Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
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Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
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Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#2The fifth set alone was longer than any other tennis match in history...incredible.
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#3tl;dr: The match was locked at 59-59 in the final set after 10 hours of play when it was suspended because of bad light.
Resumes for the 3rd day on Thursday. Previous best was 6:35, so this is a lot longer than the previous record.
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#4The guardian live blog is hilarious and well worth a read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-t...
"7pm: What's going on here? Once, long ago, I think that this was a tennis match. I believe it was part of a wider tennis tournament, somewhere in south-west London, and the winner of this match would then go on to face the winner of another match and, if he won that, the winner of another match. And so on until he reached the final and, fingers crossed, he won the title.
That, at least, is what this spectacle on Court 18 used to be; what it started out as. It's not that anymore and hasn't been for a few hours now. I'm not quite sure what it is, but it is long and it's horrifying and it's very long to boot. Is it death? I think it might be death.
42 games all."
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#5The guardian live blog is hilarious and well worth a read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-t... "7pm: What's going on here? Once, long ago, I think that this was a tennis match. I believe it was part of a wider tennis tournament, somewhere in south-west London, and the winner of this match would then go on to face the winner of another match and, if he won that, the winner of another match.…
"6pm: The score stands at 34-34. In order to stay upright and keep their strength, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut have now started eating members of the audience. They trudge back to the baseline, gnawing on thigh-bones and sucking intestines. They have decided that they will stay on Court 18 until every spectator is eaten. Only then, they say, will they consider ending their contest."
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#6This should be the new Energizer ad.
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#7This is the kind of story I'd expect to see on the front page of Digg. An unusually protracted game of tennis isn't really hacker news, imo.
Don't forget: when you vote something onto the front page, something else gets pushed off.
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#8Is there a service which will take a mobile/print view of an article and put you back at the canonical one, at least for major websites?
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#9We were just talking about the overtime rules of various sports at lunch today. Tennis has (to me) one of the fairest systems. The sport is aided by the fact that every serve onto the court ends in a point being scored. Basketball is also pretty high up there on the fairness scale. NFL football is terrible (we'll have to see how the new rules play out); college football is much better (but not perfect). Soccer and hockey are not good; I don't like the game being decided by a special mechanism (penalty shots/shoot out) fundamentally different from the regulation time play.
There's my unsolicted $0.02.
Re: Wimbledon 2010: Epic halted at 59-59 in fifth set
#10After a match this long, I would bet heavily that whoever wins will lose their next match. I wonder how much odds-makers will adjust odds in the next round because of this.