A bit of a name fest here, but there are at least a couple that are guessable.
Questions
When American tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands won mixed-doubles gold at the 2016 Olympics she was partnered by which former junior US Open winner who took up professional pickleball in 2023? Neither player ever made it past the last 16 in a Grand Slam singles tournament.
JACK SOCK
Five times a winner of Grand Slam titles in women’s doubles, Bethanie Mattek-Sands’ successes in that event came alongside which Czech player who lost the 2015 French Open final to Serena Williams?
LUCIE ŠAFÁŘOVÁ
A winner of two Grand Slam men’s doubles tournaments with Curaçao-born Jean-Julien Rojer, which Romanian tennis player partnered Bethanie Mattek-Sands to the mixed doubles title at the 2012 Australian Open?
HORIA TECĂU
Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated a team containing her former partner Horia Tecău in the semi-final of the 2015 French Open mixed doubles. With which compatriot did she team up with, the pair going on to win the event?
MIKE BRYAN
The first time since 1982 that a pair had successfully defended their title in the US Open mixed doubles, which tennis player partnered with Bethanie Mattek-Sands to achieve this in 2019?
JAMIE MURRAY
The only Grand Slam singles final for which Romanian tennis player came when she was defeated by Slovenia-born Mima Jaušovec at the 1977 French Open? She also reached the mixed doubles finals at that event, suffering defeat to a pair that included John McEnroe.
FLORENȚA MIHAI
Who was the US tennis player who had male to female sex reassignment surgery and tried to compete as a lady at the 1976 US Open? She later coached Martina Navratilova to two Wimbledon titles.
RENÉE RICHARDS
Number 1 for a record 8 consecutive years in the 1950s, what nationality was Pancho Gonzales? In 1968 at the age of 40 he defeated defending champion Roy Emerson in the French Open quarter finals before losing to Rod Laver in the semis.
AMERICAN
When Marcus Baghdatis reached the final of the Australian Open he was under the wing of Frenchman Patrick Mouratoglou, the later coach of which tennis player for the ten years from 2012 to 2022?
SERENA WILLIAMS
Marián Vajda, long-time coach to Novak Djokovic, began coaching which fellow Slovak tennis player in May 2022? Their partnership ended the following year after improved results failed to materialise.
ALEX MOLČAN
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