Are absolute legends of sport. Complete and utterly unbelievable superhuman people. In can yu don't know the score between them at Wimbledon currently is 2-2 sets and 56-56 in the 5th. All records are broken. Most aces (both) longest match. The 5th set is longer than any other match in history. The 5th set is currently longer then it took Serena Williams to win the entire Wimbledon.
Just, wow.
58-57 Isner. Still with serve.
59-58. They may stop soon and continue tomorrow. Over 9 hours gone. Just ridiculous.
Play suspended at 59-59!! These guys are unbelievable. Match continues tomorrow.
crazy. has it been well-played?
OH!! I am way behind, I thought ESPN was showing it live. But of course doesn't make sense based on time zones, now that I think about it.
But what an absolutely crazy game. How can these guys still walk? leave alone keep going at this level. Once in a lifetime opportunity to see something like this.
10hours of crazy tennis. Dang, thats a lot of running.
shame that tennis has turned into a who can serve better competition. they need to go back to the old racquets.
Isner wins!!!!! 70-68!!!!! Unfrickinbelievable!!
This is like if Vanderbuilt played a 8-OT game against Loyola in the first round of the tourney.
I don't really see the big deal. These aren't the games greats.
You could take two guys who never played tennis, as long as they're evenly matched, it could take a while for one to win by 2.
What the hell am i supposed to be impressed with?
kam77 wrote:This is like if Vanderbuilt played a 8-OT game against Loyola in the first round of the tourney.I don't really see the big deal. These aren't the games greats.
You could take two guys who never played tennis, as long as they're evenly matched, it could take a while for one to win by 2.
What the hell am i supposed to be impressed with?
Over 11 hours two dudes playing. Eddy plays 10 games in two years, these guys played 11 hours over 3 days, but they played 7 hours yesterday.
You don't have to be impressed, but the rest of the sporting world is.
Its like soccer, some don't care, but a lot do.
YOur not impressed thats one thing, but I am not impressed with your analogy either.
Nalod wrote:kam77 wrote:This is like if Vanderbuilt played a 8-OT game against Loyola in the first round of the tourney.I don't really see the big deal. These aren't the games greats.
You could take two guys who never played tennis, as long as they're evenly matched, it could take a while for one to win by 2.
What the hell am i supposed to be impressed with?
Over 11 hours two dudes playing. Eddy plays 10 games in two years, these guys played 11 hours over 3 days, but they played 7 hours yesterday.
You don't have to be impressed, but the rest of the sporting world is.
Its like soccer, some don't care, but a lot do.
YOur not impressed thats one thing, but I am not impressed with your analogy either.
What he said. The marathon aint nothing on what these two guys went through yesterday.
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I found the ending of Isner/Mahut satisfying, but wish they had answered more questions.
It was a first round matchup between two unknowns.
Sorry, that's not impressive. Thats scrubs who can't find a return game.
Just cuz it takes a long time to determine the outcome of an event doesn't make it a great event.
We've been "sportscentered"
Grand slam winners play over two weeks 210-220 Games enroute to winning.
These cats played 185.
As marathons go, it was was epic.
As far as it being a great tennis match NOBODY said as it was.
From a mental concetration standopoint, it was outstanding display of it. If you understand that the french dude was facing defeat 65 times!!!
I know its cute to be all trying to be funny like dudes say how boring soccer is or low scoring Hockey is but there are thngs that happens that should be appreciated for what they are. The Tennis match created a buzz. It was an event than never even came close to happening before.
Maybe its been overhyped, but what in the hell is not.
Lebron passes wind its a major story.
I'm not bashing soccer or hockey. I appreciate soccer very much. I'm not a hockey fan but i never said anything bad about it.
I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.
Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.
kam77 wrote:I'm not bashing soccer or hockey. I appreciate soccer very much. I'm not a hockey fan but i never said anything bad about it. I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.
Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.
How many tennis players ever get the opportunity to play at Wimbledon? I completely disagree with your take on this match in the sense that both players could have thrown in the towel and just accepted defeat. So for me I don't care if this Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal or Joe Schomoe vs Joe Schomoe 2 it' still an achievement. Matches like this reminds the rest of us why we're sitting in front of a computer and not smashing a ball at Wimbledon.
bitty41 wrote:kam77 wrote:I'm not bashing soccer or hockey. I appreciate soccer very much. I'm not a hockey fan but i never said anything bad about it. I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.
Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.
How many tennis players ever get the opportunity to play at Wimbledon? I completely disagree with your take on this match in the sense that both players could have thrown in the towel and just accepted defeat. So for me I don't care if this Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal or Joe Schomoe vs Joe Schomoe 2 it' still an achievement. Matches like this reminds the rest of us why we're sitting in front of a computer and not smashing a ball at Wimbledon.
If its about Stamina, i'll go with a 12 round boxing match. Watching that much tennis is absurd. Y'all aint tennis FANS are you? Did anyone here watch the match, the whole thing? Man up! Y'all just repeating what they told you on sportcenter.
kam77 wrote:bitty41 wrote:kam77 wrote:I'm not bashing soccer or hockey. I appreciate soccer very much. I'm not a hockey fan but i never said anything bad about it. I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.
Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.
How many tennis players ever get the opportunity to play at Wimbledon? I completely disagree with your take on this match in the sense that both players could have thrown in the towel and just accepted defeat. So for me I don't care if this Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal or Joe Schomoe vs Joe Schomoe 2 it' still an achievement. Matches like this reminds the rest of us why we're sitting in front of a computer and not smashing a ball at Wimbledon.
If its about Stamina, i'll go with a 12 round boxing match. Watching that much tennis is absurd. Y'all aint tennis FANS are you? Did anyone here watch the match, the whole thing? Man up! Y'all just repeating what they told you on sportcenter.
I'll man up. It's my home slam, I watched it. This wasn't via SS for me, it was live. Let me put it to you this way Kam. In today's game the undisputed king of the serve is Ivo Karlovic. He's 6'8 and puts it anywhere he wants. So why isn't he the no 1 player in the world? Because sport, like life has an ebb and flow and you can't keep such a high standard up for an entire game. You have to adapt. But these two guys, they held serve for 137 games in a row!!! The kind of physical stamina and mental intensity required to do that is unfathomable to normal people like you and me. You might have a point that this wasn't classic tennis in a Fed, Rafa, Murrey, NoDjo kind of way but what it was was an incredible display of tennis nonetheless. Yesterday, these two guys kept it up for 7 hours, with 3 minute breaks every 3 games and not one comfort break between them. That's 5 hours longer the a basketball game, hockey game or soccer game. It's the equivalent of about 100 rounds of boxing (with breaks every three rounds). It was like Ray Allen and Reggie Miller playing horse for 685 rounds and not missing. I truly can't get how you don't see the sporting genius in this. If it was so easy, then how come it has never come close to being done before?
