US Open Trivia
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97 free US Open trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Two of the biggest events in sport share a name. The US Open tennis championships close the Grand Slam year every September under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium, and the U.S. Open golf championship punishes the world's best players every June on the way to a Father's Day finish. This US Open trivia quiz covers both, so whether you came for Serena and Alcaraz or for Hogan, Tiger and Oakmont, there is a full set of questions for you. The tennis half runs from the first championships at the Newport Casino in 1881 through Forest Hills, the arrival of the Open Era, blue courts, Hawk-Eye, the shot clock, and the modern champions from Federer to Sinner. The golf half covers the first 36-hole championship in 1895, Francis Ouimet's 1913 upset, the four-time winners, record margins, the two-hole playoff and the qualifying grind known as Golf's Longest Day. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the tournaments' own records, so what you learn here is safe to repeat. There are 97 free questions with no sign-up needed. If you enjoy it, try our Wimbledon, Masters and Ryder Cup quizzes next.
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Q 01The US Open tennis championships are played in which New York City borough?
Queens
Queens: the event outgrew the private West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, also in Queens, and moved three miles north to public courts at Flushing Meadows in 1978.
Q 02Where does the US Open fall in the yearly order of tennis's Grand Slam tournaments?
Fourth and last
Fourth and last: from late 1977 to 1985 the Australian Open held a December slot and closed the Grand Slam year, until its move back to January in 1987 put the US Open last again.
Q 03Since 1978 the US Open tennis has been played on which surface?
Acrylic hard courts
Acrylic hard courts came with the 1978 move to Flushing Meadows and made this the first Grand Slam played on a hard surface; the Australian Open left grass for hard courts ten years later.
Q 04From 1975 to 1977 the US Open tennis was played on which surface?
Clay
Clay (green Har-Tru) was used from 1975 to 1977 after complaints about uneven bounces on the old grass; floodlit night play arrived in the same 1975 switch.
Q 05Which man is the only player to have won US Open singles titles on all three surfaces the event has used?
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors won before, between and after the event's two surface changes of 1975 and 1978; the surface has not changed since, so no later champion has had the chance.
Q 06The Newport Casino, site of the first US championships in 1881, is now home to what?
The International Tennis Hall of Fame
The International Tennis Hall of Fame was founded there in 1954, when the ageing Newport Casino was in danger of being torn down; the championships had left for New York in 1915.
Q 07In 2006 the US Open tennis venue was renamed after which four-time singles champion?
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King had the USTA National Tennis Center renamed for her in 2006; in 1970 she was one of nine women who signed $1 contracts to break away and start their own professional tour.
Q 08The main tennis stadium is named after which player, who won the first US Open of the Open Era in 1968?
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe won in 1968 as an amateur and a U.S. Army lieutenant, so he could not accept the $14,000 first prize; it went to Tom Okker, the man he beat in the final.
Q 09The US Open's main tennis stadium holds what distinction?
The largest tennis stadium in the world
The largest tennis stadium in the world seats 23,771 and stands on a filled-in ash dump, the wasteland F. Scott Fitzgerald turned into the 'valley of ashes' in The Great Gatsby.
Q 10Which addition to the US Open's main tennis stadium was completed in time for the 2016 tournament?
A retractable roof
A retractable roof was ready for 2016, after rain had pushed the men's final back to a Monday five years running, from 2008 to 2012.
Q 11Which is the second-largest show court at the tennis US Open?
Louis Armstrong Stadium
Louis Armstrong Stadium, rebuilt with about fourteen thousand seats and reopened in 2018, is second only to the main stadium; its upper tier is general admission.
Q 12What nickname has the US Open's Court 17 earned because its playing surface sits below ground level?
The Pit
The Pit opened in 2011 in a corner of the grounds; crews digging out its sunken bowl struck buried foundations from the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.
Q 13Since 2005, what colour have US Open tennis courts been painted inside the lines?
Blue
It is trademarked as 'US Open Blue' and was chosen to make the ball easier to see; outside the lines stays green.
Q 21Which US Open event was relaunched in 2025 as a two-day, $1 million contest packed with singles stars?
Mixed doubles
Mixed doubles moved to the week before the main draw with $1 million for the winners, yet the specialists still won: defending champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori beat Iga Świątek and Casper Ruud.
Q 22The middle weekend of the tennis US Open coincides with which American holiday?
Labor Day
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, lands on the middle weekend because the main draw begins in the last week of August and runs a fortnight.
Q 23Which woman won six US Open singles titles between 1975 and 1982, a joint Open Era record?
Chris Evert
Q 14In 1970 the US Open became the first Grand Slam to use which scoring innovation?
A tiebreak
A tiebreak in 1970 was sudden death, first to five points, so at 4-4 a single point was set point for both players; the gentler 12-point version replaced it in 1975.
Q 15In 1973 the US Open became the first Grand Slam to do what?
Pay men and women equal prize money
Pay men and women equal prize money: John Newcombe and Margaret Court each got $25,000, after the 1972 women's champion, paid $15,000 less than the men's, said she would sit out otherwise.
Q 16In 2006 the tennis US Open became the first Grand Slam to use which system for line-call challenges?
Hawk-Eye
Hawk-Eye challenges debuted at the 2006 US Open, the first Slam to use them, after the 2004 Serena Williams–Jennifer Capriati quarter-final was marred by bad line calls.
Q 17In 2018 the tennis US Open was the first Grand Slam to introduce what?
A serve clock between points
A 25-second serve clock between points was introduced in the 2018 main draw to speed play, after trials in the 2017 qualifying rounds.
Q 18On the US Open's old 'Super Saturday', which match was played between the two men's semi-finals?
The women's final
The women's final sat between the men's semi-finals until 2001, when it moved to a prime-time slot of its own; the old schedule left the men's finalists less than a day to recover.
Q 19The tennis US Open is the only Grand Slam that has been what?
Held every year since it began
Held every year since it began in 1881: both world wars halted the other three majors, but the 1917 edition went ahead as a 'Patriotic Tournament', with no trophies and its entry fees given to the Red Cross.
Q 20Which Masters tournament moved to New York in 2020 to share the US Open's spectator-free bubble?
Cincinnati
Cincinnati's event was played on the US Open courts the week before, so players stayed inside one bubble while the COVID-19 pandemic kept fans out of both tournaments.
Chris Evert won six times in eight years, then lost the 1983 and 1984 finals to her great rival Martina Navratilova; Serena Williams matched her six in 2014.
Q 24In her 2022 Vogue essay about leaving tennis after the US Open, Serena Williams preferred which word to 'retirement'?
Evolution
Evolution: she wrote that she was 'evolving away from tennis' toward other things. After that US Open she stayed away for nearly four years, then came back to play doubles in June 2026.
Q 25Through 2025, which three men shared the Open Era record of five US Open singles titles?
Connors, Sampras and Federer
Connors, Sampras and Federer each won five; Novak Djokovic reached ten finals but lost six of them, which left him one short on four titles.
Q 26Who ended Roger Federer's five-year US Open reign by beating him in the 2009 final?
Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro, then 20, won in five sets after trailing two sets to one; it stayed his only major, because wrist injuries and repeated surgery cost him most of 2010, 2014 and 2015.
Q 27Who became the youngest US Open men's singles champion in 1990, aged 19?
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras was 19 years and 28 days old; in the quarter-finals he ended Ivan Lendl's run of eight straight US Open finals, then beat John McEnroe to reach his first major final.
Q 28Whom did Sampras beat in the 2002 US Open final to win his 14th and last major?
Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi, his chief rival for more than a decade, lost in four sets; Sampras, seeded only 17th, never played another tournament and announced his retirement a year later.
Q 29Which American won the 2003 men's singles title, his only Grand Slam?
Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in the 2003 final; he went on to lose four more major finals, every one of them to Roger Federer.
Q 30In 2018 which player beat Serena Williams in a stormy US Open final to win her first major?
Naomi Osaka
Naomi Osaka, 20, won in straight sets after Williams was docked a game during a row with umpire Carlos Ramos; the crowd booed through the trophy ceremony and Osaka wept.