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John Isner USA Beats All Records in the Longest Tennis Match
This article will be dedicated to tennis records and incredible stamina. The public has learned from the press that John Isner is the real champion among other tennis players in terms of his awesome stamina. He broke the record when he spent more than eleven hours slugging it out against his rival – Nicolas Mahut […]
This article will be dedicated to tennis records and incredible stamina. The public has learned from the press that John Isner is the real champion among other tennis players in terms of his awesome stamina.
He broke the record when he spent more than eleven hours slugging it out against his rival – Nicolas Mahut from France. The game took place on Wimbledon’s Court 18 and lasted for three days. Finally, John Isner managed to win that match with the following results: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.
The game started on Wednesday but was in the end suspended because of darkness. The players left the court on the first day with a score of 59-59 in the final fifth set.
Then the competition was proceeded on Thursday and dragged till Friday. The readers may feel that John Isner should have been exhausted, sleep-deprived and sore on the last day of his epic tennis struggle. Nothing of the kind! The tennis star left his comments on Tweeter that he felt perfectly before the final. He even used the following phrase to describe his condition in a more precise way: he felt “on a million bucks” just several hours before going back to court.