wiki-illam #105: q4
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dubdobdeeIn the finals of the AELT & CC's championships:
i: which runner-up won 29 games?
ii: which match was decided after 12 games?
iii: who required 40 games for his three-set victory?
iv: which two-set match was decided after 46 games?
v: which champion is now remembered for his predatory reptile motif?
vi: in which match did the runner-up win as many games and sets as the victor?
vii: which titled finalist was imprisoned by the Gestapo?
viii: what was the role of Brooke's grandfather?
ix: who was the only victor to lose a set 0-6?
x: who defeated his brother three times?
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HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:21 am (UTC)The scoreline ones I'll have to have a bit of a ponder.
viii) Kat may be on to something w/the Shields connexion and indeed some anecdote involving her grandfather is on the tip of my brain...
Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:24 am (UTC)Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 11:39 am (UTC)Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:36 am (UTC)iii) is some pre-tiebreak era match that I don't know.
ii) must be a mid-match retirement - there have certainly been none in singles in the past 20 years (which is about as much as I know offhand), and indeed I don't recall much talk of any historical retirement in a singles final - this was a subject that commentators did spend time on in 2006 thanks to Henin's AO retirement, and the only other one that I remember coming up was Edberg retiring at the 1990 AO. So maybe it's doubles or juniors? I'd be surprised if all the answers were to do with singles.
vi) prob a retirement as well?
ix) I'm actually very, very surprised that only one victor (across doubles and juniors too?! surely not!) has been bagelled in the final in 100+ years. If it's singles it's an old match from the '80s or before...in the past 20 years I can only think of three Slam finals where the winner was bagelled.*
*Graf d. Seles 7-6 0-6 6-3, 1995 USO; Sánchez-Vicario d. Seles 7-6 0-6 6-2, 1998 RG; Gaudio d. Coria 0-3 3-6 6-4 6-1 8-6, 2004 RG - such a fucking massive, horrible choke from Coria there.
Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:41 am (UTC)Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:44 am (UTC)Re: ii. and ix.
Date: 2010-01-11 02:17 pm (UTC)Re: ii. and ix.
Date: 2010-01-11 02:24 pm (UTC)My own favourite tennis trivia question until 2004 was: who is the only woman to have beaten Venus Williams at Wimbledon who has never won the tournament herself? (A: Magdalena Grzybowska of Poland, in the 1997 first round in Venus's debut match.) I remember putting it in the bumper quiz w/amazing prizes in the university newspaper, and it was the only question that NO ONE in the entire university body managed to get. Then Venus went and lost to Karolina Sprem in '04 and Jelena Jankovic in '06 and made it useless.
Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:50 am (UTC)Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:53 am (UTC)Re: HUZZAH
Date: 2010-01-11 11:57 am (UTC)viii)
Date: 2010-01-11 12:32 pm (UTC)