Random Trivia Questions

[El Dude]

Yup, you got him.

Without looking it up, I'm guessing something like Mikhail Youzhny. But I should probably step aside and let someone have a shot. On the other hand, we could just hit the ball back and forth, rahulpawar .

 

[10isfan]

Feel free to hit back and forth. You two are very knowledgeable. My husband loves tennis trivia. I am collecting these to fire at him over dinner. Thanks for all this content.

 

[rahulpawar]

Yup, you got him.

Without looking it up, I'm guessing something like Mikhail Youzhny. But I should probably step aside and let someone have a shot. On the other hand, we could just hit the ball back and forth, rahulpawar .

Yes its Youzhny :clap

Its fun if more people guess !

 

[Front242]

Yup, you got him.

Without looking it up, I'm guessing something like Mikhail Youzhny. But I should probably step aside and let someone have a shot. On the other hand, we could just hit the ball back and forth, rahulpawar .

Yes its Youzhny :clap

Its fun if more people guess !

Runner up is probably Dimitrov

 

[El Dude]

Who is the highest ranked player (as of 5/12) without an ATP title?

 

[rahulpawar]

Yup, you got him.

Without looking it up, I'm guessing something like Mikhail Youzhny. But I should probably step aside and let someone have a shot. On the other hand, we could just hit the ball back and forth, rahulpawar .

Yes its Youzhny :clap

Its fun if more people guess !

Runner up is probably Dimitrov

Not now but you never know might become one

Verdasco and Almgaro have also lost more than 300 matches I think. Also, the only player to lose more than 400 matches I could find was Santoro.

 

[El Dude]

It turns out we were wrong, rahul - Feliciano Lopez has more losses than Youzhny.

Here's some random players with 300+ match losses:

374 Lopez
364 Youzhny
348 Nieminen
341 Robredo
329 Melzer
324 Haas
319 Verdasco
318 Ferrer
315 Seppi

And yeah, I think Santoro is the only player with 400+, and he's got 444. You have to be pretty good to play that many matches. Two players that I thought might be in the 400-club are Jonas Bjorkman and Wayne Ferreira, but both fall short.

 

[rahulpawar]

Ohh I should have checked Lopez ! ...I did check others and no one was above 350.

Need to maybe check things thoroughly

 

[10isfan]

My hubby had a blast trying to answer these trivia questions. Any others you care to post?

 

[El Dude]

No one has answered my last one yet, which is:

Who is the highest ranked player without an ATP title?

I'll add a second:

Who is the highest ranked player without a Grand Slam quarterfinal appearance?

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Current ranking or the highest ranking of the player?

 

[El Dude]

Current ranking.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

How about Anderson for not winning a title?

 

[El Dude]

Nice try, but KA has three ATP 250s to his name. Its someone more obscure, lower ranked.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

OK. How about our lucky loser Lucas? Surely he must be the answer

 

[El Dude]

You got it, although when I first asked the question last week, it was Steve Johnson at #34. But Lucas Pouille is now #31 and the highest ranked player without a title.

I'll answer the other one: the highest ranked player without a Slam QF appearance is David Goffin.

Now your turn, GS&M.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

You got it, although when I first asked the question last week, it was Steve Johnson at #34. But Lucas Pouille is now #31 and the highest ranked player without a title.

Looks like for almost all questions that you ask the (correct) answer provided by the members is different from what you had in mind. :laydownlaughing

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Name an ATP player after whom an asteroid is named

Name a WTA player after whom a flower is named

p.s. Needless to say, this is a "closed Google quiz".

 

[Shivashish Sarkar]

I appreciate El Dude for starting this thread. It will add some fun to the life in the this forum. I like the idea very much.

 

[El Dude]

You got it, although when I first asked the question last week, it was Steve Johnson at #34. But Lucas Pouille is now #31 and the highest ranked player without a title.

Looks like for almost all questions that you ask the (correct) answer provided by the members is different from what you had in mind. :laydownlaughing

Yeah, although the main problem is that there is a lack of good statistical info. As for the last one, it wasn't my fault people took so long to reply! The answer was Steve Johnson when I asked it.