Wimbledon Makes History...
Jun. 24th, 2010 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phynckeI know I have been rather absorbed in World Cup football but while this has been going on, Wimbledon made history in the men's singles tennis today, well in all tennis. Longest match, ever! 11 hours long...5 sets and the last set went to 70 games. To put it in perspective --
Men's matches are best of 5 sets (3 of 5 takes it) and you have to take a set by 2 games first to 6 wins (if you win by two games). They do not allow tie breakers in the fifth set at Wimbledon which is the technicality that got this match into the wicket of lasting so long.
The last set, well no one could quite win by two games for a very long time. They kept going and going and going. One up, then the other up, one up, then the other up. This match spanned three days, 491 minutes and yes, 11 hours. Pretty darned amazing. I did not watch that much of it but caught the end.
The players were:
American: John Isner (winner of match)
Frenchman: Nicholas Mahut
Some links:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-25/fueled-by-andy-roddick-s-pizza-delivery-isner-wins-longest-tennis-match.html
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2010/06/hot_corner_history_in_the_maki.html
Anyways. Thought I would share this interesting tennis thing. Tennis was one of my sports in HS. Varsity letter in that one. Cheers! I only played JV soccer. Heh.
by bubbly
Men's matches are best of 5 sets (3 of 5 takes it) and you have to take a set by 2 games first to 6 wins (if you win by two games). They do not allow tie breakers in the fifth set at Wimbledon which is the technicality that got this match into the wicket of lasting so long.
The last set, well no one could quite win by two games for a very long time. They kept going and going and going. One up, then the other up, one up, then the other up. This match spanned three days, 491 minutes and yes, 11 hours. Pretty darned amazing. I did not watch that much of it but caught the end.
The players were:
American: John Isner (winner of match)
Frenchman: Nicholas Mahut
Some links:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-25/fueled-by-andy-roddick-s-pizza-delivery-isner-wins-longest-tennis-match.html
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2010/06/hot_corner_history_in_the_maki.html
Anyways. Thought I would share this interesting tennis thing. Tennis was one of my sports in HS. Varsity letter in that one. Cheers! I only played JV soccer. Heh.
by bubbly
