The Tennis Trivia Questions Thread...

[skatingfan]

Pennetta, Bartoli?

Pennetta - No - made 5 quarters, and a semis in addition to her US Open title.

Bartoli - No - remember that Bartoli lost a Wimbledon final to Venus Williams years before she won her title - also make 3 quarters, and a semi.

Gaston Gaudio

Yes. Gaudio is the only man in the open era to win a Grand Slam without making at least one QF or better at another major.

Two left - both women who won the Australian Open.

[ptmcmahon]

Before my time at least. I went back through a list of winners and got to the first one I didn't know (Mandilkova - 87) and it wasn't them.

Looks like it's a couple of women from 70's but will let others guess.

[atlpam]

Chris O’Neil and Barbara Jordan (but I had to look up a list of AO winners to come up with them).

[ptmcmahon]

heh, we probably clicked on their wiki's at the same time!

[skatingfan]

Chris O’Neil and Barbara Jordan (but I had to look up a list of AO winners to come up with them).

There we have it - so the five players to win a Grand Slam title, and not reach another quarter or better at any other Grand Slam event are Barbara, Jordan, Chris O'Neill, Gaston Gaudio, Bianca Andreescu, and Emma Raducanu. Andreescu, and Raducanu still have time to remove themselves from this list.

[mick1303]

Ok. A simple stat.
Most QF's at slams? Or most 4R?

Giving up the answer since nobody tries anymore ((
The answer is - the most matches won in player's least successful grand slam.

1) Djokovic: 90
2) Federer: 73
3) Nadal: 58
4) Lendl: 48
5) Agassi: 46
6) Murray: 39
7) Cilic: 31
8) Edberg: 30
9-10) Hewitt and Ferrer: 28

[ponchi101]

Ok. A simple stat.
Most QF's at slams? Or most 4R?

Giving up the answer since nobody tries anymore ((
The answer is - the most matches won in player's least successful grand slam.

1) Djokovic: 90
2) Federer: 73
3) Nadal: 58
4) Lendl: 48
5) Agassi: 46
6) Murray: 39
7) Cilic: 31
8) Edberg: 30
9-10) Hewitt and Ferrer: 28

I had forgotten this one. Sorry.
I will only say: a very interesting stat. But it was not THAT easy

[mick1303]

Currently active players are broken into tiers by certain criteria:
Tier A:
Djokovic
Tier B:
Sinner
Tier C:
Not disclosing, otherwise it'll be too easy ))
Tier D:
Alcaraz
Berrettini
De Minaur
Dimitrov
Khachanov
Medvedev
Nishikori
Rublev
Wawrinka
Tier E:
Felix
RBA
Fritz
Gasquet
Goffin
Monfils
Norrie
Paul
Shelton
Tiafoe
Zverev

What criteria was used for this breakdown?

[ponchi101]

I'm about to lock this topic! Your trivia are too difficult!
Let' see. Who is missing (Tier C) that is still active? That should be the key.

[mick1303]

I'm about to lock this topic! Your trivia are too difficult!
Let' see. Who is missing (Tier C) that is still active? That should be the key.

Yes it is. But if I will tell you - it will be too obvious. I give a hint - it is only one player.

[ponchi101]

Top players conspicuously absent from your list: Draper, Musetti and Rune. Uhm...

[mick1303]

Top players conspicuously absent from your list: Draper, Musetti and Rune. Uhm...

They are in lower tiers. If we count A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H, then Musetti is in tier F (6th) - along with Rune and 13 other players. Draper is in tier G (7th) - currently this tier contains 52 players. By "active" I assume players who have at least one win on the main tour this year.

[patrick]

Why Alcaraz in D while Sinner in B ?

[mick1303]

Why Alcaraz in D while Sinner in B ?

If you'll figure out the answer to this question, you'll understand the criteria I used to divide players into tiers.

[ponchi101]

I don't think it has to do with slams. Most of the players on your list have done little in them.