The longest-ever match in the Australian Open lasted 5 hours and 14 minutes. It was played in the semi-finals of 2009 between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco. (Nadal won and went on to win the men's title over Roger Federer.)
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The Australian Open is the first slam of the year, taking place in January.
The "Battle of the Sexes" as the tennis match was called took place in 1973.
The last Australian Open which took place in Melbourne happened in January 14 through the 27 in 2013. The Australian Open is an annual tennis game held in Melbourne. The 2013 open marked the 110th anniversary of the open.
At the 2010 Wimbledon tournament, John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in the first round. It was the longest recorded tennis match on record, lasting a total of 11 hours and 5 minutes, and being played on three consecutive days (6/22/10 - 6/24/10) before it was completed. The fifth set of the match was by far the longest in history, taking over 8 hours to complete, with Isner finally winning it 70-68.
Australian OpenThe Australian Open takes place in Melbourne Park, Melbourne at the Rod Laver arena. In 2009 it finishes on the 1st of February.
One can watch Ultimate Tennis matches at its website Ultimatetennis. One can also watch clips and videos uploaded onto Youtube. Ultimate Tennis is a 23 year proven league system.
The 4 grand slam tourneys in tennis are the Australian Open, in January, the French Open in May, Wimbledon, which is in London and takes place in late June/ early July, and in August you have the US Open
what do you mean? According to Guinness World Records (TM), the longest "contrived" tennis rally is 25,944 strokes by identical twin brothers Angelo & Ettore Rossetti set on 9-10 August 2008 at the North Haven Health & Racquet club in North Haven, CT. The rally lasted 14 hours and 31 minutes.
rey mysterio has the longest recorded time in the royal rumble with1:02:12 in 2006. the next longest lasting entrants are chris benoit1:01:30 in the shortest royal rumble match with 30 entrants took place in 1995. with participants entering in 60 secons intervals this match lasted a little more than 38 minutes.
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Rafael Nadal is currently #1 male tennis player in the world. He recently defeated Roger Federer in the Australian Open 2009 finals. Serena Williams is currently #1 female tennis player in the world. She also took 1st place in the Australian Open 2009 after defeating Dinara Safina. In 2011 in 1st is Djokividc 2nd nadal 3rd murray 4th federer 5th David ferrer 6th soderling 7th tsonga and 8th Fish.