Wimbledon 2021: Quiz, anybody?

1st Round: Wimbledon was canceled in 2020 for the primary time because it was worn out yearly from 1940 via 1945 due to World War II. Before that, it was referred to as off from 1915 via 1918 due to World War I. In what different yr was the event not held because it was first staged in 1877?
a.) 1909
b.) 1901
c.) 1879
d.) Never
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2nd Round: Who was the final participant aside from Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Andy Murray — collectively referred to by some because the Big Four of males’s tennis — to win what the All England Club calls The Gentlemen’s Singles Trophy?
a.) Pete Sampras
b.) Lleyton Hewitt
c.) Goran Ivanisevic
d.) Andre Agassi
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third Round: Starting with the 2000 event, how most of the previous 40 girls’s singles finalist slots at Wimbledon — 20 winners, 20 runners-up — have been stuffed by Serena or Venus Williams?
a.) 10
b.) 15
c.) 20
d.) 25
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4th Round: Roger Federer holds the file for many Grand Slam ultimate appearances by a person with 31, and is adopted intently on the all-time checklist by Novak Djokovic with 29 and Rafael Nadal with 28. Who ranks fourth on that checklist?
a.) Rod Laver
b.) Ivan Lendl
c.) Roy Emerson
d.) Pete Sampras
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Quarterfinals: When Novak Djokovic got here again from two units all the way down to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas within the French Open ultimate, he grew to become the primary man in additional than a half-century to win a Grand Slam title after twice profitable matches through the event regardless of dropping the preliminary two units. Who was the earlier man to drag off two such comebacks on the best way to a significant championship?
a.) Ted Schroeder
b.) Henri Cochet
c.) Yvon Petra
d.) Robert Wrenn
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Semifinals: Who was the latest feminine qualifier to achieve the semifinals at Wimbledon? (Bonus: In what yr and to whom did she lose?)
a.) Kaia Kanepi
b.) Marion Bartoli
c.) Alexandra Stevenson
d.) Severine Beltrame-Bremond
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Final: Since the beginning of 2015, what number of grass-court matches has Serena Williams misplaced?
a.) zero
b.) 2
c.) 5
d.) 10
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ANSWERS
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A view of the Venus Rosewater Dish – the Ladies’ Singles Trophy, and the Gentlemen’s Singles Trophy. (AP Photo)
1st Round. d. The oldest Grand Slam tennis event, first held in 1877, had by no means been canceled for any cause aside from a world conflict till final yr’s pandemic.
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2nd Round. b. Hewitt beat David Nalbandian within the 2002 Wimbledon males’s ultimate for his second Grand Slam title. Since then, the 17 males’s singles trophies have been divided this fashion: eight to Federer, 5 to Djokovic, two to Nadal and two to Murray.
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third Round. c. One Williams sister or the opposite has been the Wimbledon girls’s singles champion or runner-up a complete of 20 instances over the previous 20 years. Serena Williams has gained the event seven instances and been the runner-up one other 4; Venus Williams has gained it 5 instances and been the runner-up one other 4. They have met one another in 4 all-Williams finals.
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4th Round. b. Lendl reached 19 Grand Slam finals, profitable eight championships and ending because the runner-up a record-tying 11 instances (Federer additionally has misplaced 11 main finals). Sampras is subsequent on the checklist with 18.
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Quarterfinals. a. Schroeder did it at Wimbledon in 1949, trailing two units to none within the first spherical and quarterfinals en path to the championship. That was the one time the American entered Wimbledon. The different three males listed as potential solutions all did it earlier: Wrenn on the U.S. Championships in 1896, Cochet at Wimbledon in 1927, Petra at Wimbledon in 1946.
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Semifinals. c. Stevenson is the one lady to make all of it the best way to the semifinals on the All England Club after going via qualifying to get into the principle draw. She did it at age 18 in 1999. Stevenson was crushed by Lindsay Davenport within the semifinals. Kanepi (2010) and Beltrame-Bremond (2006) reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon as qualifiers; Podoroska acquired to the semifinals as a qualifier ultimately yr’s French Open.
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Final. b. Williams is 26-2 in that span on grass, with all the matches at Wimbledon — and each of the losses within the ultimate. She gained the titles in 2015 and 2016, sat out 2017 as a result of she was pregnant, then was the runner-up to Angelique Kerber in 2018 and to Simona Halep in 2019