between a French and an American player. Tied at 59-59 in fifth set till it was called off due to bad light last evening.
They played for over 6 hours, in the 5th set alone. They played the 1st through 4th sets the previous day which was also called on account of darkness.
The previous record for a tennis match was 112 total games. They've played more than that in the 5th set alone are currently at 163 games played, with at least 2 more to come. Alas their play isn't terribly inspired, a long rally for them is about 5 shots with nearly 200 aces between them.
In England, they're used to games that take an unpredictable amount of time. It's only if they want to be aired in the US that strict time limits (minimum as well as maximum) come into play.Yeah, I heard about this on the radio tonight. What a fantastic story! Glad I'm not in charge of the schedule at Wimbledon, though. This must be messing everything up!
Mahut was then forced to enter qualifying for Wimbledon, where he was allocated a seeding of 27. He enjoyed a routine win over Canadian Frank Dancevic of in his first match, before coming up against home-hope Alex Bogdanovic in the second. After a four-hour epic, by far the most extraordinary match of the round, Mahut finally prevailed 3-6 6-3 24-22 to advance to the final qualifying round, where he played 13th seed Stefan Koubek. Things looked grim for Mahut after he lost the first two sets but he battled back to win another lengthy match 6-7 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-4. This win saw him enter the main draw of Wimbledon 2010, where he was drawn against the big-serving American John Isner in Round One. The match began on June 22 and ended on June 24 after approximately 11 hours on court, with Isner winning 70-68 in the fifth set.
They played for over 6 hours, in the 5th set alone. They played the 1st through 4th sets the previous day which was also called on account of darkness.
The previous record for a tennis match was 112 total games. They've played more than that in the 5th set alone are currently at 163 games played, with at least 2 more to come. Alas their play isn't terribly inspired, a long rally for them is about 5 shots with nearly 200 aces between them.
So neither can return a serve but both can deliver them?
Ugh.
hes even taller than thatThe american is suppose to have a very very good serve with lots of speed and angles, he's insanely tall for a tennis players at 6'7".
Hes the energizer bunny, as I said above heres what he played to actually qualify for wimbledon (isner automatically qualified) thus he was prolly wasnt 100% before he started that epic matchAnd just after this match, Mahut went for a double that was stopped after the first set due to the night.
Isner managed the shortest mens singles match today at an 1h 14 m, losing 0 2 3. He had 0 aces and apparently nothing left in the tank.