1) What is the original sport from which the modern game of tennis (also called lawn tennis) is derived from?
Answer: Court tennis
2) Name the lowest ranked player to ever win a Grand Slam? What was the ranking, name Grand Slam event and the year?
Answer: Mark Edmondson, AO in 1976, he was ranked 212. He defeated John Newcombe in the final.
3) In the 90' name the Men's tennis player who held World No. 1 spot for the shortest duration? What was duration?
Answer: Patrick Rafter was No 1 just for a week in 1999
4) Who was the last man to win a Grand Slam title with a wooden racket and it was his only major title.
Answer: Yannick Noah, 1983, French Open
5) Approximately How many Tennis balls are used in the 2 weeks for a Grand Slam event.
Answer: 56,000- 90,000 depending on the types of categories
6) In 1983, which female player who was just 13 years then, became the youngest player to win a Grandslam match in history of tennis.
Answer: Steffi Graff in Roland Garros
7) Who is the player who was World No 1, four years in a row, and Wimbledon Championship winner for 3 consecutive years and also a Table Tennis World Champion
Answer: Fred Perry
8) Tennis balls used to black or white until the 1970 believe it or not, and their colour was dictated by the colour of the court being played on. And in 1972 the International Tennis Federation made optic yellow tennis balls, the ones we recognize today.
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