Isner hit a backhand up the line Thursday to win the last of the match’s 980 points, and he beat Nicolas Mahut in the fifth set, 70-68. The first-round marathon took 11 hours, 5 minutes over ...

From Isner’s epic 11-hour battle to Nadal and Djokovic’s grueling 5-hour semifinal, these tennis marathons pushed athletes to ...

It wasn’t, when it started, an important tennis match: John Isner, the 23rd seed, was facing Frenchman Nicolas Mahut in the first round at Wimbledon on side court No. 18. Few people in the U.S ...

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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 ...

Isner can take pride in many other signal achievements. He was a principal in the most astonishing match in tennis history, a three-day, five-set, first-round win at Wimbledon over Nicolas Mahut.