Longeset Tennis match ever! ZOMG!

[stalker]

Tennis quality wasn't that great.. It was historic and theres nothing else to it..

Its like two guys just holding their serve (mostly by aces and after a while efforts of non-server were hardly 50%) and returning poorly, infact Isner admitted that after 20 each..It was just go out hold your serve and come back...no score line..no pushin the opponent on 2nd serve... No pressure on server..

I mean there were hardly 4-5 'break' opportunities in 138 games... What does that tell ?

Don't you think, the no giving up part in itself requires great skill?

 

[dipen01]

Being part of the history is motivation enough for not giving up.. Its takes 'skill' to take chances and break the opponents serve.. Holding your own serve is a given when you and your opponent aren't trying hard enough and are also physically exhausted to try...

So they did what every average player in their position would do - hold your own serve and wait for opponent to make mistake. As both of the players were hard hitters, so their mistakes were offsetted by their Aces. And it kept going on and on ;-)