Re: Real Easy Quiz

"Lloyd" <watiyinna@"remove this to reply" smartchat.net.au> wrote in message
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The answers:

> (1) Who won the first US Championships in men's singles and in what year?

Richard Sears. 1881.

> (2) Who was known as the "California Comet"?

Maurice McLoughlin, the world's first power-player.

> (3) Who holds the longest winning streak in women's tennis, how many
> consecutive matches was it, and in what year was it achieved?

MN, 74 matches, in 1984.

> (4) Name the "Four Musketeers".

Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Jacques Brugnon.

> (5) Who was the last Brit to win a slam and what slam and year was it?

Virginia Wade, 1977 W. I should've said the singles. Durie/Bates won the AO
mixed in 1991.

> Name the most celebrated shot or dominant attribute of the following
players
> (note: if I said Ivanisevic it'd be "serve"; Hewitt it would be
"courtspeed"
> or "grit". I'll be fair in assessing your answers for possible
> alternatives......):

> (6) Donald Budge

Backhand

> (7) Pancho Gonzales

Serve

> (8) Pauline Betz

Backhand - rated by Alice Marble in the late 50's as the best she'd ever
seen.

> (9) Sue Barker

Forehand - probably the biggest pre-Graf.

> (10) Frank Kovacs

Court antics - dubbed the "Clown Prince" of tennis. Some examples: he
heckled opponents as they were about to hit overheads, threatened the
linesmen, chewed on the balls (all in good fun BTW). At Newport 1940 in
answer to an official's order to "play tennis" he clicked his heels, snapped
to attention, and gave a Nazi salute (the audience loved it). In the 1940 US
Champs QF he decided to throw his match against Joe Hunt because he was
exhausted after playing 20 consecutive tournaments. He fooled around and hit
balls behind his back and between his legs, threw up three balls on service
and then hit the middle one for an ace and then staged a sit-down strike
when Hunt complained to the ump. He sat down on the court and used his
racquet as a pretend-guitar and Hunt also sat down and refused to play.
After fifteen minutes of officials working to restore order they eventually
decided to finish the match.

> (11) Jean Borotra

netplay

> (12) John Bromwich

Unorthodoxy and concentration.

> (13) Barry Mackay

Serve - noted for serving lots of second-serve aces (and DF's as well).

> (14) Vincent Richards

Volleys.

> (15) Roscoe Tanner

Serve.

> (16) Of the three basic serves which is least suited as a rule for a
> righthander serving outwide to the ad court?

The slice. I was disappointed only TWO (!) people got this. How can you
evaluate tennis-matches unless you've grasped tactical concepts like this?

> (17) Which grip is best suited to the low and wide ball?

The continental - rendered nearly obsolete by the fact that low bounce is a
rarity these days.

> (18) Who was the main organizer  behind the men's pro tour during the
> fifties?

Jack Kramer.

> (19) Name five postwar Wimbledon men's singles winners who didn't turn
pro.

Petra, Falkenburg, Patty, Savitt, Seixas, Drobny, Fraser, McKinley. BTW Emmo
turned pro in early '68.

> (20) Name all the women who've won the calendar Grand Slam.

Connolly, Court, Graf.