Tennis Anyone?
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El Aynaoui
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Roddick
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Four hours Fifty-nine minutes:
Longest Men's Singles Match at Australian Open
since 1971!
I don't know if you care about tennis, but I used to play
all the time, and it was a great passion of mine. Yesterday, I caught the 4th
and 5th sets of the Australian Open Semi-Final match between Younes El Aynaoui
from Morocco and Andy Roddick from USA.
When I turned the game on, the announcers were saying it
was a 'game for the ages'...and it was still the 4th set! Little did they know
how the 5th set would turn out.
The box score from this match rivals the best World Series
extra inning games or overtime Football Playoffs or Stanley Cup Finals.
These guys played near perfect tennis for close to five hours!
Stats
El
Aynaoui
Roddick
1st serve
71%
62%
Aces
25
27
Double faults
8
2
Unforced errors
55
31
Winning %
(1st serve)
141 of 179
79%
114 of 143
80%
Winning %
(2nd serve)
37 of 74
50%
61 of 88
69%
Winners
107
102
Break point
conversions
3 of 9
33%
3 of 13
23%
Net approaches
63 of 85
74%
71 of 115
62%
Total points won
234
250
4:59 - Compare the time of this match with:
4:28 - Length of
all five of Kim Clijsters victories en route to women's semifinals
3:49 - Ward
Burton's victory in the 2002 Daytona 500
3:24 - New
England's 20-17 victory over St. Louis in the 2002 Super Bowl
3:16 - Anaheim's
4-1 victory over San Fransisco in Game 7 of the 2002 World Series
2:59 - Run time of
"The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers"
2:24 - The Lakers'
113-107 victory over the Nets in the clinching game of the 2002 NBA Finals
0:02:01.13 - War
Emblem's time in the 2002 Kentucky Derby
For me, this match
is up there with watching Game 6 of the 1986 World Series (Red Sox vs. Mets).
What are your
memerable sports events?
AI Summary
5 Comments
i cant believe u posted this, i had it TAPED AND WAS GONNA WATCH IT, ARGH.... Some people!
oops i thought u meant the ed, edd, and eddy marathon on cartoon network.... whats this tennis u speak of?
u hurt my feelings...but i'll recover
good marathon and the best waste of a day!
my memOrable sports moment is when, while playing stickball (that's what we do in the bronx when not running from the police) i hit a tennis ball out of the park across the street and onto the roof of my building, which is seven stories. I still have the ball and it's dated. it was a friday the 13th, not that that means anything...