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The longest women's match (by time) took place at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, when Vicki Nelson took 6 hours, 31 minutes to defeat Jean Hepner 6–4, 7–6 (13–11). The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history, though no video exists of this point. [15] [16]
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.
At 4 hours and 57 minutes, the match was their longest encounter in any tournament and the longest Wimbledon final in history. The match has been described as containing "insanely gripping drama" and being both mesmerizing and "mesmerizingly strange" with Djokovic referring to his win as "unreal". [30]
At six hours and 36 minutes, the match was the fourth-longest match in history and the second-longest at a Grand Slam tournament after Isner's first-round defeat of Nicolas Mahut in 2010, also at Wimbledon. [65] Analysts credited Isner's aggressive return style and strong serve-and-volley game for his success in 2018 at Wimbledon. [66]
Mahut is known for being part of the longest match in professional tennis history against John Isner in the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. He holds a number of tennis records and awards for the match, including the most points won in a single match (502) and most games won by a losing player (91). [4]
In 1969, Pasarell played Pancho Gonzales in what was, until 2010, the longest match in Wimbledon history in terms of the number of games played. The 41-year-old Gonzales finally defeated the 25-year-old 22–24, 1–6, 16–14, 6–3, 11–9 after a battle that lasted 5 hours and 12 minutes. [4]
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 ...
At 112 games and 5 hours 20 minutes it was by far the longest match of the time. [4] The match led to the introduction of the tiebreak in tennis. [5] The 112-game record lasted 41 years until the Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships.