{"id":23935,"date":"2024-01-12T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolfgangsport.com\/?p=23935"},"modified":"2024-01-12T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T04:32:39","slug":"longest-tennis-match-in-history-isner-vs-mahut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolfgangsport.com\/longest-tennis-match-in-history-isner-vs-mahut\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest Tennis Match in History: Isner vs. Mahut"},"content":{"rendered":"

The longest tennis match in history was nothing short of extraordinary. The towering and lanky John Isner first came up against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut in the Round of 32 at the Cinch Championships in 2008. Mahut won in straight sets in a game that lasted only 72 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few years later in the first round of Wimbledon in 2010, Isner would get his revenge following a win that took 11 hours and 5 minutes, more than four hours longer than the next <\/span>longest tennis match in history.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The game started on the 22nd of June. It finished on the 24th, three days later. 183 games in total. And the fifth and final set alone lasted for 8 hours and 11 minutes. Even the final set itself was longer than the second longest tennis match of all time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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13 years ago today, at the exact time of this tweet, Isner-Mahut concluded<\/p>\n

\u2018If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same\u2019 pic.twitter.com\/ponyXYvA70<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) June 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n