The tennis match that broke the scoreboard

What BBN said about it

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFolks, a first-round tennis match is still going after eleven hours and five minutes, over three days, and nobody has left the building!

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorNobody is allowed!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorEleven hours? In one match? That can't be real, Rex.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorJohn Isner and Nicolas Mahut, and the fifth set alone takes eight hours and eleven minutes, longer than the first four sets combined!

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIsner wins it seventy to sixty-eight!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSeventy to sixty-eight. That's longer than some people's entire careers, Rex.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorOn the second day the courtside scoreboard freezes at forty-seven all, then goes dark. IBM says it was only programmed to go to forty-seven all!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe scoreboard quit?

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe scoreboard tapped out, Chip! A hundred and eighty-three games, the most in a single match, and the machine folded before the humans did!

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOkay, that is the best thing I have ever heard. Please tell me that is made up.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt was June twenty-second to twenty-fourth, twenty ten, Court Eighteen at Wimbledon, per Wikipedia.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe club put up a plaque, and in twenty eighteen Wimbledon changed its rules to stop matches that long.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThey had to change the rules because of two guys who just wouldn't stop. I respect that so much.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorChip, you'd never last eleven hours. You'd leave for a pretzel at hour two.