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indiana


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The resumed game is not on the schedule of play, which I presume came out while they were still playing away.

The third and final match down for Court 18, a court they'll know quite well is Thiemo De Bakker  vs   Nicolas Mahut or John isner  biggrin   De Bakker of course will be fresh after only having to come back to polish off his match with the chickenfeed of a 30 game final set earlier today.

John Inverdale was discussing with Mac and Henman about whether they should move Isner vs Mahut to Centre tomorrow to put before The Queen.  I think it was Mac that was in favour but my concentration was away a bit after all that tennis watching ( edit : I see from LT that it was Mac in favour ).  Those players only have to play  wink.gif

I am guessing it willl continue on Court 18 tomoprrow and I feel that would be the right decision.  It will always be remembered as an epic, and it is a court 18 epic where it has been played over these 10 hours or whatever.  Don't muck around with it, don't bring that change and uncertainty into play, let it finish where it started, these two already will be history wherever they finsih their match.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 23rd of June 2010 09:11:32 PM

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theoop has beenr evised again, thye are 3rd on 18

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Lol, you two have had your brains addled by the epicness that is "ISNER VS MAHUT"?

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Count Zero wrote:

theoop has beenr evised again, thye are 3rd on 18



Guess the winner can play De Bakker at nught under the Centre Court lights  wink.gif

I see that as well as actually posponing the De Bakker vs Isner / Mahut match, the Youzhny vs Matthieu match is not on the revised schedule.  That's probablty the fairest all round, since I had been thinking it was a bit unfair for De Bakker to have to potentially play successively on Friday / Saturday against an opponent who had had Friday off.



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I was wondering how they were going to deal with that. I'm glad they've tried to make it the fairest possible for not only the winner of Isner/Mahut but De Bakker vs the winner and onwards. With an epic first round match like this only ending on the day that everyone else (in the bottom half of the draw) is starting their second round... No way could Mahut or Isner, whoever wins, play the second round match on Thursday. Even put back to Friday, when the third round matches of the top half get underway, will be pushing it for the winner. Imagine if Isner/Mahut wins that one (unlikely as that possibility may seem!) - then a third round match on Saturday?!

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59-59 and a match that is 2 minutes short of 10 hours are records that will never be broken and never even got close to in the future.

Both men are very close to the 100 ace mark as well, which again is something that just seems ridiculous.

Had either man been able to return serve reasonably well this match would be over by now, but let's not try and analyse the performance and just think of it as it is, something that will never happen again.

The right decision I think to move the Youzhny/Mathieu match back a day as well.

Whoever wins this is probably going to be so drained and gutted that the last thing they will want to do is come back and play their doubles match, but that is what they will both have to do.

If they don't get their doubles matches done tomorrow then that competition is going to be seriously backed-up, as they'll be trying to get their matches in and the end of the day and whoever wins could be playing two matches a day for a couple of days.

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It's been a great match for tweets:

@jamie_murray Shambles of a match on court 18!!!! Hurry up and finish guys!

@Bryanbros: Before the match, I predicted a 30-28 fifth set win for @johnisnertennis. I'm almost there! C'mon Johnny Boy...keep dropping rocks!

@Bryanbros: When I said 30-28, I def didn't think I'd be way under. We are witnessing history and there seems to be no end in sight!

@Maheshbhupathi: Maybe the French football team need to watch their boy Mahut and take some lessons on HEART :)

@Bryanbros: 54-53. New balls. Wimbledon might run out of balls. Isner's arms and legs look like they weigh 1000 lbs. He's hanging by a thread. Believe!

@andyroddick: seriously..... doesnt anyone have to pee ? umpires included

@jamie_murray: whats more shocking? the score in this match or jonny macs shirt?!

@katiejobrien: Dear John. Please can I have your serve?

@Bryanbros: Our match follows the @johnisnertennis - Mahut match which resumes at 3:30pm tomorrow. Anyone have an idea when we should warm up?


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I'm loving Katie's tweet.

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And perhaps the best one yet:

@ProfBrianCox: I reckon that the Earth has traveled just over 636,000 miles around the Sun since this match began

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Yes, I had twitter open at the same time as watching the match last night - just hilarious from all the other tennis players! biggrin.gif

Surely this has got to be the match that everyone is going to try and get in for today, and that everyone will want to tune into at home. For my part I know there's no way I'm going to miss the conclusion of this one!

EDIT: Of course, it goes without saying that this is all over the news. On the BBC News 24 channel you can't get away from the story! It was headline news last night and just now I caught a special feature section on it.

-- Edited by LadyTigress on Thursday 24th of June 2010 07:23:00 AM

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The matches on Court 18 are racing through. Radwanska won 6-2 6-0 and Pennetta is up 6-1 2-0 so might not be too long before it restarts.

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Who's tuning in for the resumption of play?



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Note that Isner vs Mahut is not before 3.30,  which means now that the ladies have raced through it will be 3.30.

I guess they wanted a definite time to set their alarms for  smile 

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Isner and Mahut is now resuming on Court 18!

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And on it goes .....  67*- 68

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