The US Open tennis championship is held at which of the following venues?
- A.Melbourne Park
- B.Flushing Meadows, New York
- C.Stade Roland Garros, Paris
- D.All England Club, London
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Flushing Meadows, New York. 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. Its main court, Arthur Ashe Stadium, is the largest tennis stadium in the world.
Option A, Melbourne Park, is the home of the Australian Open, the first Major of the year, whose centre court is the Rod Laver Arena. Option C, the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, hosts the French Open on clay, and its main court is the Philippe Chatrier court. Option D, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon in London, hosts the grass court Championships. Learning the four venues as a set of pairs, tournament and city, answers both the venue questions and the surface questions at once.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich of the following is the oldest tennis tournament in the world?
- A.US Open
- B.Wimbledon
- C.French Open
- D.Australian Open
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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?
- A.Wimbledon
- B.Australian Open
- C.French Open
- D.US Open
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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?
- A.Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup
- B.Venus Rosewater Dish
- C.Coupe Suzanne Lenglen
- D.Norman Brookes Challenge Cup
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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?
- A.US Open
- B.French Open
- C.Wimbledon
- D.Australian Open
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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?
- A.Leander Paes
- B.Vijay Amritraj
- C.Mahesh Bhupathi
- D.Ramanathan Krishnan
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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.
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