Isner, ranked 11th in the world entering the week and a U.S. Olympian, relied on his overpowering serve despite playing lethargically at times. Second-seeded Kei Nishikori, Japan's top player and the ...

Frenchman Nicolas Mahut delivered an emotional farewell to professional tennis after his doubles defeat at the Paris Masters ...

WIMBLEDON, England – When The Match That Would Not End finally did, at 70-68 in the fifth set, after a record 11 hours, 5 minutes spread over three days, the customary handshake between opponents ...

Nicolas Mahut is best known for losing the longest professional tennis match in history against American John Isner at ...

The Frenchman, winner of five doubles majors and one half of the longest tennis battle in history, played his final match Tuesday alongside Dimitrov.

June 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, Pablo Picasso's artwork had its first exhibition in Paris. In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71. In ...

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Well, that was short. And what a break for everyone concerned - including the loser. Neither John Isner nor Nicolas Mahut wanted anything that even remotely resembled the three-day marathon they ...

WIMBLEDON, England — When John Isner finally won the longest match in tennis history, he collapsed on the Wimbledon grass and then summoned one last burst of energy, springing to his feet to give his ...

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 ...