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in the fifth set. Blinkin flip.
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John Isner and Nicolas Mahut tore up the record books as their epic first-round contest at Wimbledon became the longest in tennis history.
The match was locked at 59-59 in the final set after 10 hours of play when it was suspended because of bad light.
The decision meant that, incredibly, the contest would go into a third day, having been called off at two sets all on Tuesday for the same reason.
It will resume on Court 18 on Thursday after two other singles matches.
The final set, which began shortly after 1400 BST on Wednesday and was still going seven hours later when the sun went down, is already longer than any match ever played.
Isner, with 98, and Mahut (95) have also both smashed the previous record for the most aces, the 78 set by Ivo Karlovic in a Davis Cup tie in 2009.
The previous longest match was at the French Open in 2004, when Fabrice Santoro beat Arnaud Clement after six hours and 35 minutes.
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Holy fucking jesus...that is insane!!!
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yeh thats mad crazy. Hope it goes to 100!
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Ya, as I said in another thread, a cynic would wonder how this is possible when they were obviously both so tired.. This could only ever happen with two guys with such good serves and otherwise pretty average games.

I can see a scenario where two players like this would decide to cook something like this up if they got to the 5th set just to get into the record books ha ha.

Pretty impressive though.
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F***ing awesome!
I can totally see the determination of these two dudes both utterly determined to not give in.

And i heard something about one of them delivering what he thought was the killer blow, and turning away, only to have the other guy dive across the line and send it back at him
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This has earned so much media coverage the match has been moved to court number.....

ummmmmm..... 18. Laughing (out of 19)
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lol...why bother?
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watching heaps of tennis over here in QLD... this didnt really figure amongst all the amazing games tho
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final score was 70 - 68 in the decider.

Poor guy who won (Isner) was so buggered he got hammered by a nobody in the next round. Hardly surprising.