First round. Three-day match. No fifth set tie breaker. 70-68. SEVENTY games to SIXTY-EIGHT games! In the fifth set. After more than 11 hours of play and 183 games total. Stopped twice because it got too dark. Over 100 aces from both players. More than 250 winners from each player, too. Epic doesn't seem to quite cover it. As Isner put it, it's too bad that someone had to lose.
The sad news. Isner lost his very next match. After 11 hours of play over three days, it took only a little over an hour for his next opponent to bounce him.
Still, there will probably never be another match like this one. And both players will end up in the record books regardless of what they might do in the future.
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