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Longest Tennis Match Ever
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These are the longest tennis matches in history:
| | Longest match ever: The incomplete Wimbledon 2010 first round match between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner played on the 22nd, 23rd of June, 2010 and scheduled to continue on June 24th, was at 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7), 6–7(3), 59–59 in the fifth and final set, after 9 hours and 58 minutes, when the game was suspended at 21:10 local time until a third day due to darkness. The duration (currently 7 hours and 6 minutes) and the number of games (118 games) of the fifth set (at the end of the second day) is the longest set in history by both time and games; and the fifth set itself was longer than the previous longest match at the end of the second day. |
| | Longest women's match: In 1984, Vicki Nelson took 6 hours, 31 minutes to defeat Jean Hepner 6–4, 7–6(11). The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history. |
| | Longest match completed in a single day: The Nelson–Hepner match above remains the longest to be completed within a single day. The 2010 Mahut-Isner match was twice suspended by darkness and lasted 2 days (so far). |
| | Longest play in a single day: The first 118 games of the fifth set of the 2010 Mahut-Isner match were played on its second day – 23rd of June and lasted 7hrs 06mins – more than the entire Nelson-Hepner or any other match in tennis history. |
| | Longest doubles match: In a 2002 Davis Cup semifinal tie, Lucas Arnold/David Nalbandian defeated Yevgeny Kafelnikov/Marat Safin in 6 hours, 20 minutes 6–4, 6–4, 5–7, 3–6, 19–17 |
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