After nearly 11 hours and five minutes, the longest tennis match in history came to an end. American John Isner rallied to win the fifth set, 70-68, to defeat Nicolas Mahut of France and advance ...

The electronic sign keeping track courtside as the points passed and the game totals rose went blank while 23rd-seeded John Isner of Tampa, Fla., and qualifier Nicolas Mahut of France played—and ...

With John Isner and Nicholas Mahut's fifth set rumbling onward at Wimbledon, we got to thinking. What could you have done in the time it's taken to play this match? The fifth set is currently in ...

John Isner, Nicolas Mahut Provide Top Sports Moment of 2010The net broke, the scoreboard broke. But Isner and Mahut, in the ultimate example of sports courage and stubbornness, went on and on ...

On June 24, 2010, John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in a first-round match played over three days at Wimbledon. The match -- longest in pro-tennis history -- took 11 hours, 5 minutes and 183 games ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Nicolas Mahut walked onto the shadowless center court at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where temperatures were into the 90s and still climbing, and thought, as he ...

WIMBLEDON, England - The longest-match rematch is coming to Wimbledon: John Isner and Nicolas Mahut will play each other in the first round. Last year, the pair played the longest match in tennis ...

Factbox: John Isner v Nicolas Mahut - the records By Reuters June 23, 20103:06 PM PDTUpdated June 23, 2010 ...

Bad light: Nicolas Mahut appeals to officials as darkness begins to fall on Court 18Credit: AFP Calling it a day: John Isner is unhappy as officials suspend play on Wednesday eveningCredit: AP ...

John Isner and Nicolas Mahut have shown no signs of slowing, their first round match now dragged out to 16-16 in the fifth set—already two games longer than the epic 16-14 fifth set in the 2009 ...

On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut that would become the longest in the sports ...