The record books will say that John Isner won that match. But something that must not be forgotten is how the odds were against Mahut in that final set. He was serving second against a better singles player, with a better serve and slightly better returns. And Mahut still managed to hold serve against the ropes for 68 games. That, in my opinion, was what made that odyssey of a game possible. Isner should have won it way before and he was virtually unbreakable. It was Mahut’s gigantic play and mental strength that made this the most epic tennis match in history.
It's not about losing or winning, it's about giving all what they had. None of them gave up and fought for every point. Then, win or lose, they were still both second-rank player that could not pass the next round. That's why they are really two great professionals, they fought till the very end, knowing that they would not go far in the tournament anyway...
I wasn't there for this match, but saw them the following year when they were drawn against each other in the first round again. It was a very different story with Isner winning in straight sets against an injured Mahut - the most remarkable thing about the match for me was spotting Mohamed Lahyani (who umpired their original match) in the crowd! 11+ hours clearly wasn't enough for him. 😁
That poor man at 7:30 expecting to record the final match point... They were 32-33. He had to wait just 40 games more to have his video. Im sure his phone battery was 0%...)
Augustin Abraham Don't know what to say about this, ideal is to put 2 commentators in the cabin so each of them can go to the toilet while the other one remains, otherwise he would die in the cabin 😂😂
Those speeches and rewards must of been hard for Nicolas to do considering he just lost after an incredible 11 hours and 5 minutes long match and he was such a good sport and praised John and wasn’t salty about it ❤️ well done
Legends said that they were still playing to this day, while all other rivals are playing at the Australian Open 2019. The 70-68 ending was just faked by NASA.
At least they fixed the scoreboard technology / software overnight. I thought they had to bring back old non-electronic scoreboards for third day when I watched this in live. Organizers were lucky that score didnt go over 99-99, they didnt have a room for 3-figure scores .
Just look at 25:41. I'm feeling goosebumps by seeing these two athletes having a pose by the scoreboard with 70-68 written over it. Wimbledon really should take a photo of their pose and should keep it in their historical museum as a memoir. After 100 years our grandchildren would watch this photo after which they will go crazy. Really a historical pose and a historical moment. I don't know why am I feeling goosebumps after watching them pose by the scoreboard.
Feeling pity over the commentators... damn... started like for an hour or 2, may be at maximum 3... trying to figure out some thing new to say at more than 200 aces
stoned soul I think this match apparently set a commentary record also, the longest ever unbroken commentary stint in any sport I think, and this commentator was working his very first match!
How exactly is having to win a first round match in a 5th set 70-68 epic? Past 20-20, it's just nonsense, whoever won had a serious disadvantage in the next round (Isner got demolished in the 2nd round of course). As with deuces, I believe at a certain point there should be a tiebreak or no-ad of sorts, this was excruciating to watch
Remarkable match. This match was during the week we had an tournament at our club. I remember this match played in the club house on the beamer. Outside 30 degrees, but 100 people we're locked inside for 3 days watching this match. The commentary was played also on the speakers outside, so the players in a match could follow the game.
Fun facts: - Each player won his service since the second game of the second set until the end - 164 new balls were used during the match - Isner hit 113 aces and Mahut hit 103 - 980 points were played and Mahut won 502 of them... Isner won only 478 !
The highlight is funny.4 sets in 2 minutes,and the fifth set in 20 minutes.The most exciting game ever.I think Mahut really wanted to cry when he lost this game.
DrummerBoyJack I would. Nadal commented about this match on his Facebook page as this was going on. And the more he commented is how I knew this match was still going on.
What is admirable, it's that they are both "second-rank" players. None of them could hope to reach the finals (John Isner got destroyed the second round), and yet they still fought till the very end.
This match is the reason why tiebreaks should decide the outcome in the 5. set ... in every grand slam, especially Wimbledon where the ball does not lose any speed when hitting the ground
Unfortunately for us every time a match goes past 6 all in the 5th set we get commentators saying "We are heading into Isner-Mahut territory now". So annoying.
After watching this game, I tend to believe that, as number of games increase and increase, the limit is having two competitors enough tired to be unable to win 2 consecutive games... So, the more they play, the more likely to keep playing for entire life :.)
7 Days in Hell was inspired by this match. ****SPOILER ALERT**** The two competing players went on to go beyond 100 games all, in the final set. The match took 7 days, and in the final day, due to extreme fatigue and tiredness, played for 12-14 hours a day, both players collapsed and died. So theoretically they could go on playing this exact match for the rest of their lives.
*Took 8 years to highlight*
Dan Drum lol 😜 I noticed that only after seeing your comment.. first I thought why am I watching this now LoL 😋😂
John Basumatary hahaha
7 and half years, check your math next time dude!
Video was edited, rendered, and uploaded from IBM 1. Thus the upload time.
Dan Drum i
During the match ball boys got a little bit older. One of them got mustache
Ahror Muminov lol 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
XDD
New ballboys, please
That was actually the boy's son
Legend has it that they faked the ending and they’re actually still playing now.
In The Beginning Was The Word Hilarious XD
entropy consumes the universe, and there would still be isner and mahut vying for racket sport supremacy
Legend says they're actually playing right now score is 945-944
@@soldisoldi959 isner serving
@@soldisoldi959
Mahut 479438
Isner 479438
Mahut went on to play doubles later the same day. Crazy.
taskview did he won it
he’s a fantastic doubles player and the bryan bros kryptonite
He won every grand slam with Herbert in doubles.
He had to retire after first set
And I believe John Isner in the next round despite looking absolutely knackered played next day and won in straight sets. How does that work.
Mahut had an enormous disadvantage serving second in the 5th set
And yet he dealt with it pretty well, eh? How could he do that? Because John Isner has no return.
Neither of the players here had any good return game...lol. That is why it took so long
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well he should’ve won the original coin toss so it could’ve wound up that way
@Sean Q Isner isn't the Best server Ever. probably hardest server Ever tes But not the GOAT , the Best server is Federer.
After these guys finished their match, the other half of the draw already had a finalist.
Haha it was only 2 days good joke though. No one played past round 3
Didn't Isner lose in the second round? (After playing a match equivalent to about 14 sets)
@@swindeYes, John lost in straight sets to Thiemo de Bakker in the second round, in what was the shortest match of the championship.
Wow, so funny, such humour. Wow
The record books will say that John Isner won that match. But something that must not be forgotten is how the odds were against Mahut in that final set. He was serving second against a better singles player, with a better serve and slightly better returns. And Mahut still managed to hold serve against the ropes for 68 games. That, in my opinion, was what made that odyssey of a game possible. Isner should have won it way before and he was virtually unbreakable. It was Mahut’s gigantic play and mental strength that made this the most epic tennis match in history.
Elton Alonso Pompeu ghg
doesn’t matter
lol bro it wasnt mahuts gigantic play, it was just isners sucking return :D
@@MP_Tennis it was both
The fact that it took 70 games for Isner to break Mahut shows really how terrible he was outside of serving
Federer's long lost brother 8:10
lol hahahaha
lol lol lol
Check your vision
Paused to check if it was him
😂😂😂
Imagine losing this match ... that would be like the worst feeling ever
It's not about losing or winning, it's about giving all what they had. None of them gave up and fought for every point.
Then, win or lose, they were still both second-rank player that could not pass the next round. That's why they are really two great professionals, they fought till the very end, knowing that they would not go far in the tournament anyway...
Mahut took it well
Damn the amount of match points bahut saved when serving 2nd in 5th set was amazing
I wasn't there for this match, but saw them the following year when they were drawn against each other in the first round again. It was a very different story with Isner winning in straight sets against an injured Mahut - the most remarkable thing about the match for me was spotting Mohamed Lahyani (who umpired their original match) in the crowd! 11+ hours clearly wasn't enough for him. 😁
lol 32-33 in the fifth set and its only 4:32 into a 25 min HIGHLIGHTS reel lol ... both should have gotten a medal
lol..watch the end, they gone one for each
The scoreboard gave up. Lol
Mahut’s face says it all standing next to Isner and the scoreboard.
Bada Bing888 haha it does!!
It is ok. Mahut became a doubles legend after a few years.
I've thought the same thing. A match like this is euphoria for the winner and devastation for the loser.
Imagine if this happened in the finals of any grand slam
Neetu Choudhary Sava
Only good players make it there. Not these lightweights who can’t close out a match.
happening right now lol
I doubt Isner is a lightweight.
Carly Maddison Strange considering Anderson has made the final after being in a game quite like this
Mahut had only 3 break point chances the entire match...
Did he have any in the 5th?
Mike Hamilton Yes, at 50-50
Wow... guess it's the serve strength of Ishner even after this extreme distance
The interview after the match made it seem like a final.... what a match though!
Anyone after djokovic-federer game?
me lol
Here
If it got this way aka no tiebreak, Federer would've won believe me, Novak won all his sets on tiebreak yesterday smh, Roger was better imo
me lol courtesy of tennis dot com
Me
That poor man at 7:30 expecting to record the final match point... They were 32-33. He had to wait just 40 games more to have his video. Im sure his phone battery was 0%...)
It would actually be closer to 80 more games
Woa that strength for 2 players
11 hour play tennis
😍
It was with pause but still. Wow
Anyone here after Kevin Anderson Vs John Isner Wimbledon 2018 Semi-Final?
Me haha
ye
me :D
meeee
Yep lets go Kevin🇿🇦
I am laughing at Isner having match point at 10-9 in the fifth set, and they were barely though 1/3 of the games they'd play in the whole match.
Finally. After 8 years ffs!
Poor ball boys :)
Emil Wedenby Ball boys and line umpires change, but poor chair umpire who had to sit in his chair for hours/days lol
Andrei Stanescu what about the commentators 😄😄😄. Damn.. commenteing on every aces
Augustin Abraham Don't know what to say about this, ideal is to put 2 commentators in the cabin so each of them can go to the toilet while the other one remains, otherwise he would die in the cabin 😂😂
Ballkids get swapped out every 30 mins- 1 hour so they wouldn't have cared
One of my favorite sports trivia questions, is who served the second most aces in an ATP match...It's Mahut. Most than 25 more than Karlovic's best
Only Mahut is shown serving, with numerous aces (103). But Isner actually had more aces (113). Crazy match.
The physical and mental strength they have is amazing. Seriously so much respect for Mahut and Isner ❤️
Mahut lost the match but the match points he saved given the situation were incredible, and his ability to not let his nerves get to him
They should make a movie about this memorable match.
they already have, although not a great one (7 days in hell)
Those speeches and rewards must of been hard for Nicolas to do considering he just lost after an incredible 11 hours and 5 minutes long match and he was such a good sport and praised John and wasn’t salty about it ❤️ well done
25:25 Mahut is secretly cashing in on the hair gel endorsement, which kept his coiff for 11h5m.
Legends said that they were still playing to this day, while all other rivals are playing at the Australian Open 2019. The 70-68 ending was just faked by NASA.
😂
At least they fixed the scoreboard technology / software overnight. I thought they had to bring back old non-electronic scoreboards for third day when I watched this in live. Organizers were lucky that score didnt go over 99-99, they didnt have a room for 3-figure scores .
This match took time more than whole Federer's match in wimbledon 2017.
Mahut in the thumbnail=worst feeling ever
Cant even watch the 25 minute highlights, had to forward it... lol..
When does the rally start
A wonderful match, a record of games that will never be broken
How is he going to play the second round.
he lost
He got destroyed by Thiemo de Bakker in round 2
Did he play the same day? or did they give him the afternoon off for "suitable rest"?
satjiwan He Play the same day 'cause that match took 3 days !
He lost in 74 minutes, the shortest Wimbledon match to that point.
What a memorable match that was!
Djokovic and Nadal AO fimal was epic too. Until they could not stand and had to have chairs during speeches from the presidents.
Just look at 25:41. I'm feeling goosebumps by seeing these two athletes having a pose by the scoreboard with 70-68 written over it. Wimbledon really should take a photo of their pose and should keep it in their historical museum as a memoir. After 100 years our grandchildren would watch this photo after which they will go crazy. Really a historical pose and a historical moment. I don't know why am I feeling goosebumps after watching them pose by the scoreboard.
Feeling pity over the commentators... damn... started like for an hour or 2, may be at maximum 3... trying to figure out some thing new to say at more than 200 aces
stoned soul I think this match apparently set a commentary record also, the longest ever unbroken commentary stint in any sport I think, and this commentator was working his very first match!
Isner 113 and Mahut 103 aces.
The only match that change the rules of tennis. One of the greatest match ever.
Epic. Not possible at the US open.
It's possible i think time-wise but you'd have to have the most unbelievably long 5th set tiebreak ever xD
One of my tennis wishes is to see the US Open final played in the fifth set tiebreak I don't know if that ever happened before but it will be epic.
How exactly is having to win a first round match in a 5th set 70-68 epic? Past 20-20, it's just nonsense, whoever won had a serious disadvantage in the next round (Isner got demolished in the 2nd round of course). As with deuces, I believe at a certain point there should be a tiebreak or no-ad of sorts, this was excruciating to watch
@Dman9fp No, this was indeed epic. As is your douchery.
Your comment was excruciating to read.
Remarkable match. This match was during the week we had an tournament at our club. I remember this match played in the club house on the beamer. Outside 30 degrees, but 100 people we're locked inside for 3 days watching this match. The commentary was played also on the speakers outside, so the players in a match could follow the game.
Who else is here because of Anderson game?
Mahut serving aces at 125 mph at 49-50 to stay in the match...what a contender.
Who's here after Anderson vs. Isner Semi-Final Match?!. 🍀
24:32 Nicolas is so tired he forget to take the ball out of his pocket after the match :(.
😂
Anderson had a 26-24 fifth set thriller win to isner today after 6h36
After that match wimble made tiebreak after 12-12
This match was Ronald McIntosh’s first ever Wimbledon commentary. Talk about a baptism of fire.
2018 Miami Open Champ! :)
Tennis is the hardest sport in the world. Period
That moment when highlights start at 2 sets all and goes on for 25minutes
Finally Wimbledon did it!!!
Fun facts:
- Each player won his service since the second game of the second set until the end
- 164 new balls were used during the match
- Isner hit 113 aces and Mahut hit 103
- 980 points were played and Mahut won 502 of them... Isner won only 478 !
Gupsaud only 156 new balls
Whatching this while federer is playing in the final against djokovic. We are 10game to 10game, idk who will win.
@Tom R 💔 federer choked in that match
Basketball game score
as the late great bobby heenan once said "there are no winners in a match like... in fact whoever win this one is gonna be a loser anyway"
ranking points up for grabs
and don't forget prize money
certainly in Mahuts case.
They're both winners in my books.
Anderson 2:2 Isner
Fifth set 18:19...5 hours 52 minutes
13.07.2018.
Something only you'd see from an American and Frenchmen. Stubbornness, passion and pure joy made this possible.
took 8 years to upload to youtube
Wow this was 10 years ago?! Time flies :( I wanted Mahut to win
Isner did it again. 2018
Why did they not have any highlights of isner serving?
Si John Isner avait perdu, il aurait pu dire : " Nicolas m'a eu ".
10 Years Today Ladies and Gents!
Imagine watching the whole game
Mahut was a great sport.
The highlight is funny.4 sets in 2 minutes,and the fifth set in 20 minutes.The most exciting game ever.I think Mahut really wanted to cry when he lost this game.
Anywhere I can watch the full match?
planetX15 It took 8 years for 25mins highlights, so it would be 200 years for full match...
I have looked myself and haven't found anything. But seriously, how do we expect to sit through over 11 hours of tennis?
Why?
ESPN2 re-airs this match every year. I'm actually watching it right now, July 1st, 2018, it's 63-63
DrummerBoyJack I would. Nadal commented about this match on his Facebook page as this was going on. And the more he commented is how I knew this match was still going on.
And that is why the super tie-breaker was made
Honestly surprised either of them ever played again after this match. The physical and mental endurance this must have taken.
The greatest match of all time!
Two great tennis players. Difference between them was literally ~1/100.
OMG the best game ever and for ever
If these Guys NEVER do anything else...
They will be remembered for this
What is admirable, it's that they are both "second-rank" players. None of them could hope to reach the finals (John Isner got destroyed the second round), and yet they still fought till the very end.
Isner was to have yet another marathon encounter in 2018 when he lost 26-24 to Kevin Andersen in the semis
THIS IS INSANE. HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THIS UNTIL 2018???
Ur dead
Never shows Isner’s serve though?
Both were all serve no return that’s why it lasted so long
funny thing is they met up first round next year again
yess I'd like to see Isner's face, realizing that it's still Mahut his opponent hahaha
CmonCmon John, we wanna go home
This match is the reason why tiebreaks should decide the outcome in the 5. set ... in every grand slam, especially Wimbledon where the ball does not lose any speed when hitting the ground
Longest Tennis Match Ever
How long?
@@gaedordx7884 over 11 hours long
This year: Isner and Anderson!
What if this match never ended
Even the Electronic Score board gave up
Biggest celebration for a first round match
Does Wimbledon organizer have full video of this century matchz?
I bet Mahut will forever cherish that momento 🙄😅
nightmare*
the match where the ball boys became ball men
Mahut deserved way more to win. John Isner only stayed in that match because of his serve. Every rally he lost.
Makes me wonder if it was arranged, I mean the odds for neither of them to break the other's service game over 138 games makes me wonder.
Unfortunately for us every time a match goes past 6 all in the 5th set we get commentators saying "We are heading into Isner-Mahut territory now". So annoying.
Who wants to watch this game in 2020?
Mahut’s face at the end though :)))))
Mahut looked liked an athletic Sid Vicious in this match!!
Respect ✊ champion
After watching this game, I tend to believe that, as number of games increase and increase, the limit is having two competitors enough tired to be unable to win 2 consecutive games...
So, the more they play, the more likely to keep playing for entire life :.)
7 Days in Hell was inspired by this match.
****SPOILER ALERT****
The two competing players went on to go beyond 100 games all, in the final set. The match took 7 days, and in the final day, due to extreme fatigue and tiredness, played for 12-14 hours a day, both players collapsed and died.
So theoretically they could go on playing this exact match for the rest of their lives.