Isner - Mahut Match, 2010 Wimbledon Championships

The match took place on Court 18 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, where the thirteen-day Wimbledon Championships are held every June and July. The match began on the tournament's second day, and ran on into the fourth, Thursday 24 June.
The Frenchman Mahut was not ranked high enough to qualify for the tournament automatically, and so had to progress first through the qualifying pre-tournament. In this he was seeded 27th. He played three qualification rounds, beating Frank Dancevic 6–3, 6–0, in the first round, then Alex Bogdanovic 3–6, 6–3, 24–22, and finally Stefan Koubek in five sets, 6–7(8), 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4. He had thus already played an unusually large amount of tennis in the week before the main tournament. Having played through the qualifying stage, Mahut was drawn against the 23rd-seed American Isner in the first round of Gentlemen's Singles.