b.) 4
c.) 6
d.) 8
1st Round. c. That was the last year that neither Williams, who finished with 23 Grand Slam singles titles, or Federer, who finished with 20, participated in any of the majors. Her Slam debut came at the 1998 Australian Open, where she reached the second round before losing to her sister, Venus. She won multiple matches at majors every subsequent season until 2023. Federer's first majors came in 1999, when he lost in the first round at the French Open and Wimbledon; he would win at least one Slam title every year from 2003-10, including a streak of 23 consecutive semifinal appearances.
2nd Round. b.
King led the push for equal pay. The Australian Open temporarily paid women and men the same in 1984, then stopped in 1996, before resuming for good in 2001. The French Open paid its champions the same in 2006, and paid women and men equally throughout the tournament the next year. Wimbledon offered equal pay in 2007.
3rd Round. b.
Pennetta was 33 when she defeated Roberta Vinci 7-6 (4), 6-2 at the 2015 U.S. Open, then declared she would soon retire. Jones was 30 when she won Wimbledon in 1969. Schiavone was 29 when she won the 2010 French Open; Bartoli was 28 when she won Wimbledon in 2013.
4th Round. a. Wilander won four of his seven Grand Slam titles before he turned 21: the French Open in 1982 and 1985, and the Australian Open in 1983 and 1984. By that age, Borg had won three, and Nadal and Becker two apiece.
Quarterfinals. d. While
Djokovic has won his highest number of Slam trophies at the Australian Open, 10, he has reached the semifinals there 10 times, the least for him at any major (he is a combined 20-0 in semifinals and finals at Melbourne Park.) Djokovic has been to the semifinals 12 times apiece at the other majors: Wimbledon (seven titles), the French Open (three) and the U.S. Open (three).
Semifinals. c.
over Alexander Zverev at the 2020 U.S. Open — held without spectators amid the coronavirus pandemic — is the only men's final decided by a fifth-set tiebreaker in the more than half-century of that match-settling setup in New York. Thiem also became the first man since 1949 to win the tournament's title after dropping the final's first two sets.
Final. a. It had never happened until 2019, when
Bianca Andreescu did it at age 19 by beating Serena Williams in the final. It happened again two years later in 2021, when
Emma Raducanu did it at age 18 by beating Leylah Fernandez. Andreescu did it in her fourth major overall; Raducanu in her second.
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP's tennis writer since 2002.
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