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Historic infinitely long match being played at Wimbledon (1st Round) [Back on]

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Guardian Live-Blogger Guy is the best:

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.
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7pm: The umpire climbs down from his chair and starts mildly slapping the net cord with his right hand. No one knows why. John Isner winds up for a backhand and misses the ball entirely. No one knows why.

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.
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:lol :lol :lol
 
SephCast said:
AKA it's boring and terrible tennis.

If it was a high skill, enjoyable long 5 setter, I'd care, but right now, this is just slop.
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Magnus said:
For the uninitiated, what's actually happening; they're just tying repeatedly? I know nothing about tennis :lol
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no tie break in final set in this tournament, you have to win by two games.
 
Foxix said:
Crap, I tune to espn 2 and all I got was vuvezela.

Thanks gaf.
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Can you imagine if they had those during tennis? 8 hours of BBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
 
Magnus said:
For the uninitiated, what's actually happening; they're just tying repeatedly? I know nothing about tennis :lol
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Pretty much. They both have killer serves (which is how you put the ball in play) and are too tired to return the other's properly. So they keep winning on their own serve, and at Wimbledon you have to lose at least one game on your own serve to lose a fifth set.
 
levious said:
no tie break in final set in this tournament, you have to win by two games.
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I'm not sure I understand what that means, but thanks.

I mean, why is this particular game still going?
 
Blimey! I just flicked through looking for the world cup and saw this game, had to double take at the score. How are they both still standing!?
 
That guardian live blogger is AWESOME:

7.20pm: And so this match goes on and on, on and on. Somewhere along the way, the players have mislaid their names. The man who was once Mahut is now a string-bag of offal. The man who was Isner is a parched piece of cow-hide. The surviving members of the audience don't seem to care who wins. They just cheer and applaud whoever looks likely to make a breakthrough and bring this nightmare to a close. Invariably they are disappointed.

The offal looks fresher, possesses a piercing backhand and still throws itself about the court on occasion. But the cow-hide can serve and has the advantage of going ahead by one game and forcing the offal to catch-up. This the offal is only too happy to do. It hits a backhand down the line and then follows that up with an ace, and the score now stands at 45 games apiece.
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criesofthepast said:
:lol Whats going on.

This is a tiebreak?

Wait.

No way.

How is this possible.
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There's no tie break in the final set here. They play until one guy has got a 2 game gap on the other. But that never happens. Never ever ever ever.
 
Magnus said:
For the uninitiated, what's actually happening; they're just tying repeatedly? I know nothing about tennis :lol
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Tennis matches are comprised of "service games" in which two players take turns serving.

In the first "set" (collection) of service games, the first player to reach 6 games with an advantage over the other of 2 games (i.e. 6 games to 4 games), wins that first set.

If they both make it to 6 games all with no advantages, they play a tiebreak and the winner of the tiebreak wins the set.

The same applies to the second set.

The same applies to the third set. And the fourth.

In men's tennis, it's a best of five sets. First man to win at least 3 sets wins. So a fifth and final set is played when they each win two sets.

But there's no tiebreak in the fifth set.

So the first person -- again -- to reach 6 games or more with an advantage of 2 games over the other, wins the entire match.

That hasn't happened yet. And there's no time limit for it to happen by.
 
For those watching: Do they have any cardio left? I just picture two exhausted men lazily trodding back and forth, carelessly swiping at slow-moving tennis balls :P
 
Magnus said:
Again, I have no idea what that means, but thanks
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In order to win a round, they must obtain 40 points plus a final point. In order to win the match, one of the players must win two rounds more than the opposing player.
 
Peru said:
There's no tie break in the final set here. They play until one guy has got a 2 game gap on the other. But that never happens. Never ever ever ever.
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Yeah I got confused for a second. This is insane. 47 fucking games each?

Aren't they in the 3rd round already? And this is still a first round match? lol
 
Amazing!!
7.30pm: Let it end, let it end, it's 46-all. It was funny when it was 16-all and it was creepy when it was 26-all. But this is pure purgatory and there is still no end in sight. John Isner has just struck his 90th ace. Nicolas Mahut, poor, enfeebled Nicolas Mahut, has only hit 72. Maybe we should just decide it on the number of aces struck? Give the game to Isner and then we can all crawl into our graves.
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BowieZ said:
Tennis matches are comprised of "service games" in which two players take turns serving.

In the first "set" (collection) of service games, the first player to reach 6 games with an advantage over the other of 2 games (i.e. 6 games to 4 games), wins that first set.

If they both make it to 6 games all with no advantages, they play a tiebreak and the winner of the tiebreak wins the set.

The same applies to the second set.

The same applies to the third set. And the fourth.

In men's tennis, it's a best of five sets. First man to win at least 3 sets wins. So a fifth and final set is played when they each win two sets.

But there's no tiebreak in the fifth set.

So the first person -- again -- to reach 6 games or more with an advantage of 2 games over the other, wins the entire match.

That hasn't happened yet. And there's no time limit for it to happen by.
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Thanks so much!

So this set (and therefore the match) would end if the score reached 50-48 or 51-49, etc?
 
ChefRamsay said:
For those watching: Do they have any cardio left? I just picture two exhausted men lazily trodding back and forth, carelessly swiping at slow-moving tennis balls :P
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Apparently they're still hitting 120 mph volleys. :o
 
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