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Who are the only two women in the Open Era to have dispensed the dreaded double bagel in a Grand Slam final?
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Steffi Graf (d. Natasha Zvereva at Roland-Garros 1988, 34 mins inc. rain delay) and Iga Świątek (d. Amanda Anisimova at Wimbledon 2025, 57 mins)
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Who is the only player in history to have achieved the junior Grand Slam (won all four in one calendar year)?
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Stefan Edberg, in 1983
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Of which Grand Slam final did an internet blogger, attempting description, invoke Roger Ebert's review of James Cameron's 1986 movie Aliens: 'I don’t know how else to describe this: The movie made me feel bad. It filled me with feelings of unease and disquiet and anxiety. I walked outside and I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I was drained. I’m not sure ‘Aliens’ is what we mean by entertainment. Yet I have to be accurate about this movie: It is a superb example of filmmaking craft'?
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Australian Open 2012 (Novak Djokovic d. Rafael Nadal, longest major final in history, 5 hrs 53 mins, mostly ball-bouncing)
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Who are the two most recent women to win Roland-Garros after saving one or more match points at some stage of the tournament?
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Iga Świątek (in 2024, saving a match point against Naomi Osaka in R2) and Barbora Krejcikova (in 2021, saving a match point against Maria Sakkari in the semifinal)
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'The ball - chalk came up all over the place. Excuse me? Look man, you can't be serious. You CANNOT be serious. That ball was on the line. Chalk flew up. It was clearly in. How can you possibly call that out? How many are you going to MISS? Now he's walking over, everyone knows it's in in this whole stadium, and you call it out? Explain that to me, will you?'
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John McEnroe, Wimbledon 1981
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What is the term for winning Roland-Garros and Wimbledon back-to-back?
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The Channel Slam
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Of what species of grass are the Wimbledon courts composed?
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Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)
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What city was the original site of the US Open, 1881-1914?
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Newport, Rhode Island
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What does SABR stand for?
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Sneak Attack By Roger
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In general, which grip allows for the generation of more topspin, Eastern or Western?
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Western
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Which European monarchs are known to have died from tennis-related circumstances?
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James I of Scotland, Louis X of France, Charles VIII of France
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If you have a one-handed backhand, and you find yourself drawn into a prolonged cross-court exchange on clay with a left-handed player averaging 3,200 rpm on the forehand - as a general rule, are you going to have a good time, or a bad time?
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Hey man, never give up
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Who as of 2025 is the most recent woman to win a Grand Slam with a one-handed backhand?
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Francesca Schiavone, Roland-Garros 2010
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If you ever find yourself for any reason unable to make an informed comment on a match, what can you always tap your head and say?
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It's all mental, you know
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Who as of 2025 is the most recent woman to win a Grand Slam with a two-handed forehand?
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Marion Bartoli
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Of which player did an internet blogger write, in a thoroughly classical pageant of barely-veiled homoeroticism: 'Even at the peak of his game, [he] was not one who blew his opponent off the court. Perhaps because his willowy figure looked deceptively fragile, or perhaps because his game hinged on such fine precision, you sense that he was always vulnerable, that his finely tuned game could go out at any moment...But there is unimaginable exhilaration when he did pull it off'?
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Stefan Edberg
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