This Sports GK quiz on Tennis Grand Slams puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
Which of the following is the oldest tennis tournament in the world?
The Championships were first played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in 1877, which makes Wimbledon the oldest tennis tournament in the world.
Read the full explanation →Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on a clay court?
Played at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris in May and June, it is the only Major contested on clay, and its red crushed brick surface slows the ball and makes it bounce high, so rallies are long and a patient baseline player is favoured.
Read the full explanation →The women's singles champion at Wimbledon is presented with which trophy?
The ladies' singles champion at Wimbledon receives a sterling silver salver, a flat dish rather than a cup, decorated with figures from classical mythology, and it has been awarded since 1886.
Read the full explanation →The Coupe des Mousquetaires is awarded to the men's singles champion of which Grand Slam?
The Coupe des Mousquetaires, or Musketeers' Cup, is handed to the men's singles winner at Roland Garros.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tennis title?
He won the mixed doubles title at the 1997 French Open partnering Rika Hiraki of Japan, and that was the first Grand Slam title of any kind won by an Indian.
Read the full explanation →Sania Mirza became the first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title by winning the mixed doubles at which tournament?
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles title at Melbourne Park in 2009, and that made Mirza the first Indian woman to win any Grand Slam title.
Read the full explanation →The Open Era in tennis, in which professionals were allowed to play the Grand Slams alongside amateurs, began in which year?
Until that year the Majors were reserved for amateurs, and the best players of the day, once they turned professional, could no longer enter them.
Read the full explanation →Who is the only male tennis player to have won the calendar year Grand Slam twice?
The Australian won all four Majors in the same calendar year in 1962 as an amateur and did it again in 1969, in the second year of the Open Era, which no other man has matched.
Read the full explanation →Which player completed the Golden Slam, all four Majors and the Olympic singles gold in the same year, in 1988?
In 1988 the German won the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and then took the Olympic singles gold medal at Seoul, the first Games at which tennis was again a full medal sport.
Read the full explanation →In tennis, a score of forty all in a game is called which of the following?
Points in a game are called fifteen, thirty and forty, and when both players reach forty the score is deuce.
Read the full explanation →What is the length of a standard tennis court?
Under the Rules of Tennis a court is 78 feet, about 23.77 metres, from baseline to baseline, and the length is the same whether singles or doubles is being played.
Read the full explanation →The US Open tennis championship is held at which of the following venues?
The US Open is played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Flushing Meadows park of the New York borough of Queens, on hard courts, in the last week of August and the first of September.
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