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Isner - Mahut Match, 2010 Wimbledon Championships
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The chair umpire throughout the match was the Swedish official Mohamed Lahyani. Lahyani said after the match that he was so "gripped by the amazing match" that his concentration stayed solid and he didn't think about eating or going to the toilet. On the second day of the match, two groups of 14 linespeople and four groups of 28 ballboys and ballgirls had to be used in a rotation to support the game. At the end of the match, the umpire announced the score incorrectly, accidentally switching the scores of the two tie-break sets.
Immediately after the end of the match, both players and the umpire were presented with a special award (crystal bowl and champagne flutes) from the Wimbledon hosts the All England Club by Tim Henman and Ann Haydon-Jones, followed by a photo taken showing the result on one of the two Court 18 scoreboards.
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