The problem with a play-till-you-win match, is if it isn’t a final, it could ruin the final. Just look at Wimbledon… after that marathon Mahut-Isner match, Isner could barely play the next match. Now I hope I’m proven wrong, but there is every likelihood that this recent marathon Anderson-Isner semifinal is just as likely to have ruined the final.
Surely they could set things up so that is a full day’s rest between the semifinal and final.
One day’s rest is insufficient recovery time after an 11-hour match. (that was the length of the Mahut-Isner match)
What are the odds a soccer game would go for 11 hours?
What are the odds that a Belgian amateur women’s basketball match ends with a score of 2-1 ? And yet…
How the hell did that happen???
I tell the story of memory because it happened almost 40 years ago. This match was to look like a Monty Python sketch, I guess the key word is “amateur”.
Huh?