50 free Venus Williams trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Venus Williams turned pro at 14, reached her first major final at 17 and won Wimbledon five times, but her most lasting win may have been an essay: her 2006 piece in The Times shamed Wimbledon into equal prize money, and she was the first woman to collect the same cheque as the men's champion. She was the first African-American woman to be ranked No. 1 in the Open era, and she and her sister have never lost a major doubles final. These 50 questions cover the whole career: Lynwood and Compton, the Rick Macci years and the 63–0 junior record, the 1997 US Open, Sydney 2000, the four straight family finals, the 2005 and 2007 Wimbledon comebacks, the 129 mph serve, the Sjögren diagnosis and the 2017 revival, plus the interior design firm, the fashion line, the Dolphins stake and the degrees earned mid-career. Easy questions stick to the title counts and the famous matches; the expert tier asks about mixed doubles partners, book titles and year-end rankings. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more fact. Play it solo or print it for a tennis-club quiz night.
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Q 01How many Grand Slam singles titles has Venus Williams won?
Seven
Five came at Wimbledon and two at the US Open.
Q 02How many WTA Tour singles titles has Venus won?
49
Seven of them are majors, plus the 2008 WTA Tour Championships.
Q 03In which California city was Venus born in 1980?
Lynwood
The family moved to Compton when she was three, at her father's insistence.
Q 04Where did the family move when Venus was 11 so the sisters could attend Rick Macci's academy?
West Palm Beach, Florida
Richard Williams pulled them out of the academy in 1995 and took over all coaching himself.
Q 05What was Venus's record on the USTA junior tour when her father stopped entering her in events?
63–0
She was the No. 1 under-12 player in Southern California at the time.
Q 06How old was Venus when she turned professional on October 31, 1994?
14
Her only event that year was the Bank of the West Classic in Oakland.
Q 07Who beat the 17-year-old Venus in her first major final, the 1997 US Open?
Martina Hingis
The semi-final was marked by a mid-match collision with Irina Spîrlea.
Q 08In which year did Venus and her sister first meet as professionals?
1998
Venus won the second-round match and then lost to Lindsay Davenport.
Q 09With whom did Venus win the 1998 Australian and French Open mixed doubles titles?
Justin Gimelstob
Her sister won the other two that year for a 'Williams Family Mixed Doubles Grand Slam'.
Q 10Whom did Venus beat in the final to win her first major singles title at Wimbledon 2000?
Lindsay Davenport
She beat No. 1 Hingis in the quarters and her sister in the semis along the way.
Q 11Whom did Venus defeat in the 2000 Sydney Olympic singles final?
Elena Dementieva
She added doubles gold with her sister the same week.
Q 12How long was Venus's winning streak after the 2000 French Open?
35 matches
It included six tournaments and ended in the Linz final against Lindsay Davenport.
Q 13Venus and her sister controversially did not meet at which 2001 tournament after Venus defaulted?
Indian Wells
Neither sister returned for 14 years after the crowd booed the family.
How many championship points did Venus save in the 2001 Key Biscayne final?
Q 21How fast was Venus's 2007 US Open serve, a Grand Slam record at the time?
129 mph
She held the WTA fastest-serve record until 2014.
Q 22Whom did Venus beat in the 2008 Wimbledon final for her fifth title there?
Her sister Serena
It was the first time since 2001 she had beaten her sister in a major final.
Q 23Whom did Venus defeat in the final to win the 2008 WTA Tour Championships in Doha?
Vera Zvonareva
It was her first and only year-end championship title.
Q 24In which year did Venus reach No. 1 in doubles for the first time?
Eight
The win took her to a career-high No. 2.
Q 15How many sets did Venus drop on the way to the 2001 US Open title?
None
The final against her sister was the first all-sister major final of the Open era.
Q 16On what date did Venus first become world No. 1?
February 25, 2002
She was the first African-American woman to hold the ranking and the second ever after Althea Gibson.
Q 17Whom did Venus displace to become No. 1 in 2002?
Jennifer Capriati
She held the ranking for three weeks before handing it straight back.
Q 18How many consecutive major finals did Venus lose to her sister in 2002–03?
Four
Nadal and Djokovic later matched the feat of the same two players meeting in four straight major finals.
Q 19What was Venus's seeding when she won Wimbledon in 2005?
14th
She saved a match point against Lindsay Davenport in the final, the first such comeback in 70 years.
Q 20Whom did Venus beat in the 2007 Wimbledon final as the 23rd seed?
Marion Bartoli
It made her the lowest-seeded Wimbledon champion ever, breaking her own 2005 record.
2010
She and her sister had just completed a non-calendar-year Grand Slam at the French Open.
Q 25What autoimmune condition forced Venus out of the 2011 US Open?
Sjögren syndrome
She adopted a vegan diet after the diagnosis.
Q 26How many Olympic gold medals has Venus won?
Four
One in singles and three in doubles, plus a mixed doubles silver in 2016.
Q 27With whom did Venus win Olympic mixed doubles silver in 2016?
Rajeev Ram
It made her the first player to medal at four Olympic Games.
Q 28How many women's doubles majors have Venus and her sister won together?
14
They have never lost a major doubles final.
Q 29Venus's run to the 2017 Australian Open final set what Open era record?
Longest gap between major finals
Twenty years separated it from the 1997 US Open; her sister later broke the record.
Q 30Who beat Venus in the 2017 Wimbledon final?
Garbiñe Muguruza
She avenged the loss at the WTA Finals later that year.