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Sports Quiz
Tennis: Second Set
Yes, we have done a quiz on great Jewish tennis players, but there are so many we couldn’t get to them all! So here is another chance to rally yourself as we serve up another set of Jewish tennis stars!
1. Israel won its fist Grand Slam title in 2008! Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram beat a French duo to take a title at the Australian Open. They even got a congratulation call from Israel’s Prime Minister. Since the two of them played as a team, their match was a called a:
2. Brad Gilbert was once #4 in the world, won a Bronze in the 1988 South Korea Olympics, and once beat 4 future Hall of Famers in one tournament! His first doubles title was won in Tel Aviv. Today, he is known as a top coach for such stars as:
3. Paul Goldstein was #1 in the US in his age group when he was 16. As a grown-up, he won 12 USTA singles matches and 14 doubles, his 26 wins making him the ____ player in USTA Pro Circuit history.
4. Aaron Krickstein started playing tennis when he was six years old. He was #1 among 16-year-olds, and eventually ranked #6 in the world. In Tel Aviv in 1983, he earned the record for youngest player to ever win an ATP singles’ title; he was only:
5. Harold Solomon was in the Top Ten four times from 1976-80. He gathered 22 singles titles, including the 1980 ATP Championship and two Davis Cups. One commentator, noting how Harold never let a ball past him, borrowed a term from basketball and called him "The Human ___."
6. Justin Gimelstob began playing when he was eight; he was #1 among those his age at 14, 16, and 18. In his pro career, he had nine doubles titles, reaching #18 in world rankings for doubles. His best year was 1998, when he won both the Australian and French Opens with his mixed doubles partner:
7. Ladislav Hecht won the singles title at the first Maccabiah games in 1932, before Israel was independent. Before WWII, he was the best European player, #6 in the world, and captain of Czechoslovakia’s Davis Cup team. He was even asked to join the Nazi team; they didn’t know he was Jewish! After the war, his hometown named a ___ after him.
8. Tom Okker is one of the select few players with 100 championships, 78 of which (in his case) are for doubles. He was #4 in the world in 1968 and ’69, and stayed in the Top Ten for seven years. For five years, he was on the Davis Cup team from his European home country, which is the same as Anne Frank’s:
9. Marty Hogan is considered by many to be the top athlete in his sport. A winner of more than 100 international or national titles, Marty ranked number one or two in the world from 1976-90. He could serve the ball 142 miles an hour! The racquet is a bit shorter than in tennis, and the game is played indoors, with both players facing a wall. The sport is simply called:
10. Americans Doug Beal, Eugene Selznick and Israeli Chagai Zamir are all stars of a sport like tennis. But the net is up in the air, you use hands instead of racquets, and the ball is the size of a soccer ball. It’s called:

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