We had the suspect that a Davis Cup tie between Argentina and Brazil could have been an epic, but we didn’t really expect that!
Argentina was 1-2 down against Brazil before Leonardo Mayer started his encounter against Joao Souza. Eventually the match became a 6 hours and 42 minutes epic that the Argentine won 7-6 (4) 7-6 (5) 5-7 5-7 15-13 after converting his 6th match point.
The other records
The previous record in a Davis Cup rubber belonged to a match between John McEnroe and Mats Wilander in 1982 when the American Legend won 9-7, 6-2, 15-17, 3-6, 8-6 (at that time there were no tiebreaks).
The longest match in tennis history still belongs to that crazy 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(7), 7–6(3), 70–68 won by Isner over Mahut in 11 hours and 5 minutes (Wimbledon 2010).
This encounter between Mayer and Souza is now the 2nd longest single match in tennis history after overtaking an epic between Santoro and Clement that ended 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 3-6, 16-14 after 6 hours and 33 minutes (Roland Garros 2004).
Back to the tie…
After this match Argentina and Brazil are still on a 2-all score-line.
The decisive match was interrupted when Delbonis was 1 set up. They will continue on Monday.
