I thought that I'd do a simple time comparison Mahut vs. Isner rematch at this year's Wimbeldon. The match went only 2 hours 5 minutes this year, which is an incredible 6 times quicker than the match from 2010, which spanned 11 hours and 5 minutes. Or a work-day for the average person shorter.
My first thoughts for comparisons were long international flights which worked out pretty well. Assuming that a plane is big enough for a tennis match (unrealistic) they could have replayed the match from 2010 with a few extra minutes for take-off and landing on either side. That would have even been a little tight though. Speaking of which, why don't we have major sports games in planes? Seems like an interesting (albeit expensive) idea or maybe that's just me.
A came across this link yesterday related to the event which I found rather humerus. I'd recommend picking it up around the 3:30/3:45 mark.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-tennis-live
Sources:
www.delta.com (airline chosen at random)
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/wimbledon11/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=6687954
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