Anyone For Tennis...

Well, Wimbledon was pretty bloody exciting yesterday as history was made. Play between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner was halted at a mere 59 all in the fifth set because of bad light.

This was a preposterous tennis match, the final set alone already eclipsing the previous longest match in history. Isner (who appeared to have one sleeve longer than the other for reasons which I don't fully understand) look shattered even before the 9 hour mark and I fully expected him to simply collapse on court, gifting the win to the Frenchman Mahut, however the 6 ft. 9 American dug deep and hung in there, depsite one or two of his serves representing a large Haddock attempting to free itself from a captive grasp.

Mahut certainly looked the fresher of the two, skipping along the baseline in the 30 degree heat while Isner looked as though he'd been taking part in a wet t-shirt competition, but despite this both men had chances to win the match. The games however continued to follow serve for over 6 hours and, just as the umpire looked as though he was going to fall of his perch, Mahut complained about poor visibility and play was suspended. So, at stumps of the first day it was 2 sets all, 59 games a piece in the final set. The second day starts in just under half an hour, will we have a winner before tea? I'll guess we'll have to wait and see.