What was the longest tennis match in history?

Undoubtedly, the confrontation between the American John Isner and the French Nicholas Mahut will go down in history as the longest tennis match in the history of the white sport.

Con three days longdue to different factors, the meeting corresponding to the first round on the 2010 edition of the Wimbledom tournament will be remembered for a long time, since it began the June 22nd and concluded the June 24. At first it was discontinued and continued on the 23rd lack of light; however, upon reaching the fifth set he was suspended due to the weather.

But coming to the last set, which dragged on and ended up being the longest. The match ended with partials 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6 and 70-68 in favor of John Isner, after 11 hours, six minutes and 23 seconds on the stopwatch.

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That was not all, both tennis players broke records in the history of white sports by registering 11 hours, six minutes, with the highest number of games in a set, 138 in the fifth, the longest set was eight hours and 11 minutes; the most aces in the same game was 216 and with 183 games in the same match.