Updates from Wimbledon: Isner-Mahut first round match is 9 hours shorter than last year's marathon Match

John Isner (left) being congratulated by Nicolas Mahut

after Isner's first round straight set victory

Photo courtesy of The Guardian

Exactly one year ago at Wimbledon, John Isner and Nicholas Mahut wound up their three day match with some astounding statistics:

183 games

112 Aces by John Isner ( a match record!), 215 combined

11 hours.

Final Score: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68.

Mahut summed it up by declaring: "We just played the greatest match ever at the greatest place ever."

This year, the two again met in the first round. Here are some stats.

34 games

9 hours and 2 minutes shorter than last year's match (at 2 hours and 2 minutes)

16 aces total: 8 each by Isner and Mahut.

Isner was ranked 24th last year is now at number 47 in the world.

Final score 7-6, 6-2, 7-6.

Isner won again, but this time he displayed a more aggressive game which apparently caught Mahut off guard.

Click here to see a more detailed Isner-Mahut Match Comparison

Photo (1) courtesy of the Guardian

For my last year's blogs on this epic match click here:

http://rjschwartz.blogspot.com/2010/06/tennis-enters-slipstream-marathon.html

http://rjschwartz.blogspot.com/2010/06/greatest-match-ever.html