This is a picture of John Isner winning the longest tennis match in history against Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010.
The match began on 22 June. On what day did it finish?
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24 June
That’s right. Because Wimbledon doesn’t do tiebreakers in the fifth set, it took up over 11 hours of playing time, and the fifth set alone was longer than the previous record.
The scoreboard had to be reprogrammed because it wouldn’t go past 47-47. Isner lost his next match the following day in 74 minutes, the shortest match of the tournament. Serena Williams won the ladies tournament, and won all her matches in less time than this one match.
I remember that match taking 3 days, and the final set was just going on serve.
Never cared much for tennis, but this fact was far too interesting not to turn into a question.