Mark your calendars. Tennis history has just been made. Earlier this week John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in the first roiund 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68. For those of you who like numbers, Isner's single game state line reads: 183 games played, 92 games won, 112 Aces, 246 winners, and 11 total hours of playing time – all over the course of three days. That's almost a full tournament's worth of tennis in one match-up.
On the one hand, mere participation in such an event is a superhuman physical feat. Moment to moment, tennis is one of the most physically demanding and exhausting sports that can be played. Predictably, the battle