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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Draper faces top-seeded Chun Hsin Tseng of Taiwan, who defeated Tao Mu of China 6-3, 6-1 to reach his third consecutive Grand Slam final. The 16-year-old Tseng was the runner-up at the ...

Injuries knocked five players out of Wimbledon on Wednesday - with second-seeded Victoria Azarenka joining the man who stunned Rafael Nadal in the first round and the American who won the longest ...

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 ...