The Tennis Trivia Questions Thread...

[skatingfan]

A player that reached two slam finals in a year, but did not win either?

That's happened multiple times on the men's side.

[ponchi101]

Looked it up. It has happened more times on the men's side that on the women's.
Well, Mick never posts easy ones...

[mick1303]

"...but did not win" is hardly an achievement )) No, the one I asked is a real no joke achievement.

[3mlm]

A career "Boxed Set," which is a career Grand Slam in Singles, Doubles and mixed Doubles, completed by both Martina Navratilova and Margaret Court in the Open Era and also Margaret Court and Doris Hart before the Open Era.

[mick1303]

I guess this could be considered as an answer. I did not specify in my question that the achievement is related to singles only. Now I do. I had in mind different achievement.

[ponchi101]

You post the hardest questions, Mike

[mick1303]

The said achievement is winning you second slam immediately after the first (in the next GS tournament). Happened on WTA more than once (Venus Williams, Osaka). Never happened in ATP history.

[mick1303]

Let's do more straightforward trivia question. I was recently in the conversation on MTF about did anyone ever beat both Sinner and Alcaraz to win a tournament. The answer - it happened only once - exactly 2 years ago when Djokovic won his last YEC. That drove my thoughts in the direction - on how many occasions someone beat Nadal and Djokovic to win a tournament. I tried to combine a list from my memory before giving up and looking in the database. Turned out I remembered 6 out of 8 times it happened. I'm wondering if anyone has better memory )