{"id":4693,"date":"2010-06-24T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcu.onlinebootycall.com\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:40:33","slug":"john-isner-wins-longest-most-boring-match-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/john-isner-wins-longest-most-boring-match-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"John Isner Wins Longest, Most Boring Match Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4694\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4694 \" title=\"isner\" src=\"http:\/\/bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/isner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">you will never know exhaustion like this. img @news&amp;observer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I began this World Cup season believing that soccer was boring and tedious and difficult to understand. While it&#8217;s definitely still tedious and difficult to understand, I get now that it can be just as nerve-wracking and heart-poundingly awesome as football or basketball or hot dog eating contests. The next sport I plan to try and understand: tennis. I mean, it&#8217;s looks relaxing, people wear cute little polo shirts and plaid shorts, and Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany made a totally cute rom-com about Wimbledon a few years ago (just kidding I never saw that stupid crap film).<\/p>\n<p>But after yesterday&#8217;s win by American John Isner after <strong>the longest tennis match in Wimbledon history<\/strong>, which spanned over three days and lasted over 11 hours, I have absolutely no desire to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Isner finally edged out his opponent, Nicolas Mahut, on day three: 70 &#8211; 68. He collapsed on the ground, exhausted, probably because he had been playing tennis for THREE DAYS STRAIGHT. Lucky for him, his win will always be overshadowed by the US soccer team&#8217;s win and Landon Donovan&#8217;s unbelievable last second goal. What were we talking about again?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8212; congrats, John Isner, you are truly an example of a warrior, willing to go the distance for your passion.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the real question: in the rest of the world, do they call tennis like, volleyball, or something?<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4693\" data-postid=\"4693\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4693 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began this World Cup season believing that soccer was boring and tedious and difficult to understand. While it&#8217;s definitely still tedious and difficult to understand, I get now that it can be just as nerve-wracking and heart-poundingly awesome as football or basketball or hot dog eating contests. The next sport I plan to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2756],"tags":[2933,2935,2934,11795,2606,2936,2932,2578],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-news","tag-john-isner","tag-longest-match-in-history","tag-nicolas-mahut","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-is-boring","tag-wimbledon","tag-world-cup","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}