Game, Set and (at bloody last!) Match

I watch Wimbledon but am not the biggest fan by I long stretch but the match between John Isner(USA) and Nicolas Mahut (France) certainly had me watching.

It came to its conclusion after 11 hours and five minutes or three days - almost the same length it took all the British women to be knocked out in Round One!

Isner winning 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68. Yep, as I thought when I read on the BBC's red button Wednesday and the score was 59-59 in the final set, this is a typo or some kind of joke but it wasn't.

2:30pm Thursday saw both men reappear infront of a packed Court 18 and here's how it went from there.

I like this from the Telegraph, what else was going on in the world at the time of the fifth set.

There are some crazy stats from that match as Howard Fendrich posts:

The fifth set alone...(lasted) more than 1 1/2 hours longer than any previous entire match on record.
They played 980 points, 711 in the fifth set. Isner hit 112 aces, and Mahut 103, both easily surpassing the previous single-match mark of 78

Just leave you with the thoughts of Charlotte James, who rightly says spare a thought for the people involved off the field.