Game, Set, Match Trivia Quiz

Answer: French Open

Of the 14 singles titles that Sampras won, half of them were at Wimbledon and a further five were at the US Open. He took two titles at the Australian Open, but never even made it to the final at Roland Garros during his 15-year professional career.
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Answer: Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis burst onto the tennis scene when she set a new record for the youngest ever Grand Slam singles champion by winning the 1997 Australian Open at the age of just 16 years and 3 months. She then went on to win both Wimbledon and the US Open in the same year. Her career was curtailed by injury, but she returned from her second period of retirement to take the Mixed Doubles title at the 2015 Australian Open with Laeander Paes. That win came 18 years after her first triumph.
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Answer: Pat Cash

Lendl was defeated in 1986 by Boris Becker, the German's second Wimbledon title of the three he ended his career with. Lendl fought his way through again the following year, only to lose again when Pat Cash took the title. Newcombe and Laver were playing in an earlier era than Lendl and Cash, and Pat Rafter never won the Wimbledon title, although he did win the US Open twice.
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Answer: True

Despite being one of the most decorated female tennis players of all time in the singles game, Navratilova always had time for doubles and won no less than 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles (from 1975 to 1990) in her long career. This is particularly astounding given the fitness required - both the singles and doubles tournaments occur simultaneously at the Grand Slam tournaments.
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Answer: He was defeated in the third round

Borg's sole singles appearance at the Australian Open ended in a third round defeat to Australia's Phil Dent, who eventually lost in the final to Jimmy Connors. Borg then took his maiden title at the next Grand Slam event, the 1974 French Open. In the end he won six French Open titles, five Wimbledon titles and was the US Open runner-up on four occasions, but he never went back to give the Australian Open another go.
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Answer: Steffi Graf

Steffi Graff won a Grand Slam in 1988, and won the singles gold at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea the same year. She would retire while ranked number three at age 30.
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Answer: Ken Rosewall

Rosewall is widely considered to be among the best male tennis players of all time. He won his first major, the Australian Championship, in 1953 and followed it with the French the same year. He then won the Australian again in 1955 and the US in 1956. His decision to become a paid player in 1957 meant that he was unable to play in the major tournaments, which were for amateurs only, until the Open era began in 1968.

Rosewall went on to win the Australian (1971 & 1972), French (1968) and US (1970) titles, some nineteen years after his first successes. He retired with eight grand slam single titles. Wimbledon eluded him, although he did reach the final on four separate occasions, across twenty years (1954, 1955, 1970 and 1974).

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Answer: Venus Williams

The Australian Open is the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, typically taking place in January. After Serena dropped out of the 2002 Australian Open due to injury, she went on to win the singles titles at all three of the other Grand Slams that year. This piled the pressure at the 2003 Australian Open as she had the opportunity to hold all four titles at the same time. Serena defeated her sister Venus over three sets to take the crown.
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Answer: Andy Murray

Federer was unable to win back-to-back events on Wimbledon's famous Centre Court in 2012 and had to settle for a silver medal to go alongside his (then) seven Wimbledon Men's Singles titles. He was beaten on that occasion by home favourite Andy Murray in a direct reversal of the result of that year's Wimbledon final.
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Answer: Smith

Margaret Smith was born in Australia in 1942, and won her first championship, the Australian Singes Championship, in 1960. She went on to win the Australian title a total of eleven times, the French and US title five times each and Wimbledon on three occasions.

She married in 1967, and changed her surname to that of her husband, and continued her career, taking breaks only when giving birth to her children. As well as her singles titles, Court was a successful doubles player and has numerous championships in both ladies and mixed doubles to her credit.