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South African Kevin Anderson has qualified for the Wimbledon final, his second Grand Slam, after defeating American John Isner on Friday during a match of more than 6 hours and a half in five sets: 7-6 (8/6)), 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (9/11), 6-4, 26-24.
Both players played the second longest match in the history of the tournament. Anderson will face the final Sunday in the final against the winner of the Spanish Rafa Nadal or Serbian Novak Djokovic, who are measured in the other semifinal.
At age 32, the South African will play his second Grand Slam final after losing in September at the US Open against Nadal. He is the first player in his country to reach this level of competition at Wimbledon since 1921 (Brian Norton).
The clock marks 6 hours and 35 minutes when the 8th player of the world finishes with the resistance of the American (10th).
The second longest match of the tournament to date had lasted 6 hours and nine minutes in two days; It was 2006, in the quarterfinals of the men's doubles between Mark Knowles of the Bahamas, and Canadian Daniel Nestor, who beat Sweden's Simon Aspelin and Australian Todd Perry 23-21 in the fifth set.
The second most-played history of the tournament in the individual category was the one that measured Croatian Marin Cilic against American Sam Querrey (17-15 in the fifth set) in the third round in 2012. [19659008] Isner knows how to fight in long matches, since he won in 2010 the longest history of the English Grand Slam. He had 11 hours and 5 minutes, in three days, to win 70-68 in the fifth set against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut.
The second semifinal will be against the world number one, the Spanish Rafa Nadal, with the Serb Novak Djokovic. The retractable roof of the central courtyard allows to extend the matches at night, but not beyond the premises at 23:00, where there is a curfew to avoid inconvenience to residents of the area.
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