crawford was one title short of sweeping the four majors.
Q 02The red 'clay' of the French Open courts is really a thin top layer of what crushed material?
Brick
Brick dust, rolled and watered into a thin red skin, is all that covers the white limestone beneath, so the French Open's famous clay courts contain almost no clay.
Q 03Which officials did Wimbledon replace with electronic calling on every court in 2025?
Line judges
Line judges gave way to cameras and recorded voices calling 'out'; the chair umpires stayed on, and the new role of match assistant was created alongside them.
Q 04What is the crowd-pleasing shot called when a player, running back from the net, hits the ball through their own legs?
Tweener
Tweener is short for 'between the legs'; Argentina's Guillermo Vilas pioneered the shot in the 1970s, which is why Spanish speakers still call it the 'Gran Willy'.
Q 05Which male player held the record for most Grand Slam singles titles at the end of 2025?
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic won his first major in 2008, when Roger Federer already had 12, yet he went on to pass every rival and reach 24 in 2023.
Q 06Through 2026, which man had won the most Wimbledon men's singles titles?
Roger Federer
Roger Federer took his record eighth in 2017 without losing a set, a year after a knee injury forced him to abandon the second half of his 2016 season.
Q 07Which American is the only player to win the US Open on grass, clay and hard courts?
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors won it on grass in 1974, on clay in 1976 and on hard courts from 1978, because the tournament changed its surface twice in the space of five seasons.
Q 08In no-ad scoring, what settles a game that reaches 40–40?
One deciding point
One deciding point settles it, with the receivers choosing which side to return from; in normal scoring a player has to go two points clear after 40-40 to win the game.
Q 09Which of the four Grand Slam tournaments was the first to offer equal prize money for men and women?
US Open
US Open organisers paid both 1973 champions $25,000 after the 1972 women's winner, who had received $15,000 less than the men's, said she would not come back unless the money was equal.
Q 10What is the standard score in games that triggers a tie-break in a tennis set?
6-6
6-6 first triggered a tie-break at a major at the 1970 US Open; its 'sudden death' version was the best of nine points, so 4-4 was set point for both players at once.
Q 11Which tennis player is known as the 'King of Clay'?
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal won 14 French Open titles on it; the tournament put up a statue of him in 2021, while he was still playing, and set a plaque into its centre court in 2025.
Q 12In which country are the courts of the Monte-Carlo Masters actually located?
France
France is the answer because the Monte Carlo Country Club sits in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a French town on Monaco's border, so the principality's tournament is played abroad.
Q 13Iga Świątek was the first player representing which country to win a Grand Slam singles title?
Poland
Poland had never had a major singles champion until the 2020 French Open, which the 19-year-old won without losing a set or more than five games in any match.
Q 21In which city is the Australian Open played?
Melbourne
Melbourne became the permanent home only after decades in which the championship moved between Australian cities and was twice staged in New Zealand, in 1906 and 1912.
Q 22What kind of bird is Rufus, employed at Wimbledon to scare away the pigeons?
A hawk
A hawk, specifically a Harris's hawk: when Rufus was stolen from his handler's car during the 2012 tournament, a public appeal followed and he was handed in three days later.
Q 23What is a serve that clips the net but lands in the service box, requiring a replay, called?
Let
Let is an old word for an obstacle, the one that survives in 'without let or hindrance': the net got in the way, so the serve is simply replayed.
Q 14In which New York City borough is the US Open played?
Queens
Queens has been home to both of its modern venues: the tournament moved in 1978 from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows, parkland created for the 1939 World's Fair.
Q 15In tennis, when both players have scored three points each in a game, what is the score called?
Deuce
Deuce comes from the Old French word for 'two': once the score is level at 40-40, a player has to win two points in a row to take the game.
Q 16The first Wimbledon, won by Spencer Gore in 1877, was staged by a club founded for which other lawn game?
Croquet
Croquet was the All England Club's only game until 1875; it staged the 1877 tennis tournament to pay for repairs to the pony-drawn roller that kept its lawns flat.
Q 17Which Grand Slam singles matches are best of five sets?
Men's only
Men's only: women play best of three at every major, although the final of the women's season-ending championships was best of five sets from 1984 to 1998.
Q 18Which Australian won Wimbledon in 1971 and again in 1980, the second time as a mother?
Evonne Goolagong
Evonne Goolagong, a Wiradjuri girl from the wheat town of Barellan, was first noticed peering through the fence of the local tennis club; in 1980 she became the first mother to win the title in 66 years.
Q 19In tennis, what is the term for a legal serve that the receiver fails to touch with their racket?
Ace
Ace is the same word as the one-spot playing card, from the Latin for a single unit.
Q 20Who was the first British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon singles title in 2013?
Andy Murray
Andy Murray had lost his first four Grand Slam finals, the last at Wimbledon in 2012; a year later he won it in straight sets, the first British man to do so since Fred Perry in 1936.
Q 24Which man was the first to complete a career Golden Slam in singles?
Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi completed it at the 1999 French Open, where he lost the first two sets of the final 6-1, 6-2 before coming back to win in five.
Q 25Which Chinese player became the first from an Asian country to win a Grand Slam singles title, in 2011?
Li Na
Li Na won the French Open three years after leaving China's state sports system to run her own career; an estimated 116 million people at home watched the final.
Q 26What type of spin causes the ball to dip sharply after crossing the net and bounce high?
Topspin
Topspin rolls the ball forwards, and the air then forces it down sooner than gravity alone would, the Magnus effect, so even a hard-hit ball dips into court.
Q 27Under what name was tennis's top women's international team competition played from 1995 until 2020?
Fed Cup
Fed Cup was the short form adopted in 1995 for the Federation Cup, which was launched in 1963 to mark the 50th anniversary of the sport's international federation.
Q 28Which man won the calendar-year Grand Slam in 1969, the first of the Open Era?
Rod Laver
Rod Laver had already swept all four in 1962, then missed the majors for five years before coming back to sweep them all again.
Q 29What is the main stadium court at Roland Garros called?
Court Philippe-Chatrier
Court Philippe-Chatrier was named in 2001 after the French federation president who led the campaign to bring tennis back into the Olympics; it gained a retractable roof in 2020.
Q 30Which 1972 Wimbledon champion is now best known for the white Adidas tennis shoe that bears his name?
Stan Smith
Stan Smith's shoe was first sold under the name of French player Robert Haillet; Adidas later put Smith's portrait on the tongue and dropped Haillet's name altogether.