[Other Sport] Isner v Anderson

[Bozza]

Watching my first tennis of the Wimbledon fortnight and it's a bizarre one.

Serving monsters John Isner and Kevin Anderson are slugging it out in the fifth set where it's 19-19. They've been playing for nearly 6 hours.

There seems to be a threat of rain, which means they'd all need to head off and wait for the roof to do its thing, which would keep it going even longer and later.

Beyond all this, Nadal and Djokovic are still waiting to play their semi - there has to be a decent chance they'll not complete tonight.

 

[dazzer6666]

Watching my first tennis of the Wimbledon fortnight and it's a bizarre one.

Serving monsters John Isner and Kevin Anderson are slugging it out in the fifth set where it's 19-19. They've been playing for nearly 6 hours.

There seems to be a threat of rain, which means they'd all need to head off and wait for the roof to do its thing, which would keep it going even longer and later.

Beyond all this, Nadal and Djokovic are still waiting to play their semi - there has to be a decent chance they'll not complete tonight.

Might as well make yourself comfy, Isner has got form for this...........70-68 fifth set in 2010, took 3 DAYS

 

[Gabbiano]

Unbelievably boring tennis, completely unwatchable.

Bam! Ace! Ace! Ace!

Other player to serve...

Bam! Ace! Ace! Ace!

Continue until (seemingly) the end of time. We should be watching Nadal v Djokovic slugging out another epic when instead we get 6 hours of serving practice. How can two professional tennis players in the top 10 of the world be so incapable of breaking serve?

 

[Icy Gull]

Not much tennis being played, I reckon every neutral in the crowd just wants it to end, to hell with who wins it.

 

[Djmiles]

Might as well make yourself comfy, Isner has got form for this...........70-68 fifth set in 2010, took 3 DAYS

The game only lasted 11 hours. I crack that out at work in one day. Pussies.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Front rows should be issued with Nerf guns, and fire the darts on randomly to make it interesting. Or the umpire should allow heckling, so ahead of a serve....oooooooooooooo you're shit arrrhhhhhhhh....

 

[dazzer6666]

The game only lasted 11 hours. I crack that out at work in one day. Pussies.

The rest of the time was the umpire taking breaks. EU working time directive and all that [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Iggle Piggle]

#whack

 

[banjo]

 

[Iggle Piggle]

You'd normally say no-one deserves to lose.

No-one deserves to win.

 

[Bold Seagull]

So they've played 91 games, and there has been 1 break of serve!!??

 

[dazzer6666]

Looks like a 6 hour serving contest between two giants.

 

[KZNSeagull]

So they've played 91 games, and there has been 1 break of serve!!??

There have only been about 4 break points in the final set. It is now 22-21 Isner.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

This is why Tennis is only on the telly once a year.

Because it's really shit most of the time.

 

[Pickles]

This is why Tennis is only on the telly once a year.

Because it's really shit most of the time.

Claptrap mate.

Try playing it at a decent level.

 

[KZNSeagull]

This is why Tennis is only on the telly once a year.

Because it's really shit most of the time.

Tripe. This years Wimbledon so far has been really good.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Claptrap mate.

Try playing it at a decent level.

#whack

 

[Badger]

This is why Tennis is only on the telly once a year.

Because it's really shit most of the time.

It's so unbelievably tedious. At least in other sports you can change tactics, throw on subs etc. In tennis the players have one way of playing, and they'll continue that until one of them finally makes enough mistakes to end the match.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Tripe. This years Wimbledon so far has been really good.

Oh give over. Tennis is for people called Tristan who couldn't play cricket at public school. No one even knew Wimbledon was on till we lost against Croatia.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Oh give over. Tennis is for people called Tristan who couldn't play cricket at public school. No one even knew Wimbledon was on till we lost against Croatia.