Wimbledon Tennis Update: John Isner Wins Epic Match

Posted on June 24th, 2010 10:51am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Procrastination is part of the creative process, Silly Reasons to Celebrate

John Isner has won! (70-68 in 5th set) The 25-year old American just completed an epic tennis match at Wimbledon. Longest tennis match in history. Sorry, Nicolas Mahut. Five match points. (11 hours and five minutes!) Crazy good stuff! Umpire admits he didn’t pee for 7 hours and 25 minutes. He is getting an award. Seriously.

Isner: “It stinks someone has to lose.”

Mahut: “At this moment it is really painful, the crowd is completely fantastic and John served unbelievable. We just played the greatest match ever.”

Both served over 100 aces.  Mahut had to serve 65 times to keep serve. BBC reporter says, “Mahut looks gutted.” Love BBC.

8 comments

  1. Fantabulous effort! Was awesome to watch for the three days!

    @ 11:01 am on June 24, 2010

  2. NN, can you give us your analysis of the NBA draft tonight?

    @ 11:07 am on June 24, 2010

  3. Why didn’t ESPN broadcast the finish of this match???????

    @ 11:18 am on June 24, 2010

  4. [...] “Wimbledon tennis match” and look for the top news result. Sure enough: it’s SideDish. Makes total sense. An historic sporting moment. And the place you want to come read about it, your [...]

    @ 11:21 am on June 24, 2010

  5. SOME REPORTING!!!
    SCORE NOT GIVEN???
    TIME PLAYED NOT GIVEN???

    @ 11:23 am on June 24, 2010

  6. No, I quit the NBA long ago. I left with Kareem. Bores me now. ESPN and American television suck at Wimby coverage. I always listen to BBC radio. Much more interesting, intelligent, and about freakin tennis and not about John McEnroe.

    @ 11:26 am on June 24, 2010

  7. Wonderfull match best ever Both players need to be top ten ranking ,

    @ 12:07 pm on June 24, 2010

  8. Nancy, I swear we were separated at birth. I, too, listened to the BBC. It was very entertaining and informative. got a chuckle yesterday when GiGi, the female announcer, talked about her also needing a “toilet” break. You’d never hear Johnny Mac say that.

    @ 3:28 pm on June 24, 2010