Ludicrous.

Not caring if I spoil this junk. Not one of those tennis players is even in the top 10. Much less famous at all.

Your other categories are similarly narrow.

If you're a tennis fan then they are famous - and they're all either in the top 20 or have been - sorry if I made it too difficult, was my first attempt.

Not a bad grid (especially if first attempt). I think the key is not to be testing difficult knowledge but to test the ability to unravel the crossovers with normal knowledge.

Barnaby, why leave malicious comments?

The whole point is you don't need to know every square to work out the grid. Mardy Fish is a pretty famous tennis player, two GS QFs and Isner is the marathon man from Wimbledon. I have no idea who Monaco and Simon are but an intuitive guess told me they were tennis players also.

Murrumbidgee is a pretty unique name and a standard quiz question is which English naturalist shares his name with a river.

Have you ever seen Only Connect? The grids are pretty obscure, for instance, recently a category was the names of arch designs. That's the point. Your bitterness with these comments astounds me, especially to new-gridders.

Well I, for one, thought this was a great grid!

Loved this grid. Loved it.

Not like.
Not an On connect grid for me - needs crossovers
Just a set of difficult quiz questions.

And I thought I was mean... It may not be perfect, but it wasn't terrible, it wasn't abysmal, it wasn't impossible. I only knew one of the categories - the point isn't that everyone must know everything. If you really take PuzzGrid so seriously, fair enough, but you seem to be the only one with serious complaint based on simple petty-minded "Boo-hoo, I can't get the grid". It wasn't bad enough to warrant your torrent of abuse.

Also, happy 1000th grid!

Get a life Barnaby. It's just meant to be a bit of fun.

Personally, when I see Monaco I don't think Tennis.
Pretty poor grid. I agree with qqq.