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2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/24/AR2010062404871.html

I'm exhausted after only 2 hours of tennis. These guys are insane.

Posted: Jun 24 2010 11:44 pm

Yep, I heard about that. Absolutely epic.

The most insane part is that one of those poor bastards actually had to go play in a doubles match right after they finished this one. Nuts!

Posted: Jun 25 2010 12:54 am

As amazing as it sounded at the time, now that I had time to think about it, they pretty much were just holding serve forever. No one tried to take the lead. There were only 5 match points throughout the whole thing, too! Anything to make tennis relevant, because I don't know anyone who actually watches it.

Posted: Jun 25 2010 06:25 am

Yeah, it's hard to get excited about anything related to tennis, except maybe Anna Kournikova's skirt flying up periodically.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

That is pretty damn awesome.

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

Shut up, Dorn wrote:

As amazing as it sounded at the time, now that I had time to think about it, they pretty much were just holding serve forever. No one tried to take the lead. There were only 5 match points throughout the whole thing, too! Anything to make tennis relevant, because I don't know anyone who actually watches it.

Both have a good serve, but both aren't ranked very high, so they kinda suck with returns. It's obvious you won't get many break points with guys like that.

Posted: Jun 25 2010 04:14 pm

Pandajuice wrote:

Yeah, it's hard to get excited about anything related to tennis, except maybe Anna Kournikova's skirt flying up periodically.

I could watch that for 11 hours.