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共持续3天，耗时11小时零5分钟，总比分6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.
以前的网球单打比赛总局数纪录是1968年温布尔登赛Pancho Gonzalez 胜 Charles Parsarell，22-24：1-6，16-14，6-3，11-9，共112局（耗时5小时）。从1971年开始，温布尔登引入抢七制，但在第5盘依然维持长盘决胜制；双打赛总局数纪录则为122局。温布尔登赛前第5盘局数纪录为62局，1968年某场男子双打赛。

前大满贯赛中最长耗时记录是2004年法网Fabrice Santoro 胜 Arnaud Clement：6-4, 6-3, 6-7, 3-6, 16-14，耗时6小时33分钟。温布尔登赛前耗时纪录为2006年男子双打四分之一决赛中的一场，耗时6小时零9分钟。（有趣的是，1984年Richmond巡回赛Vicki Nelson-Dunbar 胜 Jean Hepner：6-4 7-6，结果竟然耗时6小时半，其中有一个回合持续了243拍！）

难怪女王也忍不住，自1977年以来第一次莅临现场看球。

Wimbledon's longest match: John Isner victorious as marathon match finally ends
The longest tennis match in the history of tennis is over, 11 long hours and five minutes after it started, John Isner defeating Nicolas Mahut in five sets, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.
每日电讯报 By Sandy Macaskill Published: 5:20PM BST 24 Jun 2010

After playing 20 games today – no short-changing the day's crowd, then – Isner threaded a backhand down the line as Mahut attacked the net. The American collapsed as the crowd stood.

Yawn tennis? Nothing of the sort. This was a gladiatorial contest times 10. When Isner and Mahut began their epic, three days ago, they were small fry in the tennis scheme of it, Wimbledon also-rans. Over eight hours and 11 minutes of fifth set tennis later, during which incredibly the standard never faltered, they had battered and bloodied their way into the sport's history books.

Isner-Mahut: fifth-set timeline Forget the World Cup; this was the story. The crowds were 50 deep at the doors. St Mary's Walk was at a standstill. Want a pew on this 782-seater court? Forget it. ESPN were told to shift. John Inverdale had to sit on the floor. Even Isner's mother, Karen, could not barge her way in, until she waved her security pass in front of a guard's face. And then when she got to her seat, it was already inhabited. Poor spectator – they must have been ruing their seat selection as they were ejected.

Good news. Overnight, the scoreboards had been fixed. Having given up the ghost at 47-all, they were now up to date. 59-all in the fifth. So many games it almost lost meaning. The crowd stood and cheered as the players emerged.

You could almost hear the creaking. Both players had been taking massages and ice baths ever since stumbling off court at 9.10pm last night. Isner's footwork was understandably sluggish, and he was taken to deuce immediately. The delay had taken none of the sting off the American' serve, however. Ace. Speed? 138mph, taking his total of aces over the match to 100. Unsurprisingly, he held.

Mahut, serving at 60-61, suffered what looked like stomach cramps. He still held. Then took his ace count to a century. Isner was feeling his left leg. Yet he continued to hold serve: this really did seem like it would never end. Mahut pumped his fist and clenched his jaw. Isner looked frankly bewildered by it all, then scorched down another bomb.

The first signs of tension crept in, Mahut having held to take the toll to 68-all. Isner chucked his racquet to the floor, and promptly fell 0-30 behind. An opening. Ace – 15-30. Unreturnable serve – 30-30. Unreturnable second serve – 40-30. Unreturnable second serve – hold.

How do you deal with that? In the next game, the 65th time he had served to stay in the match, at 15-all, Mahut played a poor drop shot into the net, his mind disordered. A forehand down the line from Isner, and suddenly it was 30-40. Match point. Isner's fifth. And with a backhand down the line it was finally finished. The players hugged at net, Isner took the applause, then directed it at Mahut.

"It stinks someone has to lose," Isner said, as the pair were awarded special commemorative gifts by Anne Jones and Tim Henman. "He is a warrior."

"He is a champion," Mahut said, repaying the favour. "We just played the greatest match at the greatest tournament."

"Herculean," John McEnroe called it. Few would argue. Supreme will, excellent tennis, outrageous spectacle, wonderful story. The best thing, though, was that both left the court the same way they arrived: grinning.