What Every Trivia Enthusiast Should Know About Tennis

Trivia has grown exponentially in popularity in the last decade. One of the most common types of trivia that is played between friends, family, and loved ones is sports trivia.

There are dozens of sports trivia games, online and physical, that are literally at your fingertips. If you haven’t yet explored them, now is a great time. But, like most of us, if you already are familiar with the subject of sports trivia, then you’re probably looking for trivia information that you can use.

This article is all about tennis. So, if you’re looking for trivia on the subject of tennis and its history, you are in the right place. Here we go.

• On September 20th, 1973, at the Houston Astrodome, female tennis extraordinaire Billy Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in front of 30,000 spectators in the famous “Battle of the Sexes”.

• Tennis was introduced as a bona fide Olympic sport in the year 1896. Afterwards, it was removed from Olympic competition following the 1924 games and wasn’t formally reinstated as an Olympic sport until 1988.

• The sport of Tennis was created in England.

• The first Tennis Masters Cup was won by Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil who defeated American Andre Agassi in straight sets in the year 2000.

• The “open era” of the US Open began in the year 1968 and was won (men’s singles) by Arthur Ashe and (women’s singles) by Virginia Wade.

• The French Open is also known as Tournoi de Roland-Garros and as Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros.

• The last men’s singles Wimbledon championship to be won by a British citizen was in 1936, when Fred Perry accomplished that feat.

• The common tennis ball weighs just more than 2 ounces and just less than 2 and 1/16 ounces.

• The first American woman to win the French Open was Helen Wills in 1928.

• The longest recorded tennis match of the open era lasted an exhausting 6 hours and 33 minutes. This match was played at the 2004 French Open and was between Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Fabrice Santoro. Santoro finally beat Clement 16-14 in the fifth set.

• The term used to refer to “0” in tennis is “Love”.

• Boris Becker was the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon singles championship title. He did this in 1985 at the age of 17.

This is just a very brief overview of the vast amounts of tennis trivia that are available to you; however, the information that you have just received can definitely help you in your “trivial pursuits”. I hope that you have learned something valuable here and that you can use it and share it.