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Knowing the timeline of Graf's relationship with Andre Agassi helped one tennis fan earn $1,000 during the game.

ByBaseline Staff

Published Jan 31, 2024

A tennis fan scored big on Jeopardy! this week. (For a moment, anyway.)

On Monday's episode of the American game show, 22-time Grand Slam singles champion Steffi Graf (and her husband, Andre Agassi) made an appearance in the $1,000 answer in the category "Women in Sports."

The answer, in the opening "Jeopardy!" round of play, named-dropped Graf's fellow Hall of Famer husband in the clue, saying: "In 2001, it was love all when Andre Agassi married this German tennis star."

Lloyd Sy, a professor of American literature originally from Rockford, Ill., answered the question correctly, which helped contribute to his $3,400 total at the end of the opening round.

(Whether the subject was worthy of $1,000—purportedly, reserved for the most difficult topics—is another matter entirely. We would've gone for the Golden Slam.)

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But Sy's tennis knowledge, unfortunately, didn't help him win it all.

Though he entered the Final Jeopardy round in first place with $19,800 to his name, he ultimately finished in third after losing $14,000 of that total on an incorrect guess to the final answer.