Men's Tennis: 5 longest Australian Open matches

Modified Dec 31, 2018 04:52 GMT

Novak Djokovic had to spend over 10 hours on court during his semi-final and final win over Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal respectively before lifting his third Australian Open trophy in 2012.

# Ivo Karlovic vs Horacio Zeballos - 1st round, 2017

The tallest player on the ATP Tour at 6'11, Croat Ivo Karlovic has featured in many tiebreak sets over the years. He has the best serve on the Tour and also leads the Most Aces tally of all-time. Karlovic was the 20th seed and his first round match was against unseeded Argentine Horacio Zeballos. The match saw two records being created - Ivo karlovic set the benchmark for the most aces in an Australian Open match with 75 (4th highest in all Grand Slams) and secondly the match with 84 games played in total overtook the previous highest tally of 83 games (Andy Roddick vs Younes El Aynaoui, 2003 quarter-final) at the Australian Open.

The Croatian giant, Ivo Karlovic came back from two sets down to win the match in 5 sets. With the temperature hovering around 37 degree Celsius, Karlovic, the 37-year-old managed to win the final set 22-20. The final score read 6-7(6) 3-6 7-5 6-2 22-20 and lasted 5 hours and 22 minutes.

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Edited by Kingshuk Kusari