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[Other Sport] Isner v Anderson



Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Back in Sussex
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

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Mar 27, 2013
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Burgess Hill
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

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Dec 18, 2017
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Spank the Manc
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

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Not much tennis being played, I reckon every neutral in the crowd just wants it to end, to hell with who wins it.
 


Djmiles

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Dec 1, 2005
12,060
Kitchener, Canada
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

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Mar 18, 2010
29,719
Hove
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....
 




















Iggle Piggle

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Sep 3, 2010
5,281
This is why Tennis is only on the telly once a year.

Because it's really shit most of the time.
 




Pickles

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May 5, 2014
1,315
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.
 






Badger

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May 8, 2007
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Toronto
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.
 









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