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The Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships is the longest tennis match in history. It was a first-round Men's singles match, in which the American 23rd seed John Isner played against French qualifier Nicolas Mahut. The match began at 6:13 pm (British Summer Time, or 17:13 UTC) on Tuesday, 22 June 2010, on Court 18 at Wimbledon.
The first round match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut set a new record for the longest tennis match in history (in both time and total of games), as well as many other records due to its length. Isner won the match, taking the final set 70–68 after a total of 11 hours and 5 minutes of play across three days. [4]
A plaque commemorating the Isner–Mahut match on Court 18 at Wimbledon.. This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games. The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for such records to be broken.
The All England Club has hosted some of the sport's longest matches, including, most famously, the longest ever: John Isner's 11-hour, 5-minute defeat of Nicolas Mahut in the first round in 2010 ...
In addition to all the records set during the match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, the following records were also established: Novak Djokovic's first-round match against Olivier Rochus was the latest-ever finish at Wimbledon, ending at 22:58, two minutes before the 23:00 curfew. [25] Djokovic won the match 4–6, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2.
Isner reached a career-best ranking of No. 8 in 2018, shortly after reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon, won 16 singles titles and has hit more than 14,000 aces, an ATP Tour record.
You should've known we were in for a marathon match when you saw American John Isner's name in the Wimbledon semifinal. Wimbledon: Anderson beats Isner in third-longest men's singles tennis match ...
The second-longest match: Isner v Anderson, July 13, 2018. This match saw Isner face similarly big-serving Kevin Anderson of South Africa. [95] The match is the longest tennis match ever in the second week of a Grand Slam tournament, both by time and number of games played.