French Open Trivia
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50 free French Open trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The French Open is the slowest, dirtiest and most exhausting of the four tennis Grand Slams: two weeks of red clay in the Bois de Boulogne every late May and June, where big servers go to suffer and grinders become legends. This French Open trivia quiz covers all of it, from the members-only French Championships of 1891 and the stadium built for the Four Musketeers in 1928 to Rafael Nadal's fourteen titles and the plaque of his footprint on Court Philippe-Chatrier. The early questions are ones any tennis fan can handle: which surface, which city, who the tournament is named after. Then it moves through Björn Borg and Chris Evert, the youngest champions, the men who never won here, the trophies, the ball kids and the reason there is still no Hawk-Eye at Roland Garros. The final stretch tests whether you know who beat Nadal first, who won the first Open Era Slam in 1968 and what the Prix Citron is for. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the tournament's records, so you can trust what you learn. There are 50 free questions and no sign-up. If you enjoy it, try our Wimbledon, US Open and Australian Open quizzes next.
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Q 01The French Open's red clay is in fact a thin dusting of crushed what over white limestone?
Brick
Brick, crushed to a red powder, forms only the top millimetre or two of each court; beneath it lie layers of white limestone, clinker and gravel, so the famous surface is barely skin-deep.
Q 02Which 17-year-old Swede won the 1982 French Open, beating four of the top five seeds on the way?
Mats Wilander
Mats Wilander knocked out the seeds ranked two, five, four and three in successive rounds, and one rally in his final against Guillermo Vilas lasted 90 shots.
Q 03Where does the French Open sit in the calendar of the four Grand Slams?
Second
Second in the year, after the Australian Open and a few weeks before Wimbledon, though when it returned after the war in 1946 it was played in July, after Wimbledon.
Q 04Roland Garros, the man the French Open's venue honours, was famous as what?
An aviator and fighter pilot
An aviator and fighter pilot, Garros made the first flight across the Mediterranean in 1913 and was killed in action in 1918, a day before his 30th birthday; an old classmate had the new stadium named after him.
Q 05Who won the 1988 French Open women's final 6–0, 6–0 in just 34 minutes?
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf beat Natasha Zvereva without losing a game, the shortest women's final in the tournament's history, and went on to win all four majors and Olympic gold that year.
Q 06The first French Championships winner, in 1891, came from which country?
Great Britain
Great Britain supplied the first French champion: Briggs, an Englishman, is so obscure that his first name is unknown and record books disagree on his initial.
Q 07Until 1925 the French Championships were open only to whom?
Members of French clubs
Members of French clubs had the event to themselves until it opened to players from abroad in 1925, yet home players went on winning the men's title until an Australian took it in 1933.
Q 08The stadium at Porte d'Auteuil was built in 1928 so France could defend what?
The Davis Cup
The Davis Cup had just been won by France's four-man team on American soil in 1927, and to stage its defence at home the following year Paris needed a bigger stadium.
Q 09What is the French Open men's singles trophy called?
Coupe des Mousquetaires
Coupe des Mousquetaires honours Borotra, Brugnon, Cochet and Lacoste, the four Frenchmen who ruled 1920s tennis; each new champion's name is inscribed on the silver bowl's base.
Q 10The French Open women's singles trophy is named after which French star of the 1920s?
Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Lenglen won the title six times, and the trophy is an almost exact copy of a cup the city of Nice once presented to her.
Q 11What was the French Open's Court Philippe-Chatrier called before it was renamed in 2001?
Court Central
Court Central took the name of Philippe Chatrier, the federation president who led the campaign that returned tennis to the Olympic Games in 1988.
Q 12Which Spaniard won three French Open women's singles titles, in 1989, 1994 and 1998?
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was 17 when she won the first: the world number one served for the title at 5–3 in the deciding set of the 1989 final, but the teenager took it 7–5.
Q 13Who won the 2026 French Open for his first Grand Slam title, after losing his three previous major finals?
Alexander Zverev
Q 21Which 14-time major winner never won the French Open, managing only a semi-final in 1996?
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras found that the slow clay blunted his attacking game: on his best run, in 1996, he beat two former champions in five sets before losing the semi-final in straight sets.
Q 22Which American won back-to-back French Open titles in 1991 and 1992?
Jim Courier
Jim Courier won the first by beating his former roommate at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in the 1991 final, then kept the title a year later.
Q 23As of 2026, who is the last Frenchman to win the French Open men's singles, back in 1983?
Yannick Noah
Alexander Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli in five sets, seizing his chance in a year when the two-time defending champion was out injured; no German man had won a major since Boris Becker in 1996.
Q 14Who became the first player ever to beat Rafael Nadal at the French Open, in 2009?
Robin Söderling
Robin Söderling, the 23rd seed, had never reached a Grand Slam quarter-final, yet in the fourth round he ended Nadal's unbeaten run of 31 matches at Roland Garros.
Q 15The plaque unveiled at Rafael Nadal's 2025 French Open farewell ceremony features what?
A replica of his footprint
A replica of his footprint now sits on the court where he won 14 titles; it was unveiled at the end of a ceremony in which his three great rivals walked out to join him.
Q 16Who completed a career Grand Slam by winning his only French Open in 2009?
Roger Federer
Roger Federer had lost the previous three finals to Rafael Nadal; when Nadal was knocked out early in 2009 he seized his chance and won the final in straight sets.
Q 17Which man won six French Open finals without ever losing one, including four in a row from 1978?
Björn Borg
Björn Borg twice took the title without dropping a set, in 1978 and 1980, then stunned the sport by walking away from it in his mid-twenties.
Q 18Which woman holds the record of seven French Open singles titles?
Chris Evert
Chris Evert took the last two of her seven titles, in 1985 and 1986, by beating her great rival Martina Navratilova in the final each time.
Q 19Who is the youngest man ever to win a Grand Slam singles title, taking the 1989 French Open at 17?
Michael Chang
Michael Chang, cramping badly in the fourth round, threw in an underarm serve to rattle world number one Ivan Lendl and won in five sets, then beat Stefan Edberg in the final.
Q 20Who became the youngest ever French Open women's champion in 1990, aged 16?
Monica Seles
Monica Seles was 16 years and six months old, and in the final she saved four set points in the first-set tie-break against the world number one before winning in straight sets.
Yannick Noah was spotted at 11 by Arthur Ashe at a clinic in Cameroon; Ashe alerted the French federation, which brought the boy to train in Nice, and in 1983 he ended a 37-year wait for a home champion.
Q 24Which Brazilian won the French Open three times, in 1997, 2000 and 2001?
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten was ranked 66th when he won in 1997; in 2001 he saved a match point in the fourth round, and after winning the final he carved a heart in the clay to thank the crowd.
Q 25Which Belgian won four French Open titles between 2003 and 2007?
Justine Henin
Justine Henin won the last three of them in a row, then stunned the sport by announcing her retirement in May 2008 while she was still the reigning champion.
Q 26Which Pole won four French Open singles titles between 2020 and 2024?
Iga Świątek
Iga Świątek was ranked 54th when she won the first in 2020, thrashing the top seed in the fourth round a year after winning just one game against her at the same stage.
Q 27Which player won the 2011 French Open to become China's first Grand Slam singles champion?
Li Na
Li Na had lost the Australian Open final earlier that year; in Paris she made no mistake, sealing the title by winning the closing tie-break without dropping a point.
Q 28Which Italian won the 2010 French Open, becoming her country's first female Grand Slam singles champion?
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone, 29 and seeded 17th, beat the favourite Sam Stosur in straight sets, then fell to her knees and kissed the clay.
Q 29Which unseeded Latvian won the 2017 French Open women's title from a set and 3–0 down in the final?
Jeļena Ostapenko
Jeļena Ostapenko, ranked 47th, had never won a tour-level title; she struck 54 winners in the final and became Latvia's first Grand Slam singles champion.
Q 30Which Swiss won the 2015 French Open men's title, beating world number one Novak Djokovic in the final?
Stan Wawrinka
Stan Wawrinka came from a set down to win in four, then joked to reporters that his now-famous shorts had won him the title.