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The longest tennis match lasted over eleven hours

John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010, 70-68 in the final set

The 2010 Wimbledon first-round match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes, played over three days. The fifth set alone ran to 70-68 in Isner's favour. The scoreboard stopped working at 47-47 because it had never been programmed for such a score.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010, 70-68 in the final set. The figure is taken from Wimbledon, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.