Anyone for Tennis? Trivia Quiz

Answer: SW19

Wimbledon Tennis Club is situated on Church Road between Somerset Road and Wimbledon Park Road in the London Borough of Merton. The other postcodes: NW8 is Lord's Cricket Ground; SW1 is Buckingham Palace and HA9 is Wembley Stadium.

Answer: True

The Australian Open is played on a hard court surface, as is the US Open. The French Open is played on a red clay court.

Answer: Croquet

The All England Croquet Club at Wimbledon was a private members club founded in 1868. The first Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon in 1877 was an amateur competition for men's singles only.

Answer: 1980

Affectionally known as 'Cyclops' the device transmits infra-red beams across the Centre Court and Courts One and Two which detect foot faults on service.

Answer: Twelve Guineas

Spencer Gore beat William C Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. The admission price for spectators was One Pound with the club making Ten Pounds profit. In British currency a Guinea was worth 21 Shillings.

Answer: 1896 (Athens)

Lawn tennis was played in the Olympic Games from 1896 until it was dropped prior to the 1924 games. The Men's Singles and Doubles were the only matches played. J P Boland of Britain won the Singles and, partnered by Mr Traun of Germany, also won the Doubles.

It was readopted as a sport in 1988 with Steffi Graf (Germany) and Miloslav Mecir (Czechoslovakia) being the respective Ladies' and Men's Singles gold medallists.

Answer: 19

The Wimbledon club has 19 grass courts plus five red shale courts, three Continental and one American clay courts, and five indoor courts for club member's use.

Answer: May Sutton

In 1884 the Women's Singles were first played at Wimbledon, and America's May Sutton was the first non-British player to win the title in 1905. Suzanne Lenglen (France) was Wimbledon Ladies' Singles champion six times (1919-23 and 1925). Maureen 'Little Mo' Connolly (USA) was the first woman to achieve the Grand Slam, winning Wimbledon 1952-54. Althea Gibson (USA) was the first black player to win a Wimbledon title (1957).

Answer: Duke of Kent

Queen Elizabeth is the Patron, The Duke of Devonshire and Air Chief Marshall (Ret'd) Sir Brian Burnett are Vice-Presidents.

Answer: true

Sydney-born Rosewall won the Australian Open in 1953 at the age of 18 years 2 months. He won again in 1955 and 1971 before winning his last Open in 1972 at the age of 37 years 2 months. During his career he won 169 matches, losing only 62.

Answer: Goran Ivanisevic

Croatian Ivanisevic beat Tim Henman (GBR) in the semi-finals and went on to beat Pat Rafter (AUS) in a five set match in 2001. A 'wildcard' is a player who has failed to qualify for the tournament but has been selected on merit.

Answer: 1981

During a first-round match against Tom Gullikson, McEnroe screamed those now famous lines. Umpire Edward James docked McEnroe a point for obscenity mistaking 'pits' for something completely different. He went on to win the 1981 title beating Bjorn Borg in the final, thus ending Borg's run of five Wimbledon wins (1976-1980).

Answer: 41

The 1969 first round match between Pancho Gonzales and Charlie Paserell evolved into a marathon game lasting 5 hours 12 minutes with 112 games being played (due to the absence of tie-breaks). Gonzalez eventually won with a score of 22-24, 1-6, 16-14, 6-3, 11-9. He also won his next two rounds before being beaten by Arthur Ashe (Singles winner 1975).

Answer: Teddy Tinling

Teddy Tinling, the official Wimbledon designer, had made a short rayon dress for Gussy and decided she should wear frilly pants underneath. She wore shorts during the opening rounds but, on reaching the Ladies' Doubles final - thus ensuring a royal prescence, she opted for the pants.

It was feared that the 84-year-old Queen Mary would take offence but luckily, perhaps, the Queen was confined to her palace by the heat. Louis Greg the then President of Wimbledon was outraged and Tinling was sacked.

Answer: streaker ran across the Centre Court

During a break due to rain, Mark Roberts ran onto Centre Court and undressed, did a pirouette, bowed, somersaulted over the net did a jig and attempted to escape the security guards. He was caught by a female guard and escorted from the venue under a red blanket.