Which Tennis Player am I? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Patrick Rafter

Pat Rafter was born in 1972 in Queensland, Australia. A very popular player, he won two singles Grand Slams, the US Open 1997 and 1998 where he beat Brit Greg Rusedski and fellow Aussie Mark Philippoussis respectively. He was runner-up at Wimbledon in 2000 and 2001 losing to American Pete Sampras and Croat Goran Ivanesivic.

He donated half the prize money from his 1997 and 1998 US Open wins to a children's hospital in Brisbane, Australia.

Answer: Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal was born in Mallorca in 1986. He won his first Grand Slam at the French Open at the age of 19 in 2005. His soccer-playing uncle is Miguel Angel Nadal.

Answer: Bjorn Borg

Bjorn Borg was born in Sweden in 1956. He won six French Open titles (1974-75, 1978-81) and five Wimbledon titles (1976-80). Despite being in four US Open finals, he never actually won. Borg is the only player in the open era to have won both Wimbledon and the French Open in the same year more than once, and he did so in three consecutive years. One of the most famous Wimbledon finals took place in 1980 where he and American John McEnroe dueled it out over five long sets.

The final score was: 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6, and the fourth set tiebreak comprised an amazing 34 points, 18-16.

Answer: Andy Murray

Andy Murray was born in Dunblane, Scotland. Andy won the Junior US Open in 2004, the US Open in 2012 and, finally, the Wimbledon men's title in 2013. Prior to that, the last British male to win a Wimbledon singles title was Fred Perry in 1936. He won the Wimbledon title again in 2016.

Ross Hutchins is a doubles specialist representing Great Britain. Chris Eaton and Alex Bogdanovic are also British players.

Answer: Chris Evert

Chris Evert was born December 21, 1954 in Florida. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record seven at the French Open. Chris never lost in the first round of a Grand Slam singles tournament, with her earliest exits being in the third round. Her third husband was professional golfer Greg Norman. Following a first marriage with British tennis player John Lloyd, she went on to have three sons with second husband, Olympic downhill skier Andy Mill.

Answer: Monica Seles

Monica Seles was born December 2, 1973 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) to Hungarian parents and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994. She became the youngest-ever champion at the 1990 French Open at the age of 16. She was the World No. 1 player in the women's game during 1991 and 1992, but in 1993 she was forced out of the sport for two years following an on-court attack, in which a German spectator stabbed her in the back with a knife.

She won a total of nine Grand Slams in the early 1990s but never won Wimbledon.

She will always be remembered for being the first female player to employ very loud grunting on court whenever she hit the ball.

Answer: Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf was born June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, West Germany. She married professional tennis player and Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24 (pre-Open era).

She was the first player to have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments (Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open) at least four times each. In 1988, Graf became the first female player to achieve the "Golden Slam" by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same year. Graf retired in 1999 and later lived in Nevada with her husband and their son and daughter.

Answer: Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams was born June 17, 1980 in California. She is the elder sister of Serena Williams. Venus and her sister were the first women (in addition to being the only sisters) during the open era to have played each other in four consecutive Grand Slam singles finals.

Answer: Stefan Edberg

Stefan Edberg was born 19th January 1966 in Västervik, Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles and five Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He won all four Grand Slam junior titles in 1983 to become the first-ever player to achieve the "Junior Grand Slam".

In 1988, Edberg reached the first of three consecutive finals at Wimbledon. In all three finals, he played Boris Becker in what became one of Wimbledon's greatest rivalries. Edberg won their first encounter in a four-set match spread over two days because of rain delays.

A year later, Becker won in straight sets. The closest of their matches came in the 1990 final, when Edberg won in five sets after being down a break in the fifth set.

Answer: Justine Henin

Justine Henin won a total of seven Grand Slam titles in her illustrious career. Born in 1982 in Belgium, she retired in June 2008 just before she was scheduled to defend her French Open title. She was 25 years old. Justine was famous for her single-handed backhand, and Billie Jean King once said that "pound for pound, Henin is the best tennis player of her generation."