Longest tennis match records


This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games.
The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for such records to be broken. However, among the four majors, the US Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon use the tiebreak in the final set, while the French Open, through 2021, was the only major to use the advantage set rules in the final set, which allows for an indefinite number of games until one player is ahead by two. A 2022 rule change now requires every Grand Slam tournament to use the tiebreak in the final set. The Olympic Games have also used a final set tiebreak since 2016.

All competitions

Overall

Longest matches by duration

Only two professional competitive matches have lasted longer than seven
hours and 14 matches have lasted longer than six hours.
#Duration
WinnerLoserEventRoundScore
111:05

Longest matches by number of games

#No. of gamesWinnerLoserEventRoundScore
1183

Men's singles

The Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships holds the record for the longest tennis match both in time and games played. It lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes.

Best-of-five-set match

#Duration
WinnerLoserEventRoundScore
111:05

Best-of-three-set match

#Duration
WinnerLoserEventRoundScore
104:26

Women's singles

The longest women's match took place at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, when Vicki Nelson took 6 hours, 31 minutes to defeat Jean Hepner 6–4, 7–6. The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history, though no video exists of this point.
Unlike men's singles matches, where Grand Slam events are played over the best of five sets, all women's matches are played as the best of three sets. All matches since January 1, 2019 have been checked, but there are likely to be many more from earlier years which have not yet been recognised, especially as qualifying matches in ITF tournaments before that date would normally have been played over the best of three tie-break sets.
#Duration
WinnerLoserEventRoundScore
106:31

Main WTA Tour

#Duration
WinnerLoserEventRoundScore
106:31

Doubles

Longest doubles matches by time

#Duration
WinnerLoserEventRoundScore
107:01

Longest doubles matches by number of games

# of GamesWinnerLoserEventRoundScore
102

Summer Olympics

Note: The International Olympic Committee does not recognise records in tennis. Therefore, all the records listed below are unofficial.