Tennis sensations come and go but the match that was held two weeks ago will live on forever. In a second round match to unlikely tennis players have made it both into the record and history books. A match that lasted over 11 hours and broke record after record brought John Isner of the United States and Nicolas Mahut of France to the forefront of international sports headlines. John Isner the 23rd seed of the tournament beat Nicolas Mahut who was a qualifier.
The match began at 6:13 pm on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 and ended on Thursday, June 24th at 4:48 PM. The final set alone was 8 hours 11 minutes long. The score of the match was 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(9–7), 7–6(7–3), 70–68. A total of 183 games. To put this into perspective the last four winners of the various grand slam tennis championships averaged around 207 games for the whole tournament. The match was unprecedented and will never likely be seen again. It now holds the record for timed match, aces served, which is held by both players and points won.
It now holds the record of longest match at 11 hours, 5 minutes as well as longest set which required 8 hours 11 minutes. Most games in a set with 138 games in the fifthe set. Most games in a match at 183 Most aces in a match by one player held by Isner at 113 and total aces in a match since Mahut had 103 aces of his own which brought up the total of aces to 216 and of course maybe the most staggering statistic of all is most consecutive service games held which stand at 84 a piece for each player the total being 168. Anyone who has walked out on a tennis court knows that this is a stagering acheivement.