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I f Kevin Anderson and Novak Djokovic are thrown into another fifth marathon set to decide the winner of the men's singles title here on Sunday, the moans of the crowd will match those of the exhausted fighters, all of whom have 11 hours and 51 minutes for the penultimate acts of the tournament.
Three more hours after Rafael Nadal's final, the tired forehand drifted wide and we would have had the tennis equivalent of the Ring. Cycle
From an obvious point of view, such large and bloody battles are the best endured theater of paid places. It's no different watching a boxing match or a dinner is horribly bad. However, the hurt suffered by participants and voyeurs also drains the mind.
The pain is shared, the obvious solution: a break in equality to break these dramatic dead ends, which would bring Wimbledon closer to the US Open and would leave the Three Minutes after Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber were directed to the Center Court to play the women's final, Nadal extended his night fight against Djokovic in a fifth set. The women should wait, just as Nadal and Djokovic had to turn their thumbs Friday night.
After four o'clock on Saturday, the former opponents were as close as they had been for most of the 52 games played 12 years: two sets all and two games all in the deciding set. It does not look good. In fact, it looked very good. The quality of their exchanges was at the height of the brilliant tennis that they had played under the roof the day before, before the curfew at 11 pm
Tennis was of such a mesmeric excellence that we were taken in a community daydream. Conversely, the desire for another demolition marathon, after the 6 – foot – 8 inch Anderson took 6h 36min Friday to drain the last drop of resistance from his old friend. University, John Isner, was not strong
. An extraordinary exercise in a bloody spirit required that the All England Club abandon its attachment to history and introduce a tie-break in the fifth set of men's singles, which would have reduced their time by at least two hours . It would also have allowed Nadal and Djokovic to win the second semi-final of the designated day.
As it stands, Anderson and Djokovic will both be shattered on Sunday. After two weeks of rare sunshine, this is not an ideal way to determine the winner of the championship.
As Isner said, "If one person can not finish the other before 12-all, then do a tie-breaker There I think it's overdue." As a winner the longest match in the history of sport, here in 2010 face Nicolas Mahut in 11h 5min spread over three days, no one is better qualified to make this call.
beyond the spirit of the smart committee members, surely, to follow through. It would meet with almost universal approval, and there is a good chance that it will be implemented, perhaps next year. There is only a little stubbornness that a tennis tournament can hold.
The roof stayed up on a hot and sunny Saturday afternoon because, as Tim Henman confirmed, Djokovic did not agree with Nadal to play the game. ;fresh air. The committee member of the All England Club and four-time semi-finalist here said that it was as much a convention as the rule that the roof should therefore remain in place, to protect the integrity of the contest.
However, as reluctance to implement a final decisive game, it is a view based on convenience. Historically, Wimbledon has had a supernatural talent to do the job, even during a terrible time in the fortnight. The rain only hit that once in a fortnight, almost the perfect no-storm.
Djokovic and Nadal saved the tournament with an excellent semifinal – after an equally wonderful quarter-final between Nadal and Juan Martín del Potro. Now it is up to Djokovic and Anderson to bring it to an uplifting conclusion.
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