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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.
All-time tennis records – Women's singles; Open Era tennis records – Women's singles; World number 1 ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female tennis players (1921–1974) List of Billie Jean King Cup champions; WTA 1000 Series singles records and statistics; WTA 1000 Series doubles records ...
The match set at least eleven tennis records: Longest match (11 hours, 5 minutes). Longest set (the fifth set required 8 hours, 11 minutes). This set alone would have broken the previous record for longest match. Longest play in a match on a single day (7 hr 4 min was played on day 2).
Federer is the player with the longest time span (14 years) between his first and most recent dates at No. 1 (February 2004–June 2018), [23] while Rafael Nadal is the only player to hold the top ranking in three different decades, spanning 11 years and 5 months (2008–2020). Djokovic has the longest time span (12 years) between his first and ...
This match took 3 hours and 43 minutes, and is the longest in women's tennis which was not played to a finish. Angelina Gabueva won a first-set tiebreaker 17–15 over Emily Fanning in the second round of qualifying for the 2019 Lexington Challenger , and went on to win the match 7–6 (17–15) , 6–0.
Today, the ultimate pursuit in tennis is to win the Grand Slam; winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same calendar year. [13] In 1982, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) broadened the definition of the Grand Slam as meaning any four straight major victories, including the ones spanning two calendar years that became known as the non-calendar year Grand Slam, though it later ...
In 1965, Margaret Court won a record nine titles out of twelve available to a player in the same year: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. [ citation needed ] In 1985, Martina Navratilova reached the final in all Grand Slam events held that year, equaling the record of eleven final appearances set by Court ...
This is a list of Women's Tennis Association (WTA) records since its inception in June 1973. Some records additionally extend back a few more years in order to include the immediately preceding Virginia Slims Circuit era for completeness.