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The Swede's US Open record erased overnight

» Published: 28 August 2024

The Swede's US Open record erased overnight
Photo: Manu Fernandez/AP/TT

When Swedish tennis star Stefan Edberg in 1992 - on his way to his second consecutive title in US Open - knocked out American Michael Chang in the semifinal after a 5-hour and 26-minute thriller, it became the Grand Slam tournament's longest match in history.

That record has now been broken. When Briton Daniel Evans hit the match-winning shot against Russian Karen Chatjanov in New York on Wednesday morning Swedish time, they had played for 5 hours and 35 minutes.

The 34-year-old Evans, ranked 184th in the world, won 3-2 in sets, where the first three went to a tiebreak and all five sets lasted over an hour.

In the fifth and final set, Evans was down 0-4, but managed to win six straight games against the 22-year-old Russian, ranked 22nd in the world. Thus, Evans advanced to the second round.

The records for the longest match apply since the tiebreak was introduced in the tournament in 1970.

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