A year after needing 11 hours, 5 minutes spread over three days to finish a match that ended 70-68 in the fifth set, John Isner required only about two hours and a mere three sets to beat Nicolas ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (WFMY) - A 6 hour and 35-minute battle for Greensboro native John Isner ended in defeat Friday at Wimbledon. Isner, 33, was in his first trip to the semifinals, falling to Kevin ...

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:08:40 GMT — John Isner has won the longest match in tennis history, taking the fifth set against Nicolas Mahut 70-68. The first-round match at Wimbledon took 11 hours, 5 minutes ...

Arthur Ashe became the first — and to this day, only — Black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon in 1975, beating defending champion Jimmy Connors 6–1, 6–1, 5–7, 6–4 in the final. Also that year ...

Three days following their titanic semifinal at Wimbledon in July -- the second longest grand slam match ever behind Isner's 11-hour win over Nicolas Mahut at the same venue in 2010 -- they achieved ...

LONDON (AP) To say that Kevin Anderson won this interminable Wimbledon semifinal, and that John Isner lost it, didn't really seem fair. To Anderson, anyway. They had played on and on, through 6 1/2 ...

Oct 29 (Reuters) - Frenchman Nicolas Mahut delivered an emotional farewell to professional tennis after his doubles defeat at the Paris Masters. Mahut, 43, won five Grand Slam doubles titles in a ...