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Tebbutt's Annual Tennis Quiz


http://www.tenniscanada.com/index.php?title=TEBBUTT:-GENIUS/JOKER-QUIZ-2014&pid=6164

 

For those who like geeky tennis quizes ! (Which is just my way of saying I generally haven't got a clue . . . )



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Thanks CD I wasted half an hour on this last night but it's good fun - many of the questions weren't that hard, some of the others could be worked out with a bit of judicious googling if you had an idea of what the answer might be and a few were pure guesswork.

I had the most trouble with questions 10, 11, 16 and 23 ... and 24 until I had another look while putting my answers into an email just now and kicked myself! (last night, I'd been thinking singles players)

One that I thought I ought to know the answer to but didn't was ...

10. How is it determined who will sit in which courtside players chair for a match?

a. first on, first choice, except for seeded players
b. first onto the court selects where he or she sits
c. it is pre-determined for main stadium matches
d. first on chooses, but host country players have preference

It strikes me there must be a rule otherwise we'd see some fighting given how superstitious some players are but no such rule is mentioned in the ITF, ATP or WTA rulebooks, as far as I can see. Having said that, doesn't the higher-seeded player tend to walk onto court first at slams? In which case b in effect turns into a. Hmm - if I can be bothered before sending, I might look at the start of a random Nadal match at Wimbledon match and see what happened there.

Also, in question 23, I'm convinced I recognise one of the players in the photo but none of his possible partners look remotely like the other player. Then again, if I'm right about the player I think I know, the photo must have been taken 15-20 years ago.



-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 17th of December 2014 07:55:17 PM

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Yes, I think it was taken ages ago.

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If anyone tried this, the answers are at the end of ICTURES-OF-THE-YEAR&pid=6169">www.tenniscanada.com/index.php

I got 20/25 - the two winners got 22. The answer to question 10 (in my last post) was b), so I got that, but the player I thought was Dom turned out to be Mannarino and I didn't realise Stan Smith's middle name was Roger for (sneaky ) question 9 - the other 3 I got wrong were ones I wasn't at all sure of.

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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html

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