How well do you know the US Openthe last year Grand Slam Tennis tournament, which starts Monday? Try this AP quiz:
Coco Gauff And Novak Djokovic defend their 2023 US Open titles. For Gauff, it was her first Grand Slam trophy. For Djokovic, it was his 24th. Who was the last player to win at least two consecutive championships at Flushing Meadows?
a.) Rafael Nadal
b.) Serena Williams
c.) Roger Federer
d.) Maria Sharapova
The US Open added a retractable roof to Arthur Ashe Stadium for the 2016 tournament. Who lost the first US Open match played indoors?
a.) Andreas Seppi
b.) Fabio Fognini
c.) Paolo Lorenzi
d.) Thomas Fabbiano
The US Open was the first major sporting event to offer equal prize money for female and male competitors. What was the first year the US Tennis Association paid female and male singles champions the same amount?
a.) 1963
b.) 1968
(ca.) 1973
d.) 1978
I’m going to Swiatek will be seeded No. 1 at the US Open because she has been No. 1 in the WTA rankings for more than 115 weeks. The 2022 US Open champion is only 23, but is already closing in on the No. 7 spot. Who has spent the most weeks at the top of the WTA?
a.) Chris Evert
b.) Martina Navratilova
c.) Serena Williams
d.) Steffi Graf
Rafael Nadalwho misses the US Open for the fourth time in five years, and Roger Federerwho announced his retirement in 2022, have played each other a total of 40 times, 14 of them at Grand Slam tournaments. How many of the meetings between the rivals took place at the US Open?
a.) Five
b.) Three
cone
d.) Zero
A year ago, Aryna Sabalenka came within one win of claiming both hardcourt Grand Slam titles, but after winning the Australian Open in January, she finished runner-up to Coco Gauff at the US Open in September. Sabalenka will win the title again at Melbourne Park in 2024. Who was the last woman to claim the Australian Open and US Open championships in the same season?
a.) Angelique Kerber
b.) Martina Hingis
c.) Serena Williams
d.) Monica Seles
Carlos Alcaraz has four Grand Slam titles by the age of 21. That includes the last two — at the French Open and Wimbledon. If he wins the US Open, would he join the ranks of the only other man since Rod Laver’s 1969 calendar-year Grand Slam to have triumphed in Paris, London and New York in the same season?
a.) Roger Federer
b.) Novak Djokovic
c.) Rafael Nadal
d.) Björn Borg
1st round. b. Williams won three straight US Opens from 2012-14. The most recent man to win at least two consecutive trophies in New York was Federer, who was champion for five straight years, from 2004-08.
2nd round. a. Seppi was defeated 6-0, 7-5, 6-1 by Rafael Nadal in the second round on August 31, 2016 in Ashe. The match was delayed less than 7 1/2 minutes into the second set at 3-3 because the roof was closed.
3rd round. c. The change came a year after Billie Jean King earned $10,000 for winning the 1972 U.S. Open, while the men’s champion, Ilie Năstase, got $25,000. The Australian Open did not begin equal pay until 2001; the French Open in 2006; Wimbledon in 2007.
4th round. D. Graf, who retired in 1999 with 22 Grand Slam titles, spent 377 weeks at No. 1. Navratilova is next with 332, followed by Williams with 319 and Evert with 260.
Quarterfinals. d. They never met at the US Open. At the other majors, Federer led 3–1 at Wimbledon, and Nadal led Federer 3–1 at the Australian Open and 6–0 at the French Open.
Semifinals. a. Kerber defeated Serena Williams in the 2016 Australian Open final, and Karolina Pliskova in the US Open final that year. Hingis won both events in 1997, and Seles did so in 1991 and 1992. Williams has never played the Australian-American doubles, despite winning seven Australian Opens and six US Opens.
Final. c. Nadal won the last three majors of the year in 2010. No one had done that since Laver went 4 for 4, and no one has done it since. Djokovic came close to a real Grand Slam in 2021won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open, where he lost to Daniil Medvedev, one win shy of a perfect Grand Slam season of 28 wins and 0 wins.
___
Howard Fendrich has been AP’s tennis reporter since 2002. Here are his stories: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich
___
AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis