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Tennis · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.3

The Open Era

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

How tennis opened up in 1968: the split between amateurs and professionals, the first open tournaments, the players organising, and the fight for equal prize money.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Amateurs and professionalsTake a test

  1. The majors were amateur events until the Open Era began.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  2. Professional tours paid players, but meant losing entry to the majors.

    Source: General tennis history references (ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame) · recall

  3. Turning pro shut him out of the majors until they opened in 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  4. Under-the-table payments to 'amateurs' were a known problem before 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  5. With the leading pros absent, the majors were not the best players against the best.

    Source: General tennis history references (ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame) · recall

  6. Pros played their own tours and events away from the amateur circuit.

    Source: General tennis history references (ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame) · recall

  7. He did it as an amateur in 1962 and again in the Open Era in 1969.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  8. 1962, then the pro years, the 1968 return and the 1969 Grand Slam.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  9. The ban ended with open tennis in 1968, and Laver's second Slam followed in 1969.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  10. After turning pro, Laver played the pro tours and was barred from the majors.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · applied

Test 21968: the game opensTake a test

  1. Professionals were allowed back into the majors in 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  2. Bournemouth staged the first open event in April 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  3. The British Hard Court Championships were played on clay at the West Hants Club.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  4. Rosewall became the first champion of the Open Era.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  5. Wade won the women's title but, as an amateur, could not accept the money.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  6. The ILTF ratified open tennis on 30 March 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  7. The best players could finally all meet at the majors.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  8. March vote, April at Bournemouth, then the first open Wimbledon in the summer.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  9. 1877, 1900 and 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  10. The British Hard Court Championships ran in April 1968.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · applied

Test 3The players organiseTake a test

  1. Players formed the ATP at the US Open in September 1972.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  2. Players met at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, during the 1972 US Open.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  3. The ATP backed Pilic, whose federation had suspended him over a Davis Cup tie.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  4. Most top men stayed away, showing that the players acted together.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  5. Women players formed the WTA in London in June 1973.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  6. Women players met in London in June 1973, just before Wimbledon.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  7. King beat Riggs in straight sets at the Houston Astrodome.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  8. September 1972, then June 1973 (boycott and WTA) and September 1973.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  9. 1913, 1972 and 1973.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  10. The 1973 boycott kept most of the leading men away.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · applied

Test 4Equal prize moneyTake a test

  1. The 1973 US Open was the first to pay the same to both champions.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  2. Wimbledon announced equal prize money in 2007.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  3. King received $15,000 less than the men's champion in 1972.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  4. From the US Open in 1973 to Wimbledon in 2007.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · applied

  5. A massive TV audience watched King win, boosting the case for women's sport.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  6. Once open, the majors offered prize money, and its split became an issue.

    Source: General tennis history references (ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame) · recall

  7. TV coverage helped the professional game grow quickly in the 1970s.

    Source: General tennis history references (ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame) · recall

  8. 1968, 1973 and 2007.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  9. The 1972 gap came first; the WTA was formed in June 1973 and that year's US Open, played at the end of the summer, paid equally; Wimbledon followed in 2007.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · recall

  10. 1973 is the US Open; 2007 is Wimbledon.

    Source: ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history · applied

Sources

ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Grand Slam tournaments' own histories, Davis Cup, Olympedia and ATP. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • ATP Tour and Tennis Majors, Open Era history35
  • General tennis history references (ITF history, International Tennis Hall of Fame)5