Guillermo Vilas Quiz Questions and Answers
Q1. In which Argentine city was Guillermo Vilas born on August 17, 1952?
A. Mar del Plata
B. Buenos Aires
C. Cordoba
D. Rosario
Answer: B. Buenos Aires
Q2. What is Guillermo Vilas’s playing hand and preferred backhand style?
A. Right-handed with a two-handed backhand
B. Right-handed with a one-handed backhand
C. Left-handed with a one-handed backhand
D. Left-handed with a two-handed backhand
Answer: C. Left-handed with a one-handed backhand
Q3. What was Guillermo Vilas’s height during his professional career?
A. 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
B. 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
C. 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
D. 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Answer: B. 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Q4. In what year did Guillermo Vilas turn professional?
A. 1968
B. 1970
C. 1972
D. 1974
Answer: A. 1968
Q5. Guillermo Vilas retired from professional tennis in which year?
A. 1988
B. 1990
C. 1992
D. 1994
Answer: C. 1992
Q6. What was Guillermo Vilas’s career-high ATP singles ranking, and when was it first achieved?
A. World No. 1 in 1977
B. World No. 2 in 1975
C. World No. 3 in 1974
D. World No. 4 in 1976
Answer: B. World No. 2 in 1975
Q7. How many ATP singles titles did Guillermo Vilas win in his career?
A. 48
B. 55
C. 62
D. 71
Answer: C. 62
Q8. On which surface did Guillermo Vilas win the majority of his singles titles (50 out of 62)?
A. Grass
B. Hard
C. Clay
D. Carpet
Answer: C. Clay
Q9. In his record-breaking 1977 season, how many singles titles did Vilas win?
A. 12
B. 16
C. 17
D. 18
Answer: B.16
Q10. What was Guillermo Vilas’s match record (wins-losses) in the 1977 season?
A. 145-14
B. 130-15
C. 120-20
D. 150-10
Answer: A. 145-14
Q11. Which Grand Slam tournament did Guillermo Vilas win in 1977 by defeating Brian Gottfried in the final?
A. Australian Open
B. French Open
C. Wimbledon
D. US Open
Answer: B. French Open
Q12. In which year and on what surface did Guillermo Vilas win the US Open, the last time it was played at Forest Hills?
A. 1976 on grass
B. 1979 on grass
C. 1978 on hard
D. 1977 on clay
Answer: D. 1977 on clay
Q13. How many times did Guillermo Vilas win the Australian Open, and in which consecutive years?
A. Once in 1977
B. Twice in 1978 and 1979
C. Three times in 1977-1979
D. Twice in 1977 and 1978
Answer: B. Twice in 1978 and 1979
Q14. Against whom did Guillermo Vilas defeat in the final to win the 1978 Australian Open?
A. Jimmy Connors
B. Björn Borg
C. John Marks
D. Roscoe Tanner
Answer: C. John Marks
Q15. How many Grand Slam singles titles did Guillermo Vilas win in total?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer: C. 4
Q16. In which year did Guillermo Vilas win the year-end Masters Grand Prix title (now ATP Finals) by defeating Ilie N?stase in the final?
A. 1973
B. 1974
C. 1975
D. 1977
Answer: B. 1974
Q17. What is the length of Guillermo Vilas’s longest clay-court winning streak, achieved in 1977?
A. 46 matches
B. 57 matches
C. 53 matches
D. 62 matches
Answer: C. 53 matches
Q18. Guillermo Vilas holds the Open Era record for the longest all-surface winning streak in a single year. How many matches was that streak?
A. 32
B. 46
C. 53
D. 74
Answer: B. 46
Q19. How many weeks did Guillermo Vilas hold the World No. 2 ranking during his career?
A. 45 weeks
B. 112 weeks
C. 94 weeks
D. 83 weeks
Answer: D. 83 weeks
Q20. What was Guillermo Vilas’s career singles win-loss record?
A. 851-297
B. 951-297
C. 1,051-297
D. 929-286
Answer: B. 951-297
Q21. Guillermo Vilas represented Argentina in the Davis Cup from 1970 to 1984. What was his singles record in Davis Cup play?
A. 45-10
B. 35-15
C. 50-8
D. 57-24
Answer: A. 45-10
Q22. In which year did Guillermo Vilas help lead Argentina to its first-ever Davis Cup final (lost to the United States)?
A. 1977
B. 1979
C. 1981
D. 1983
Answer: C. 1981
Q23. How many doubles titles did Guillermo Vilas win in his career?
A. 8
B. 12
C. 20
D. 16
Answer: D. 16
Q24. What was Guillermo Vilas’s highest doubles ranking?
A. No. 8
B. No. 13
C. No. 18
D. No. 22
Answer: B. No. 13
Q25. Guillermo Vilas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in which year?
A. 1985
B. 2000
C. 1995
D. 1991
Answer: D. 1991