World's Longest Tennis Match - Neatorama

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Yesterday, US player John Isner won the longest tennis match in history by defeating Nicolas Mahut by 70-68 in a final set at Wimbledon. The competition lasted more than eleven hours spread over three days:

Picking up at 59-59 in the fifth set Thursday, the match continued on serve with no break points until the American hit a backhand passing shot to finish the contest in front of a packed crowd on Court 18.

You can watch the winning play at 20 seconds into the video.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/06/24/sports-ten-wimbledon-marathon-match_7717203.html?boxes=Homepagetopnews via The Presurfer

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Impressive, but it would be more impressive had it been eleven *continuous* hours.

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Glad to see they recognize the loser as much as the winner. He deserves it for the endurance (and obviously great play to make it last that long of a match). kudos to both!

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Well, that's nothing. The longest Quidditch match lasted 3 months.

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So far as I know, cutting glass actually sharpens scissors. I cut the necks of glass bottles with my sewing scissors in-between sharpenings.

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I wouldn't try it. I dont like glass cut or getting glass shards in my skin.

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The water also seeps into the crack you are generating and causes it to propagate more easily. It is usually recommended to wet glass even when cutting it "conventionally".

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i think he/she just switched out the sheet of glass with plastic when they put it in the water

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what happens when he tries to drain the water (a sink full of broken glass and all).

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But is it cutting straight and clean?

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There will be no satisfactory answer till someone tries it.

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All my year of scoring, tapping and grinding stained glass were wasted! If only i have known that a bucket of water was the key.
The glass was likely scored with a diamond wheel first and the scissors are just breaking along the score lines.

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What is it with all these douchebags who don't know how to make a simple video? This doesn't show anything. I wanna see the finished cut - up close! It takes half the frickin vid to establish that, yes, it's glass! I think he just breaking it off with the scissors underwater to avoid the shrapnel.

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I'm with you, Mark. All those years of scoring, tapping and crunching glass wasted!

If only I'd known!

/If this works, I'll buy everybody a beer. EVERYBODY!

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http://www.spectrumglass.com/Library/ScoreArticles/NoFishStory.html

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This does work, I remember seeing this done in my seventh grade science class. It's just a novelty, though- you can't get any precision.

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I belive this really only works with some kind of safety glass.

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Will one of you please just try it? He says in the comments on youtube to use thin glass like from a frame. Go go go!
btw complaining about online video quality is like complaining about the weather.

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I just tried it with the glass from a picture frame...

It just broke. Honestly, I pressed on the scissors and it snapped it, not cut, snapped.

So, it doesn't work with all glass obviously.

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in my world all glass gets cut nicely with scissors under water.

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In my world, I get to play strip backgammon with supermodels.

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Or, the water hid the glass pane when he did a switch in the water

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i tried it and my sink exploded, hollywood action movie style!

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Even if it does work, how does one pick up the shards of glass at the bottom of the sink or bucket without slicing off a fingertip? I want to see THAT video.

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Don't try this at home!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBMtbVonAIg

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