longest tennis match ever
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GeordieRacer




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 21:16    Post subject: longest tennis match ever
currently on bbc2, 8 and a half hours and still going 50 games each in the final set
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ixigia
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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 21:28    Post subject:
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JeanPerrier




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 22:09    Post subject:
57 57 wtf wtf wtf


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tiedie




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 22:30    Post subject:
59:59, stopped for darkness, gonna resume tomorrow

Ridiculous, I think they broke like every Tennis record possible
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JeanPerrier




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 22:41    Post subject:
i know 2 people who are gonna sleep well tonight


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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 22:52    Post subject:
JeanPerrier wrote:
i know 2 people who are gonna sleep well tonight


Your mum and me.







































































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Lathieza




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 23:47    Post subject:
Wow ... thats really amazing. They must have been exhausted after that game.


Empty again Sad
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madmax17




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Jun 2010 14:18    Post subject:
Some crazy shit right there Shocked
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dsergei




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Jun 2010 17:55    Post subject:
70-68 Sad
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madmax17




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Jun 2010 19:44    Post subject:
That's like a basketball score Very Happy in Europe Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Jun 2010 01:20    Post subject:
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Isner finally seals victory after 11 hours of toil

Untill yesterday afternoon, a first-round encounter at the 2004 French Open between Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clement had the distinction of being the longest tennis match in history, at six hours and 33 minutes. In terms of games, the longest was the celebrated 22-24, 1-6, 16-14, 6-3, 11-9 match between Pancho Gonzalez and Charlie Pasarell, also a first-round match, at Wimbledon in 1969.

But both were knock-ups by comparison with the match that ended shortly before 5pm yesterday on Court 18: the gruelling contest between the huge American John Isner and the Frenchman Nicolas Mahut lasted 11 hours and five minutes over three days, and practically sent the online betting exchange Betfair into meltdown; the favourite changed no fewer than 2422 times in a match that ended with a scoreline for which there is not even close to being a precedent: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.

All kinds of records had tumbled before the most decisive tumble of all; Isner hitting the deck in euphoric exhaustion after delivering the final coup de grâce. The match totalled 183 games and produced 215 aces, almost equally divided between both men. As a more or less direct consequence, there were 168 consecutive service holds. Until the final game, the last break of serve had been in the second game of the second set, when Isner was broken at 0-1.

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Truly epic marathon tennis ..


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