Jean Hepner (born October 25, 1958) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
Hepner is notable for holding the record for participating in the longest women's tennis match in a match against
Vicki Nelson-Dunbar
Vicki Nelson-Dunbar (born September 25, 1962) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career she won one top-level singles title (at São Paulo in 1986), and reached the fourth round of the US Open in 1982.
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at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, which lasted six hours and 31 minutes.
Additionally, this match contains two other records. It featured a 29-minute, 643-shot
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, the longest in professional tennis history.
This was also the longest professional match completed in a single day.
Hepner reached the second round of the
1978 US Open, the
1983 French Open
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, and the
1983 US Open.
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Longest tennis match records
This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games.
The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for such records to be broken. However, among the four majors, the US Open, Australian Open ...
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1958 births
American female tennis players
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21st-century American women
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