Vicki Nelson-Dunbar (born September 25, 1962) is a former professional
tennis
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player from the United States. During her career she won one top-level singles title (at
São Paulo
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in 1986), and reached the fourth round of the
US Open in 1982.
Nelson-Dunbar holds the record for participating in the longest women's tennis match against
Jean Hepner which lasted six hours and 31 minutes. This match also featured the longest
rally
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in tennis history, a 643-shot rally that lasted 29 minutes.
The game occurred on September 24, 1984, at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia.
WTA Tour finals
Singles (1 win, 1 loss)
See also
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Longest tennis match records
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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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1962 births
Living people
American female tennis players
People from Wooster, Ohio
21st-century American women