Just, wow.

But what an absolutely crazy game. How can these guys still walk? leave alone keep going at this level. Once in a lifetime opportunity to see something like this.

I don't really see the big deal. These aren't the games greats.

You could take two guys who never played tennis, as long as they're evenly matched, it could take a while for one to win by 2.

What the hell am i supposed to be impressed with?

Nalod wrote:

kam77 wrote:This is like if Vanderbuilt played a 8-OT game against Loyola in the first round of the tourney.

I don't really see the big deal. These aren't the games greats.

You could take two guys who never played tennis, as long as they're evenly matched, it could take a while for one to win by 2.

What the hell am i supposed to be impressed with?

Over 11 hours two dudes playing. Eddy plays 10 games in two years, these guys played 11 hours over 3 days, but they played 7 hours yesterday.

You don't have to be impressed, but the rest of the sporting world is.

Its like soccer, some don't care, but a lot do.

YOur not impressed thats one thing, but I am not impressed with your analogy either.

What he said. The marathon aint nothing on what these two guys went through yesterday.

Sorry, that's not impressive. Thats scrubs who can't find a return game.

Just cuz it takes a long time to determine the outcome of an event doesn't make it a great event.

We've been "sportscentered"

I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.

Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.

bitty41 wrote:

kam77 wrote:I'm not bashing soccer or hockey. I appreciate soccer very much. I'm not a hockey fan but i never said anything bad about it.

I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.

Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.

How many tennis players ever get the opportunity to play at Wimbledon? I completely disagree with your take on this match in the sense that both players could have thrown in the towel and just accepted defeat. So for me I don't care if this Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal or Joe Schomoe vs Joe Schomoe 2 it' still an achievement. Matches like this reminds the rest of us why we're sitting in front of a computer and not smashing a ball at Wimbledon.

If its about Stamina, i'll go with a 12 round boxing match. Watching that much tennis is absurd. Y'all aint tennis FANS are you? Did anyone here watch the match, the whole thing? Man up! Y'all just repeating what they told you on sportcenter.