Wimbledon 2026

Quick Served Day 10

Semifinalist Arthur Fery played three years for Stanford University, which was represented in the 1979, 1980 and 1981 Wimbledon men’s finals. By who?

💡Answer: Roscoe Tanner in 1979 and John McEnroe in 1980 and 1981.

Quick Served Day 9

At 22 years old, Coco Gauff is the youngest WTA player since 2007 to make the quarterfinals of all four Slams. Who did it then?

💡Answer: Maria Sharapova at 20 years old.

Quick Served Day 8

On this date (July 6), an epic Wimbledon match caused a power surge across the U.K. once it finally ended near nightfall and millions of Brits turned on their lights and kettles at the same time. Which match captivated the public this much?

💡Answer: Rafael Nadal def. Roger Federer, 2008 final.

Quick Served Day 7

If Jessica Pegula wins Wimbledon, she will become the oldest WTA player to win her first major since the current all-time record-holder. Who is it? Hints: It happened this millennium, and she beat a compatriot.

💡Answer: Flavia Pennetta was 31 years old when she won her maiden Slam at the 2015 US Open, defeating Roberta Vinci.

Quick Served Day 6

On July 4, 1947, Jack Kramer became the first man to win Wimbledon wearing what article of clothing that is common today?

💡Answer: Kramer wore shorts instead of flannel trousers.

Quick Served Day 5

Who did Roger Federer beat for his record 105th win at SW19? Hint: He is still in the draw.

💡Answer: Lorenzo Sonego.

Quick Served Day 4

How many Wimbledon junior champions remain in the men’s and women’s draws?

💡Answer: 9

• Men: Grigor Dimitrov, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Marton Fucsovics, Shintaro Mochizuki

• Women: Belinda Bencic, Claire Liu, Jelena Ostapenko, Daria Snigur, Iga Swiatek

Quick Served Day 3

On this day in 2019, 15-year-old Coco Gauff beat Venus Williams in the first round, making her the youngest player to win a match at Wimbledon since another American teenager. Who was it?

💡Answer: Jennifer Capriati. She was 14 years and 89 days when she beat Canada’s Helen Kelesi in 1990.

Quick Served Day 2

At 41 years and 94 days, Stan Wawrinka is the third-oldest man to play a Wimbledon match in this century. Who are the two older players?

💡Answer: Ivo Karlovic and Feliciano Lopez.

Quick Served Day 1

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina won his first ATP title on Saturday in Mallorca, Spain, and he lost another title in the process: the richest player without a trophy. How much prize money had he won before he broke through?

💡Answer: $11.7 million. Now Jaume Munar leads the list with $7.3 million. (h/t Sportico)

5 Setter

June 19, 2026

In Set 5, Producer Mike talked about the changes to Tennis.com we noticed this week and asked: Who was the first person—or people—on Tennis magazine’s cover?

💡Answer: Marty Riessen and Clark Graebner, two amateur players. The magazine was launched in Chicago in May 1965 and focused on local and regional coverage. Read about the history here.

June 12, 2026

In honor of Serena Williams’s return to the doubles court, we asked: Who is the only player besides Venus to win Slam titles with her?

💡Answer: Max Mirnyi. He and Serena won mixed doubles at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1998, when Serena was 16. Miyrni is now in Aryna Sabalenka’s entourage.

Roland Garros 2026

Quick Served Day 14

How many major singles titles are in this picture?

💡Answer: 26—20 for Roger Federer, five for Martina Hingis and one for Gabriela Sabatini.

Quick Served Day 13

Rafael Nadal won 112 matches at Roland Garros. How many did he win in straight sets?

💡Answer: 90, 80% of his total victories.

Quick Served Day 12

Maja Chwalinska is the third Polish woman to reach a major final in the Open Era. Besides Iga Swiatek, who is the other?

💡Answer: Agnieszka Radwanska (2012 Wimbledon, lost to Serena Williams).

Quick Served Day 11

Jakub Menšík, Flavio Cobolli and Matteo Arnaldi have reached their first major semifinal this year at Roland Garros. The last Slam to feature three rookie male semifinalists was the 2022 US Open. Who were they?

💡Answer: Carlos Alcaraz, Karen Khachanov and Frances Tiafoe.

Quick Served Day 10

Jakub Menšík and João Fonseca were the fifth-youngest quarterfinal pairing in Roland Garros history. Which American former champ was part of the two youngest pairings?

💡Answer: Andre Agassi, in 1988 (vs. Guillermo Perez Roldan, combined age 36) and 1990 (vs. Michael Chang, combined age 38).

Quick Served Day 9

At 44, Serena would not be the oldest woman to win a main-draw WTA match, should her comeback prove successful in singles. Who holds the record?

💡Answer: Martina Navratilova. She was 47 when she won her first-round match at Wimbledon in 2004.

Quick Served Day 8

Roland Garros will crown new men’s and women’s champions for the first time since 2016. Who won the titles that year?

💡Answer: Novak Djokovic and Garbiñe Muguruza.

Quick Served Day 7

One man left in the draw had three ATP wins this year coming into Roland Garros. Who is it?

💡Answer: Zachary Svajda.

Quick Served Day 6

Which woman has the most aces through two rounds? Hint: She has made the semis before.

💡Answer: Maria Sakkari (14). Aryna Sabalenka had just two. That’s clay for you.

Quick Served Day 5

One player can still complete a career Slam at Roland Garros this year. It’s in doubles, and the player is out of the singles draw. Who is it? (H/T to Hanlon Walsh/The Tennis Tribe)

💡Answer: Elise Mertens.

Quick Served Day 4

On this day 33 years ago, two-time Roland Garros champ Sergi Bruguera dropped the elusive triple bagel on a French opponent. Who was it? Hint: His surname is ironic in this context.

💡Answer: Thierry Champion was on the losing end of the 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 drubbing in 1993. He was commended for finishing the match and not retiring. (h/t @BastienFachan)

Quick Served Day 3

On Day 3, Roland Garros honored the 70th anniversary of Althea Gibson’s historic title in 1956, the first Slam ever won by a Black player. What other professional sport did Gibson play?

💡Answer: Golf. She competed in 171 LPGA events between 1963 and 1977, after her tennis career ended, but did not win a title.

Quick Served Day 2

Stan Wawrinka was one of three men to beat Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray at a Slam during their careers. Who are the other two, both retired?

💡Answer: Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Quick Served Day 1

Novak Djokovic’s only two first-round losses at Slams came at the same tournament. Which one? (Bonus trivia: One of those two opponents went on to win the title and is currently coaching a Top 20 player. Who is it?)

💡Answer: The Australian Open. Djokovic lost in the first round in 2005 and 2006 Bonus trivia: Marat Safin beat him in 2005 and won the title. He now coaches Andrey Rublev.

5 Setter

May 15, 2026

In Set 1, Producer Mike shouted out Jannik Sinner for breaking Novak Djokovic’s record for the most consecutive Masters 1000 match wins, and asked who Djokovic was playing when his 31-match streak ended in the 2011 Cincinnati final.

💡Answer: Andy Murray. Djokovic retired from the final with a right shoulder injury. Winning 57 matches already that season had taken a toll on his body by mid-August. He bounced back to win the US Open.

May 8, 2026

In today’s episode, Producer Mike explained the latest on the University of Arkansas tennis program drama. Arkansas belongs to the SEC (the NCAA’s powerhouse Southeastern Conference, for the 40 percent of our audience outside of the United States). The SEC has produced many storied college tennis programs. Which SEC school has won the most NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championships?

💡Answer: The University of Georgia. The Bulldogs have won six national titles (one with John Isner in 2007). But that’s just in the SEC. The overall record belongs to the University of Southern California, with 21 rings.

May 1, 2026

In today’s episode, Producer Mike discussed both the ATP NextGen Finals returning to Italy and the NCAA Division I Championships starting today, and asked: How many of the eight players in the 2025 NextGen Finals played NCAA tennis?

💡Answer: 3. Learner Tien (USC), Rafael Jodar (Virginia) and Nishesh Basavareddy (Stanford).

Context-free soundbite: “I was more annoyed [by Monfils] than I should have been.”

Andy has the Meddy blues after the No. 6 seed’s five-set loss and he works through the shock in today’s recap with Producer Mike. He also circles back to Gael Monfils’s goodbye and what he meant to tennis.

For the record, everyone at Served HQ besides Kim had Daniil Medvedev in the semis. See you at the redraw.

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Bracket Busters

The Aussies came for our brackets today. A day after Thanasi Kokkinakis upset Terence Atmane, Adam Walton, ranked No. 97, who was 1-2 at Roland Garros coming into the tournament, took out Daniil Medvedev [6] 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4. Walton came back from a break down in the fifth set, and Medvedev played a careless final game with a double-fault and a wild swinging-volley error on match point. Afterward, Walton said he likes the heat in Paris. Cut to Medvedev complaining to his box mid-match and his wife responding, “It’s hot for everybody. Everybody is suffering. You need to behave!”

Then No. 83 Kimberly Birrell, another Aussie, took out Jessica Pegula [5] 1-6, 6-3 6-3. It was her first win ever at Roland Garros. Afterward, she still didn’t have a sense of how she turned the match around, other than maintaining a good attitude.

🎤 Kimberly Birrell

“I’ve been working on playing each point on its merit and deleting the point before, whether I’d won or lost the point.”

French sensation Moise Kouame, who lives about 15 minutes from Roland Garros, pulled off a historic upset of Marin Cilic 7-6, 6-2, 6-1. At 17, Kouame is the youngest person to beat a former Slam champion at the French and the first at any Slam since 2009. He’s just a few months younger than Michael Chang was when the American beat Ivan Lendl in the quarterfinals in 1989. We made the mistake of mentioning that to Andy in this episode.

Maria Sakkari got her first win at Roland Garros since 2022 when she took out Linda Noskova [12] 7-5, 7-6.

Who Cruised

Coco Gauff [4] opened her title defense on a chaotic morning that started with a fender bender (no one was hurt). She said it distracted her from her nerves, letting her played freely to beat Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-0.

Jannik Sinner [1] also won easily, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, over Clement Tabur. He passed Andre Agassi on the list of Slam match wins as world No. 1 with 39.

Madison Keys [13] had one of those days when everything worked—her words—and beat recent Love All guest Hanne Vandewinkel 6-3, 6-0.

Iva Jovic [17] beat her good friend Alexandra Eala 6-4, 6-2 just a few days after they hit the town to celebrate Eala’s birthday.

Learner Tien [18] served a double-bagel sandwich to Christian Garin, winning 6-0, 2-6, 6-0, 6-2 and making a case for the favorite in Medvedev’s quarter.

4 hours, 30 minutes

Length of Martin Landaluce’s five-set win today, the longest match of Round 1

Spanish teenager Martin Landaluce won his debut match at Roland Garros, and he made it memorable, beating qualifier Juan Carlos Prado Angelo 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-7, 6-4. It was the first five-set match of his career.

Landaluce, a product of the Rafael Nadal Academy, is often mentioned in the same breath as Rafael Jodar. Both are from Madrid, made the Next Gen Finals last year and had breakout wins this spring. Landaluce’s occurred at the Miami Open when he upset Sebastian Korda after Korda had taken out Carlos Alcaraz. Landaluce won six matches from qualifying to the quarterfinals in Miami.

🎤 Martin Landaluce on the heat learning curve

“You have to do a thousand things. Hydrate well, take plenty of gels and all the salts you can. Besides that, try to lower your heart rate during breaks and between points, so that the fatigue and lack of oxygen in your head due to excessive breathing don’t accumulate. Try to stay as calm as possible and know that, as the match will have its ups and downs, you have to put on a brave face and keep drawing energy.”

Tiebreak Trivia

On Day 3, Roland Garros honored the 70th anniversary of Althea Gibson’s historic title in 1956, the first Slam ever won by a Black player. What other professional sport did Gibson play?

💡 The answer will be in Day 4’s Quick Served newsletter.

Day 2 answer: Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga are the other players (with Stan Wawrinka) to beat the Big 4 at the Slams.

Quick Hits

• The backcourt tarp strikes again. Alexander Blockx caught his foot on one of the rolled-up rain coverings during practice and had to withdraw from the tournament with an ankle injury. We’ve known about the tarp trap for a decade.

• The only thing cooler than Coco Gauff? Her racquets.

• Naomi Osaka’s outfit was the talk of the town again. Here’s the best photo and secret detail and a heavy commentary from Courtney Nguyen.

• Aryna Sabalenka won Round 1 of her annual Roland Garros dance-off with Novak Djokovic ⬇️

🍿 Day 4 Matches

• Alex Zverev [2] vs. Tomas Machac

• Iga Swiatek [3] vs. Sara Bejlek

• Novak Djokovic [3] vs. Valentin Royer

• Belinda Bencic [11] vs. Caty McNally

• Casper Ruud [15] vs. Hamad Medjedovic

• Marta Kostyuk [15] vs. Katie Volynets

• Sorana Cirstea [18] vs. Eva Lys

• Hayley Baptiste [28] vs. Wang Xiyu

• Joao Fonseca [28] vs. Dino Prizmic

• Alex Michelsen vs. Nishesh Basavareddy

• Robert Cash/JJ Tracy [15] vs. Moise Kouame/Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard

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