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 and Wimbledon (since 2019) use the tiebreak in the final set, while the French Open, through 2021, was the only major to use the advantage set rules in the final set, which allows for an indefinite number of games until one player is ahead by two. A 2022 rule change now requires every Grand Slam tournament, even the Olympics, to use the tiebreak in the final set.

All competitions

Overall

Longest matches by duration

Only two professional competitive matches have lasted longer than seven
hours and 14 matches have lasted longer than six hours.

Longest matches by number of games

Men's singles

The Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships holds the record for the longest tennis match both in time and games played. It lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes.

Women's singles

The longest women's match (by time) took place at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, when Vicki Nelson took 6 hours, 31 minutes to defeat Jean Hepner 6–4, 7–6^(13–11). The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history, though no video exists of this point.

Unlike men's singles matches, where Grand Slam events are still played over the best of five sets, all women's matches are now played as the best of three sets. This means that there is a far greater likelihood of a match in any tournament being long enough to be included in this table. All matches since January 1, 2019 have been checked, but there are likely to be many more from earlier years which have not yet been recognised, especially as qualifying matches in ITF tournaments before that date would normally have been played over the best of three tie-break sets.

Where different sources give durations for a particular match, the shortest elapsed time will be the one noted below.

Note 1: The fourth-longest match listed above was recorded in the ITF live scoring data as taking 5 hours and 4 minutes. SofaScore recorded 4 hours and 54 minutes and TNNS recorded 4 hours and 55 minutes. The shortest of these has been included in this table.

Note 2: The sixth-longest match listed above was recorded in the ITF live scoring data as taking 4 hours and 50 minutes. SofaScore recorded 4 hours and 46 minutes and TNNS recorded 4 hours and 47 minutes. The shortest of these has been included in this table.

Note 3: The eighth-longest match listed above was recorded in the ITF live scoring data as taking 4 hours and 53 minutes. The shorter time, recorded by both SofaScore and TNNS, has been included in this table.

The longest match consisting of two standard sets and a match tie-break was played in the second qualifying round of a $25,000 ITF tournament in Koksijde, Belgium, on August 9, 2021. Merel Hoedt defeated Berta Bonardi 7–5, 6–7^(4–7), 0–4 in three hours and 37 minutes.

Doubles

;Longest doubles matches by time

;Longest doubles matches by number of games

Australian Open

Men's singles

Men's doubles

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

French Open

Men's singles

Men's doubles

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Wimbledon

Men's singles

The 2019 Wimbledon
Men's final between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic lasted 4 hours 57 minutes and is the third longest singles final by time played.

Men's doubles

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

US Open

Men's singles

Men's doubles

Women's singles

Best-of-five-sets system:

Best-of-three-sets system:

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Summer Olympics

* ''Note'': The International Olympic Committee does not recognise records in tennis. Therefore, all the records listed below are unofficial.

Overall

Men's singles

; Best-of-three-sets system:

; Best-of-five-sets system:

Men's doubles

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Davis Cup and Fed Cup

Davis Cup

Fed Cup

Tour Finals

ATP Tour Finals

Best-of-five-sets system:

Best-of-three-sets system:

WTA Tour Finals

Best-of-five-sets system:

Best-of-three-sets system:

See also

* Tennis statistics
* Shortest tennis match records
* Longest tiebreaker in tennis

References

External links

BBC – Extreme tennis: the demands of a 10-hour game

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