From: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
Subject: Trivia Quiz: The Answers
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:23:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.215852.29717@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
>
>Here are a few simple True-False questions:
>
>1) Jimmy Arias has never won a title at a grand slam event.

FALSE. Arias and Andrea Jaeger won the 1981 French Open mixed doubles title.

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>2) Kevin Curren has won 4 titles at grand slam events.

TRUE.  He and Anne Smith won the mixed doubles at the 1981 and 1982 U.S. Opens
and 1982 Wimbledon, and he and Steve Denton won the 1982 U.S. Open doubles.

>
>3) Derrick Rostagno has the best tour record in 5 set matches (minimum of
>     10 five set matches in career).

FALSE. Rostagno, at the end of 1991, had won 1 and lost 10 five sets matches,
one of the worst records. Johan Kriek was 18-4, and Michael Chang was 10-2 (but
has since lost in 5 to Niklas Kulti at the French Open.)

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>4) Ivan Lendl won his first doubles title before his first singles title.

TRUE. Lendl made his first final in doubles at Florence in 1979, losing with
Pavel Slozil. His second final was in singles in Brussels in 1979, losing to
Balazs Taroczy. The next week, on June 24, 1979, Lendl made his third career
final, winning the Berlin Championships with Carlos Kirmayr. He did not win
his first singles title until almost a year later, on April 13, 1980, over
Eddie Dibbs at Houston.

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>5) Boris Becker and John McEnroe played the longest Davis Cup match since
>    the tiebreaker was invented: 6 hours, 20 minutes, in 1987.

FALSE. This was the second longest match; McEnroe and Wilander played for
6 hours and 22 minutes in St. Louis in 1982, with McEnroe winning. Wilander
also lost in 5 sets to Horst Skoff of Austria in 1989 in 6 hours, 4 minutes.

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>6) Ivan Lendl achieved the highest computer ranking points ever when he was
>     #1 in 1987.

FALSE.  After the 1989 season, Boris Becker complained to the ATP Council
that not enough points were awarded for grand slam events. Other players
agreed, and the points were increased in grand slam events in 1990. This
point inflation helped wipe out the old records.  On February 25, 1991,
Stefan Edberg reached 3,997 points, the highest ever.

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>7) Guillermo Vilas never won a doubles title.

FALSE. Vilas made 24 doubles finals, winning 14 and losing 10.

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>8) Ivan Lendl made it to the finals in doubles at a grand slam event.

FALSE.  In 1980, Lendl and Wojtek Fibak made the semifinals of the French
Open, his best showing in a grand slam event.

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>9) In 1982, Peter Fleming became #1 in the doubles rankings, moving ahead
>    of his most frequent partner, John McEnroe.

TRUE, on February 1, 1982.

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>10) In the thousands of ATP sanctioned matches in 1991, only 4 were decided
>     by a score of 6-0, 6-0.

TRUE.  In the 1st round at Barcelona, Sergi Bruguera def. Mark Woodforde;
in the second round at the Japan Open, Michael Chang def. John Fitzgerald;
in the semifinals at Munich, Guillermo Perez-Roldan def. Christian Bergstrom;
and in the first round at Bologna, Marian Vajda def. Vladimir Gabrichidze.
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