Keith Glass recalls his famous game with Anthony Fawcett, which featured a world-record 37 deuces on 26 May I t was the Surrey grass-court championships at Surbiton, on a Bank Holiday Monday, and it was all amateur players in those days.
It was in the days when you could play the Surrey hard-courts tournament in Sutton in April and the grass courts at Surbiton in May.
That would give the Wimbledon Championships an idea that you were still playing OK and help get you into qualifying. I had lots and lots of break-points and game-points, but in the end he beat me fairly easily.
So I thought I was in for a bit of a drubbing when I found out I was playing him in the first round at Surbiton. But the one thing in my favour was that this was on grass, which was not a surface he was that familiar with.
Everyone wants to see the end, but we'll have to come back. We play for too long, I don't know how many hours. Isner was equally complimentary of the man who had just dragged him through the toughest match of his life. He said: 'Nothing like this will ever happen again He's serving fantastic, I'm serving fantastic. That's really all there is to it.
I'd like to see stats, the ace count. We both couldn't agree to play so they cancelled. After the mammoth match was suspended, John McEnroe said: 'I'm so proud, this is the greatest advert we've ever had for our sport.
We don't get enough respect as a sport sometimes. Exhausted: Nicolas Mahut takes a tumble during the longest match in grand slam history. Marathon match: John Isner looks tired as he sits between games during his match against Nicolas Mahut. The crowd, far from bored of the game, chanted 'We want more! It's unfortunate these guys are going to be a little bit tired tomorrow It's a very special match.
I hope some way it's going to end. I know they're maybe not loving it. Normally there are breaks but John's barely moving but is still able to produce good serves. I don't know if I was crying or laughing, it was too much.
I can relate to it to some little degree - but this is beyond anything. Suspended: Court 18 at Wimbledon is almost in total darkness before the match was called off. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. But today they were put to a different use as sunshades.
Isner won the set, The match is the longest in recorded history, running just over 11 hours total over 3 days. Venus Williams won the Wimbledon Women's singles title in She defeated Serena Williams in the final. This was Venus Williams' fifth Wimbledon Singles title. Wimbledon final. River Ob. The longest Wimbledon women's final was in The match was after the first day and finally abandoned at on the second day 53 total games. Its now. There was once a set in a doubles match but it was before the introduction of tiebreak and it was the 3rd set.
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