⚽ Tennis Trivia Questions & Answers
Grand Slams, rivalries and the legends of the court. Below are 29 free tennis trivia questions with answers — part of Sport trivia on BUZZ. Want a real challenge that adapts to what you know? Play the Sport quiz — no signup needed to start.
29 Tennis trivia questions
Q1. Which of the four Grand Slam tournaments is played on clay courts?
Answer: French Open
💡 Roland Garros' red clay slows the ball down and rewards long, grinding baseline rallies.
Q2. Which Grand Slam tournament kicks off the tennis season each January?
Answer: Australian Open
💡 Played in Melbourne's summer heat, it is nicknamed the 'Happy Slam' for its party atmosphere.
Q3. The US Open is played on which type of court surface?
Answer: Hard court
💡 The US Open used grass until 1974 and clay until 1977 before switching to hard courts in 1978.
Q4. Which tennis player has won the most Grand Slam titles (men's singles) as of 2024?
Answer: Novak Djokovic
💡 Djokovic won his 24th Grand Slam at the 2023 US Open.
Q5. In tennis, what is the score called when it is 40-40?
Answer: deuce
💡 After deuce, a player must win two consecutive points to win the game.
Q6. The Wimbledon tennis tournament is played on which surface?
Answer: Grass
💡 Wimbledon switched from grass to carpet for the indoors courts in the 1970s, then switched back.
Q7. In tennis, what does 'love' mean?
Answer: Zero
💡 The origin of 'love' is disputed — one theory links it to the French 'l'oeuf' meaning 'the egg' (zero).
Q8. How many Grand Slam singles titles did Roger Federer win?
Answer: 20
💡 Federer retired in 2022 with 20 Grand Slam titles.
Q9. In tennis, what is the term for winning a game without the opponent scoring a point?
Answer: Love game
💡 'Love' in tennis likely comes from the French 'l'oeuf', meaning egg, representing zero.
Q10. At 17, which player became the youngest man to win the Wimbledon singles title?
Answer: Boris Becker
💡 Becker was also unseeded when he stunned the field to win Wimbledon in 1985.
Q11. What is the name of the premier men's international team competition in tennis?
Answer: Davis Cup
💡 First contested in 1900, it is one of the world's largest annual team sporting events.
Q12. What surname is shared by tennis-playing sisters Venus and Serena?
Answer: Williams
💡 The sisters won Olympic doubles gold together three times: in 2000, 2008 and 2012.
Q13. Who was the first woman to win a Grand Slam singles tennis title?
Answer: Maud Watson
💡 Maud Watson won the inaugural Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship in 1884.
Q14. In 1973, Billie Jean King beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs before 90 million viewers in which match?
Answer: The Battle of the Sexes
💡 King's entrance alone was theatrical — she arrived on a gold litter styled like Cleopatra, while Riggs rolled in on a rickshaw pulled by models.
Q15. Who won a record nine Wimbledon women's singles titles between 1978 and 1990?
Answer: Martina Navratilova
💡 Six of her nine Wimbledon crowns came in a row, from 1982 to 1987.
Q16. Which German won a 'Golden Slam' - all four majors plus Olympic gold - in one year?
Answer: Steffi Graf
💡 Graf remains the only player ever to sweep all four majors and Olympic gold in a single year.
Q17. In a standard set, a tiebreak is played once the game score reaches what?
Answer: 6-6
💡 The first player to seven points, winning by two clear points, takes the tiebreak.
Q18. Which Swede won five straight Wimbledon men's singles titles from 1976 to 1980?
Answer: Bjorn Borg
💡 Borg's streak ended in the 1981 final, beaten by his great rival John McEnroe.
Q19. In which European capital is the clay-court Grand Slam held each May?
Answer: Paris
💡 Roland Garros sits in western Paris, named after a pioneering French aviator.
Q20. What title is given to the official who presides over a match from a high chair?
Answer: chair umpire
💡 The chair umpire can overrule line calls and enforce the sport's time rules.
Q21. What one-word term describes a legal serve the receiver fails to touch, winning the point?
Answer: ace
💡 The fastest recorded serves in the men's game have been clocked above 260 km/h.
Q22. How many sets must a player win to win a Wimbledon men's singles match?
Answer: Three
💡 Men's Grand Slam matches are best of five sets, while women's are best of three. Wimbledon introduced tiebreaks in all sets except the final set in 2019.
Q23. Which Australian holds the all-time Grand Slam singles title record, men's or women's, with 24?
Answer: Margaret Court
💡 She completed a calendar-year Grand Slam in 1970 and won 62 of the 85 major finals she ever played — a 72.9% success rate.
Q24. Which American tennis innovator invented the tiebreak in the early 1950s to stop endless matches?
Answer: James Van Alen
💡 He first called it an 'extra game' and even coined a version he named 'Sudden Death' — the US Open became the first Grand Slam to officially adopt a tiebreak, in 1970.
Q25. Which man is the only player to win the calendar-year Grand Slam twice?
Answer: Rod Laver
💡 Laver swept all four majors in 1962 as an amateur and again in 1969 in the Open Era.
Q26. Who became the first player to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam, back in 1938?
Answer: Don Budge
💡 Budge's 1938 sweep of all four majors is what gave tennis the term 'Grand Slam'.
Q27. In which year did Wimbledon switch from white to yellow tennis balls?
Answer: 1986
💡 Yellow balls show up far better on television, which drove the change.
Q28. Which American man completed a Career Golden Slam of all four majors plus Olympic gold?
Answer: Andre Agassi
💡 Agassi sealed it at the 1999 French Open, three years after his 1996 Olympic gold.
Q29. Who was the first Black man to win the Wimbledon men's singles title, in 1975?
Answer: Arthur Ashe
💡 Ashe upset defending champion Jimmy Connors in a famously tactical final.
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