Wimbledon starts Monday. Try this trivia quiz about the grass-court Grand Slam tournament:
First Round: When was the first ``Lawn Tennis Championship,'' aka Wimbledon, held?
a.) 1877
b.) 1887
c.) 1907
Second Round: Who was the most recent British singles champion at Wimbledon?
a.) Fred Perry
b.) Tim Henman
c.) Virginia Wade
Third Round: Venus Williams will be trying for her third consecutive Wimbledon title and sixth overall. Which woman holds the record for most Wimbledon singles championships, with nine?
a.) Steffi Graf
b.) Martina Navratilova
c.) Billie Jean King
Fourth Round: What was Roger Federer's combined win-loss record the first four times he played at Wimbledon?
a.) 4-4, with three first-round losses
b.) 8-4, with one semifinal appearance
c.) 17-2, with two championships
Quarterfinals: What was Federer's combined win-loss record the other six times he played at Wimbledon?
a.) 35-3, with three championships and two runner-up finishes
b.) 37-2, with four championships
c.) 40-1, with five championships and one runner-up finish
Semifinals: Federer's streak of reaching the semifinals at 20 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments is a record. What was the previous mark?
a.) 18
b.) 13
c.) 10
Championship: Only one of the past nine women's singles finals at Wimbledon did not involve at least one Williams sister. Which? As a bonus, name the finalists that year.
a.) 2008
b.) 2006
c.) 2001
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ANSWERS:
1st Round: a.
2nd Round: c. (She won in 1977; Perry was the last British man to win, in 1936.)
3rd Round: b. (King won six; Graf and Dorothea Douglass Chambers won seven; Helen Wills Moody won eight.)
4th Round: a.
Quarterfinals: c.
Semifinals: c. (Ivan Lendl, in the 1980s, and Rod Laver, in the 1960s, shared the previous record. Federer also has reached the final at 15 of the past 16 major tournaments.)
Championship: b. Bonus: Amelie Mauresmo beat Justine Henin 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the 2006 final. (Venus won in 2000-01, 2005, 2007-08; Serena won in 2002-03; Serena lost to Maria Sharapova in the 2004 final; there were all-Williams finals in 2002-03 and 2008.)