John Isner

Two-time champion Andy Murray suffered his earliest ever exit from Wimbledon as he was beaten 6-4, 7-6 (4) 6-7 (3), 6-4 by an inspired John Isner in the ...

"If physically I'm in a good place, yeah, I will continue to play. It was touch and go kind of on the Wednesday, Thursday before the tournament in terms of how I was going to be. "It depends on how I am physically," he said. That's kind of what my goals are between now and the US Open." But I felt good physically on the court. The momentum was with Murray but Isner broke for 3-2.

Andy Murray remains determined to improving his ranking enough to be seeded at Grand Slams again after a “frustrating” Wimbledon defeat to John Isner.

“Physically I was not in a good place coming into the tournament last year. I felt like physically I was in a good place. “Then in the fourth set probably lost a game on my serve I shouldn't have, up 30-0. “When I had my opportunities, he served extremely well and didn't give me lots of chances. “If physically I'm in a good place, yeah, I will continue to play. Physically [if] I feel good, then we'll try to keep playing.

Isner has had some iconic matches at Wimbledon, none more so than his marathon 11-hour-and-five-minute clash with Nicolas Mahut in 2010 that spanned across ...

"It was a great honour to play against him today. "This could be at the top, it is super special to everyone of us on tour. I need that to be working. Tonight I guess I was able to. "I might have just been a little better than him today. The age I'm at now, I need to relish these moments, this was one of the biggest wins of my career.

Two-time champion Murray failed to reach the third round for the first time as 6ft 10in missile launcher Isner secured a first career victory over him at the ...

Ten minutes later so was the latest chapter in Murray’s Wimbledon odyssey. Murray’s serve needed to be firing as well, but too often in the early stages he gave Isner a look at his second attempt, and it was a searing return which was too hot for the home favourite as he was broken in the third game. The second set whizzed by with neither player laying a glove on the other, but Isner drew first blood in the tie-break and when Murray got a solitary chance to retrieve the damage he dumped a simple pass into the net.

John Isner fights off a late comeback from Andy Murray to advance to the third round at Wimbledon for the first time since his 2018 semi-final run.

He hit a 138-mph ace — his biggest of the night — to bring up three match points before sealing victory with a drop-volley winner. Forty-one was also the number of aces Isner needed to break Ivo Karlovic's world record of 13,728. The American had converted just one of 41 break points in his eight previous matches against Murray. He's a massive inspiration to each one of us in the locker room and we're so lucky to still have him around." "At the age I'm at now I need to relish these moments," Isner said after the match finished near 9:30 p.m. local time. The American scored his first win in nine meetings against Murray by combining a typically stellar serving performance with clutch returning and an assured display at the net.

Despite a valiant fightback, the American's impenetrable serving proved a force too great to withstand as Murray succumbed to a 6-4 7-6 6-7 6-4 defeat on ...

It was Isner who earned the decisive break, capitalising on a dreadful lapse in concentration as Murray yanked a simple would-be winner backhand into the net. He broke at the first opportunity, sparking Murray into a familiar self-flagellating rhythm behind the baseline, punching his thigh and glaring at his box as though ready to disown them. Murray vented his ire towards his box, but this was a riddle that players have struggled to solve for over a decade when Isner is in full flow. He gave up just two break points throughout the entire match and summoned a remarkable 36 aces, puncturing the atmosphere whenever pressure swelled, but it would be unfair to reduce his efforts to just one dimension. Isner’s impenetrable serve will always be best remembered for his 11-hour marathon match here against Nicolas Mahut, but it was hard to recall a time when it has been quite so relentlessly precise as this. This was a different and perhaps a more depressing kind of defeat than what Murray endured last year.

"I feel disappointed right now. Obviously I wanted to do well here. I love playing at Wimbledon, a surface that I feel like I can still compete with the best ...

"I really want to try and improve my ranking to a level where I'm getting seeded in slams," he said. "I was pretty angry after the US Open last year," he explained. "I was pretty angry after that match.

Can he continue that flawless record in front of a partisan home crowd tonight? Follow the action live below with Standard Sport's Matt Verri at Wimbledon.

Murray goes early, guesses correctly but the first serve is still too good. 2-0. Isner shanks a second-serve return. Absolutely huge celebrations from the Brit as Isner nets the second-serve return. Here we go then, Murray’s tournament on the line. Serve and volley from the American is too good, 3-1. Isner’s sliced return into the net, 15-0. Isner furious with himself as a he sends a backhand rolling into the net. Groans from Centre Crowd as Murray’s first serve finds the net. The second in after a challenge from Isner, found about a millimetre of the line. Murray 4-6 6-7 7-6 Isner Follow the action live below with Standard Sport’s Matt Verri at Wimbledon. Can he continue that flawless record in front of a partisan home crowd tonight?

The two time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray was defeated by John Isner and is unsure if he will play next year due to concerns about his physical health.

"This is why I still play," Isner said. I literally won a Slam," Raducanu said. This was one of the biggest wins of my career." I guess I didn’t give him many opportunities to spin his web and get me tangled up in it. "Yes, I have had attention. But he could not quite do that enough: Isner hit 36 aces — moving him four away from Ivo Karlovic’s total of 13,728, a record since the ATP began tracking that stat in 1991 — and delivered another 60 unreturned serves across the match’s nearly 3 1/2 hours. Murray, who entered the day 8-0 against Isner, only managed to obtain two break points. But it’s extremely difficult, with the problems I’ve had with my body the last few years, to make predictions." If I got embroiled in too many rallies with him, it just wasn’t going to go well for me. He lost that early twice, in his 2005 debut and in 2021. It was an incredible honor to play him on this court, in front of this crowd," said the 37-year-old Isner, who won the longest match in tennis history by a 70-68 score in the fifth set at Wimbledon in 2010 and reached the semifinals there in 2018. If physically I feel good, we’ll try to keep playing.

But the former world number one admits his injury problems since coming back from career-saving hip surgery mean he cannot offer any guarantees that he will be ...

“If physically I’m in a good place, yeah, I will continue to play. “It was frustrating and it didn’t help," he said. I didn’t play well enough on those points tonight. “The positive is that physically I was fine during the matches. “The serve and return are the two most important shots in the game and I was not able to serve for essentially 10 days off the back of Stuttgart. "I was in a really good place physically and my game was in a good spot.

Two-time champion Andy Murray suffered his earliest ever exit from Wimbledon as he was beaten 6-4, 7-6 (4) 6-7 (3), 6-4 by an inspired John Isner in the ...

"If physically I'm in a good place, yeah, I will continue to play. It was touch and go kind of on the Wednesday, Thursday before the tournament in terms of how I was going to be. "It depends on how I am physically," he said. That's kind of what my goals are between now and the US Open." But I felt good physically on the court. The momentum was with Murray but Isner broke for 3-2.

John Isner has fired 90 aces in his opening two wins at Wimbledon this year. © 2022 Getty Images. Paul Macpherson Jun 30, 2022.

The Frenchman puts about 60 per cent of first serves into play, wins about 65 per cent of first-serve points and holds about 73 per cent of service games. "If I am playing someone ranked much lower than Djokovic at 70 or 80, of course he is still an incredible player, but it might be a little harder mentally to get myself up for hitting two first serves." "I wanted to simulate randomness of performance in a match," Michaels said. Less of a kick, more two first serves and it has served me well in the past. “There have been some situations where I have had the mindset of doing that, where my second serves have been massive. Just going for two first serves,” said Isner, who on Friday is likely to set a new world record for most career aces, needing just five against Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon third round to pass current leader Ivo Karlovic.

The American is likely to set a new benchmark when he faces Jannik Sinner in the third round of Wimbledon Friday.

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The match on Wimbledon's Centre Court on Wednesday pitted two 30-somethings against each other: two-time champion Andy Murray and veteran American John ...

But after he was broken in the fifth game of the following set, the prospects of one more Wimbledon championship receded into the gathering dusk. The last time he added to his collection of titles was in 2019 at an event in Antwerp, Belgium. He had never lost to Isner in eight previous encounters, the last of which was 5½ years ago. A comeback seemed possible after Murray took the third set, the roar of the partisan crowd audible throughout the grounds. “I guess I didn’t give him many opportunities to spin his web and get me tangled up in it. “The age I’m at now, I need to relish these moments.

John Isner, fresh off a match against England's own Andy Murray, looks to pull off another upset against Jannik Sinner. This is a matchup between two top-20 ...

However, Isner is winning 92% of his service games. Sinner is winning 83% of his service games this year. This is one of the closer and more intriguing matches of Friday’s draw.