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1. Who was the first non-American to win the singles trophy in the U.S. Open tennis tournament?

2. Who was the first tennis player to surpass the $1 million mark in career prize money?

3. Who is the only woman to have won the singles championship in the U.S. Open tennis tournament eight times?

4. Who was the first unseeded (not ranked among the top 16 players) tennis player to win Wimbledon’s men’s singles championship?

5. Who was the first Black player to win the French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open singles tennis championships?

6. Who was the first American-born tennis player to win the men’s singles championship at Wimbledon?

7. Who won three consecutive singles championship titles—1979, 1980, and 1981—at the U.S. Open tennis tournament?

8. Who holds the record for most professional tennis championships?

9. Who defeated Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match in Houston, Texas, in 1973?

10. What are the annual All-England Championships in lawn tennis better known as?

11. When was the women’s championship introduced at Wimbledon?

12. Who won seven consecutive U.S. professional men’s tennis championships from 1953 to 1959?

13. Which tennis tournament is a major international team event for men?

14. Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is held at Flushing Meadows?

15. Which Grand Slam tennis championship is played on clay courts?

16. Who won the first Wimbledon championship?

17. Who was the first person to win three Wimbledon championships in a single year?

18. When were the first Wimbledon championships held?

19. Who was the first person to win the tennis Grand Slam twice?

20. Who was the only tennis player in the 20th century to win the Grand Slam in both doubles and singles competition?

21. Who was the first woman to win tennis’s Grand Slam?

22. Who was known as the “queen mother of American tennis” because of her domination of women’s tennis in the United States before World War I?

23. Who were the twin English brothers who dominated Wimbledon tennis competition in the 1880s?

24. Who was the first Black winner of a men’s singles Grand Slam event in tennis?