Insane

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:53 pm

Okay, so you know how there are no tiebreaks in the fifth set at Wimbledon?

Well, Isner vs. Mahut are in the fifth.....at 41 games to 40! Yes 41/40 games, not points, in just one set.

They now have the record for longest match in tennis history at 7 hours and thirty minutes and counting.

Ridiculous.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:20 pm

44/44!

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:02 pm

50 to 50!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:28 pm

Suspended at 59/59 due to poor lighting.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:42 am

Its all good and fun til it interrupts my World Cup coverage. ITS TENNIS ESPN! IT CAN WAIT!

Loved the 'Delayed Due To Darkness' under the match results. At least these two guys get their 15 minutes and place in the records.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:43 am

i just saw them both interviewed - Isner seems a bit grumpy about being part of history. Mahut seemed a bit of a more cheerful and philisophical about it.

So based on two minutes of interviews Mahut is getting my vote.

Then again whoever gets through is likley to get annihalted in the next game.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:16 pm

I would very much like to play the guy who wins so that I can claim I beat a pro player in my life.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:25 pm

Yaya wrote:I would very much like to play the guy who wins so that I can claim I beat a pro player in my life.

And also kick a man who's down, so you can claim to have beaten him in a fight?

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:32 pm

Rebis wrote:
Yaya wrote:I would very much like to play the guy who wins so that I can claim I beat a pro player in my life.
And also kick a man who's down, so you can claim to have beaten him in a fight?

To quote Optimus Prime, "That's how I roll".

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:22 pm

How about letting someone else do all the hard work, so you can claim all the credit?

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:50 pm

Rebis wrote:How about letting someone else do all the hard work, so you can claim all the credit?

that would be quoting my boss's mantra

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:32 pm

70-68, final set score.

To put the ridiculousness in perspective for those of you who aren't tennis fans, I would be more inclined to believe I saw a monkey riding a dolphin at the beach singing "The Touch" if you asked me which is more likely to be true.

No exaggeration.

It's supernatural.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:10 pm

I wouldn't go as far as to call it supernatural. Improbable perhaps, unlikely sure, but hardly supernatural.

But, if you look at how the points systems is determined in Tennis, it's an outcome that has some probability, no matter how slim.

I mean, basically, the rule is "to win the game/set/match, you need to have at least X points/won X games/sets, and be 2 points/games/sets ahead of your opponent."

But if you applied that rule to, say, flipping a coin, "to win you must have called correctly at least X times, and be 2 correct calls ahead," you can foresee the possibility of having to flip a coin for a great number of times to finish.

The most surprising thing about it, I think, is that it hasn't happened prior to this.

Also, it does't mean, necessarily, that either of them is any good*, just that they were very evenly matched.

*Relative to the other competitors. Obviously they're good enough to get to Wimbledon and they've shown they have the endurance necessary to go the distance, which the other players most likely have as well, but rarely get to show.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:23 pm

Rebis wrote: The most surprising thing about it, I think, is that it hasn't happened prior to this.

You obviously don't play tennis.

20-20, yeah. 30-30, well, that's about the limits of expectations. 40-40 is already insane. 50-50 in unbelievable. 60-60? Should have happened before? No freakin way.

But 70-68?

Give me a monkey on a dolphin. I'll believe that.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:46 am

Yaya wrote:I would be more inclined to believe I saw a monkey riding a dolphin at the beach singing "The Touch"

I have seen this.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:22 am

Yaya wrote:
Rebis wrote: The most surprising thing about it, I think, is that it hasn't happened prior to this.
You obviously don't play tennis.

Not recently, no.

However, I don't see how that's relevant.

These people, when in training, are playing tennis virtually all day every day. The only difference here was that they were playing for the same set, in the same match, for so long.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:49 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:
Yaya wrote:I would be more inclined to believe I saw a monkey riding a dolphin at the beach singing "The Touch"
I have seen this.

Seconded.

I shat a brick.

Post by **Best First** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:00 pm

I waste a lot of time on the internet.

And sometimes i wonder about that.

So it's nice to see Rebis and Yaya's entirely pointless and success free arguements and realise that for all i waste a lot of time on the net, at least i don't waste as much as some people.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:28 pm

Is the internet good for anything other than wasting time?

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:30 pm

IronHide wrote:
spiderfrommars wrote:
Yaya wrote:I would be more inclined to believe I saw a monkey riding a dolphin at the beach singing "The Touch"
I have seen this.
Seconded.

I shat a brick.

So just to put this in perspective, I would have been less amazed at a square brick exiting your ass than 70-68.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:03 pm

What if it was cinder-block size?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:51 pm

Best First wrote:So it's nice to see Rebis and Yaya's entirely pointless and success free arguements and realise that for all i waste a lot of time on the net, at least i don't waste as much as some people.

I'd be interested to see if they can rack up 70 posts each arguing about how natural/probable it is/n't to rack up 70 games each in a tennis match.

If not for the fact I don't care.