Suribis beats Shinyo in the fourth longest women’s match in history
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Sarah sorebs won a great match in the first round of the China Open, a WTA 1000 defeated China’s Gao Xinyu 6-7, 7-5, 7-5, In a duel of four hours, 15 minutes and 51 seconds: the longest in the history of the Chinese championship, The fourth longest in the history of women’s professional tennis and the longest in the last 13 years.
The tennis player from Val-du, who She took the bronze medal in doubles with Kristina Bosa at the games Pars players, he also broke his tendon for the duration of one match. The previous stage was the eighth longest in the Open era at three hours and 54 minutes, at Cleveland 2022 against Colombian Camila Osorio.
Soribes unfolds a game of great intensity , with a constant exchange of high balls Against the local tennis player, who, despite starting the third set 1-5 down, remont with the support of the audience and saved several match balls until 5-5 before finally giving up. Sarah Madison will face keys in the second round.
The first set was a battle of resistance, in which both players held their serve until reaching the tiebreak, as suribis could not close the sleeve and fell by 7/4 in the tiebreak. In the second Spola himself is at 4-4 and breaks to take the sleeve 7-5.
The first favorite of the tournament is the Russian Arina SabalenkaJessica, the American Pegula Olympic gold medalist China Zheng Kenwyn.
The longest match and point in the history of women’s tennis
The 291 minutes played by Sarah and Shinyo in the record for the longest women’s professional tennis matches were placed in fourth place after Six hours and 31 minutes that Vicki Nelson Dunbar and Jan Heppner They played in the first round of the Virginia Slims Speedway Championship in Richmond, in 1984. This party includes The longest point in tennis history: 629 strokes and 29 minutes Duration. Nelson won 6-4, 7-6 (11) and at the end of the match declared that “I thought I was going crazy. The ball always comes back.”
However, this Richmond tournament was eligible for the WTA rankings but It was not the current WTA tournamentR , which was created in 1995, so that one of Sarah and shenyu enters the ‘podium’ of this category. Leading them Four hours and 44 minutes Who played Francesca Schiavone And Svetlana Kuznetsova In the 2011 Australian Open Championship, With the victory of the Italian with a score of 6-4, 1-6 and 16-14, given that by that time the last tie-breaker had not been presented at the Grand Slam,
The following are Four hours and 19 minutes Keo Barbora Strikova And Regina Kulikova They also played in 2010 Australian Open-doubles, With the former winning 7-6, 6-7, 6-3.
In the circle ITV We also find such parties as Camerin-Niculescu from Athens 2009 Won by the first 6-4, 6-7 and 7-6 in five hours and three minutes. But although her results indicate the WTA rating, technically her tournaments do not belong to this circle.
