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I am sitting here after 9 hours and this match still continues. Isner of (USA) vs. Manhut of (France)
Who else saw this match?
Saw? We're still going to see! After exactly 10 hours, play halted again due to fading light. We will continue tomorrow. The tiebreak is 59-59. The fifth set alone, so far taking over 7 hours, is longer than the previous match record of 6:33. This is nuts....and I'm not even into tennis! Hats off to both of these guys.
Yeah, this is one of the craziest things I have ever seen in any sport, not just Tennis. Izzy looked like a zombie, no idea how he was hanging in there.
And how long will the winner have to recuperate before the next match?
I heard something about them not making the winner have to play the next round, I'm not too sure, but that's what I heard when Hannah Storm and the other announcers were talking.
4.05pm: The Isner-Mahut battle is a bizarre mix of the gripping and the deadly dull. It's tennis's equivalent of Waiting For Godot, in which two lowly journeymen comedians are forced to remain on an outside court until hell freezes over and the sun falls from the sky. Isner and Mahut are dying a thousand deaths out there on Court 18 and yet nobody cares, because they're watching the football. So the players stand out on their baseline and belt aces past each-other in a fifth set that has already crawled past two hours. They are now tied at 18-games apiece.
On and on they go. Soon they will sprout beards and their hair will grow down their backs, and their tennis whites will yellow and then rot off their bodies. And still they will stand out there on Court 18, belting aces and listening as the umpire calls the score. Finally, I suppose, one of them will die.
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