It’s not everyday that you get to watch a tennis match with such intensity, but the epic battle between America’s John Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon this year was not just a titanic struggle, but a fight of endurance, sportsmanship and the never-say-die attitude.
This game sets all sorts of records. Among them, the longest match (11 hours 5 minutes); longest set (the fifth set required 8 hours, 11 minutes); most games in a set (138 in the fifth set); most games in a match (183); most aces in a match by one player (Isner, 112); and total aces in a match (Mahut’s 103 aces, the second highest number by a player in a match, brought the total to 215) (source: Wikipedia)
Don’t know if we are going to see something like that again.
