Longest Professional Tennis Match
Yes you got it.............
Wimbledon 2010 holds the Title of the worlds longest tennis match for both in terms of TIME and Number Of SETS.
Accurate time keeping of tennis matches did not begin until 1968.
On May 24 at the 2004 French Open in Roland Garros Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clément started playing tennis but eventually darkness fell and they had to stop, but like good tennis players, they came back the next day and played some more.
After 6 hours and 35 minutes of actual playing time, spanning two days, the world's longest tennis match was over and Fabrice Santoro was the winner (6-4 6-3 6-7 3-6 16-14).
But the record was broken on June 22 to June 23, 2010 in the first round of wimbledon 2010. The match was played between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
John Isner Nicolas Mahut
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The game lasted 183 games and involved 11 hours and 5 minutes of time. Some interesting facts of this game are:
- Longest set by time and games: The fifth set of the match required 138 games played over 8 hours and 11 minutes.
- Longest play in a single day: The first 118 games of the fifth set, played on 23 June 2010, lasted 7 hours and 6 minutes. This time is longer than the entire tennis history.
- Most games in a single day: 118, on the 23 June.
THE RESULT
John Isner (left) defeated Nicolas Mahut (right) 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(7), 7-6(3), 70-68.
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