A year after needing 11 hours, 5 minutes spread over three days to finish a match that ended 70-68 in the fifth set, John Isner required only about two hours and a mere three sets to beat Nicolas ...

Oct 29 (Reuters) - Frenchman Nicolas Mahut delivered an emotional farewell to professional tennis after his doubles defeat at the Paris Masters. Mahut, 43, won five Grand Slam doubles titles in a ...

John Isner celebrates winning on the third day of his first round match against Nicolas Mahut of France on Day Four of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships on June 24, 2010. The match is the ...

June 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, Pablo Picasso's artwork had its first exhibition in Paris. In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71. In ...

Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, who famously lost the longest match in tennis history to John Isner in 2010, will retire from the sport at the end of the season, he said Wednesday.

LONDON (AP) — A look at some of the anniversaries this year at Wimbledon: Arthur Ashe became the first — and to this day, only — Black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon in 1975, beating ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)—Top-seeded John Isner and Nicolas Mahut are forever linked with the longest match in tennis history. On Tuesday, they both wasted little time in winning opening-round matches at the ...

Well, that was short. And what a break for everyone concerned - including the loser. Neither John Isner nor Nicolas Mahut wanted anything that even remotely resembled the three-day marathon they ...

June 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, Pablo Picasso's artwork had its first exhibition in Paris. In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71. In ...