Tennis is a game where, if two players of equal skill and stamina go against each other, they will be locked in a cycle of advantage and deuce until the end of time.

While scientists have tried to create such a perpetual motion machine by adding overtime and extra innings to other sports, not until tennis have they finally achieved what once was thought impossible.

In the future, everything will be powered by large tennis farms.

@ftl Holy heck in a handbasket, eleven hours?!

That's amazing.

@ziphi Over three days, with the match being suspended due to darkness, twice!

They outlasted the on-court scoreboard (which broke at 47-47 in the fifth set) and the online scoreboard (which lasted until 50-50)!

@ftl I am stuck between that being absolutely hilarious and absolutely amazing on the part of the athletes.

I can't even imagine the amount of endurance that must have taken.

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