Longest tiebreaker in tennis

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Several tiebreaks have been attributed as the longest tiebreak in tennis.

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Match tie-breaks (also referred to as supertiebreakers or champions tie-breaks), where a single game is used to decide a match when the score is one set all, have been in general use in doubles matches on the professional tours since the early 2000s. Although it had previously been used occasionally in tournaments affected by bad weather, from the beginning of 2019 the "10 point" match tie-break also became the official method of deciding singles qualifying matches which had reached one set all in ITF tournaments. From the beginning of 2023, when $40,000 tournaments were added to the ITF women's calendar, this rule was changed to apply only to $15,000 and $25,000 tournaments, with all higher-ranked events reverting to the best of three tie-break sets.

Starting from the 2022 French Open, a rule change was agreed to by every Grand Slam tournament, as well as the Olympic Games from 2024, that a 10-point (rather than 7 point) tie-break would be played once the deciding set became tied at 6 games all.

Men's singles

Overall

In August 2013, at the $10,000 Men’s Futures tournament qualifications at Serbia, Zlatibor, Marko Rajic Defeated Sasa Vidojevic in 78-point tiebreak 7-6 (40-38) 63. Despite the match being played without any chair umpire or any lines people, its score has been verified by the ITF and ATP

Grand Slam events

Wimbledon

  • Björn Borg defeated Premjit Lall 6–3, 6–4, 9–8(20–18) in the first round of the men's singles in 1973.
  • John McEnroe and Borg took over 20 minutes to complete a fourth set tiebreaker in the 1980 men's singles final, with McEnroe winning 18–16. Borg eventually won the match 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–7(16–18), 8–6.
  • John Isner won 19–17 in a first set tiebreaker against Jarkko Nieminen in the second round in 2014, eventually winning the match 7–6(19–17), 7–6(7–3), 7–5.
  • Alexander Zverev won 17—15 in a third set tiebreaker against Cameron Norrie in the third round in 2024, winning the match 6—4, 6—4, 7—6(17—15).

US Open

  • Goran Ivanišević and Daniel Nestor played a 20–18 tiebreaker in their 1993 US Open first round match, won by Ivanišević 6–4, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(20–18).
  • Ken Flach won the deciding tie-break 17–15 over Darren Cahill during their second round match at the 1987 US Open. Flach survived 1–6, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 7–6 saving five match points.
  • Novak Djokovic won the first-set tiebreaker 16–14 over Alexandr Dolgopolov during their fourth round matchup at the 2011 US Open. Djokovic won the match in straight sets 7–6(16–14), 6–4, 6–2.
  • In the 2012 US Open men's singles final, Andy Murray won the first set tiebreaker against Djokovic 12–10, which was the longest tiebreak in a US Open final, and went on to win the match 7–6(12–10), 7–5, 2–6, 3–6, 6–2.

Australian Open

French Open

  • Lorenzo Sonego won the third set tiebreaker 19–17 against Taylor Fritz in their third round match at the 2020 French Open. Sonego won 7–6(7–5), 6–3, 7–6(19–17). The previous longest tie-break at French Open: 16–14 (twice)

Other long tiebreakers

Longest match tie-break

Other long match tie-breaks

Men's doubles

Longest regular tiebreaker

Other long tiebreakers

Longest match tie-break

Other long match tie-breaks

Women's singles

Overall

Grand Slam events

Australian Open

  • Anna Blinkova won a final-set tiebreaker 22–20 in her second round match against Elena Rybakina at the 2024 Australian Open, setting the record for the longest Grand Slam tiebreak in the history of women's singles. The final score was 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(22–20). Blinkova won on her tenth match point, the first two of which came in the last regular game of the match and the next at 9–7 in the tiebreaker. She saved six match points from Rybakina, the first of which came at 12–11. [54]

Wimbledon

French Open

US Open

Other long tiebreakers

Longest match tie-break

Other long match tie-breaks

Women's doubles

Longest regular tiebreaker

Other long tiebreakers

Longest match tie-break

Other long match tie-breaks

Olympic Games

Mixed doubles

Longest regular tiebreaker

Other long tiebreakers

Longest match tie-break

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