Tommy Haas' marathon win over John Isner at French Open by the numbers
Tommy Haas will face Mikhail Youzhny in the fourth round Monday. (Petr David Josek/AP)
No. 12 Tommy Haas squandered 12 match points, but lucky No. 13 toppled John Isner for a 7-5, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-7 (10), 10-8 win in the third round of the French Open on Saturday. Here are key stats after the marathon match:
9: Match points saved by Isner in the 12th game of the fourth set.
3: Match points saved by Isner in the fourth-set tiebreaker, which he won 12-10.
WERTHEIM: Match of the tournament
4 hours, 37 minutes: The length of the match.
4 hours, 13 minutes: The total amount of time Roger Federer has spent on court through three matches.
9 hours, 27 minutes: The amount of time Isner spent on court over the last 36 hours, as he needed 3 hours, 50 minutes to beat Ryan Harrison 5-7, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-1, 8-6 on Friday. That's not so far off from the 11 hours, five minutes he spent over three days to defeat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010 in the longest tennis match in history.
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121: Games Isner has played in the last two days.
177: Combined winners hit by Isner (92) and Haas (85).
27: Aces served by Isner.
1: Double fault by Haas on match point. It came on his 11th match point.
1: Match point for Isner. Haas saved it after a 12-stroke rally.
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23: Break-point chances for Haas. He converted only three.
0: Number of times Isner sat down during the final changeover. Exhausted and concerned about cramping, he chose to stand.
2007: The last time a player has won back-to-back five-set matches from two sets to love down at the French Open. The lucky man was Jonas Bjorkman, who beat Peter Luczak 6-7(4), 5-7, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 in the first round and Ivo Karlovic 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the second round.
5: Straight Slams in which Isner has lost a five-set match.
5 hours, 41 minutes: The length of Isner's last loss at Roland Garros, to Paul Henri Mathieu, 7-6(2), 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 16-18, in the second round last year. That stands as the second-longest match in French Open history.
3: Straight years Isner has lost in five sets at the French Open.
5-12: Isner's career record in five-set matches.
35: Haas' age. He's the first 35-year-old to reach the fourth round of the French Open since Bjorkman in 2007.
1997: The year Haas played his first five-set match, a 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 1-6 loss to Marcelo Rios in the third round of the U.S. Open.
2008: The year Isner played his first five-set match, a 6-2, 6-3, 5-7, 3-6, 4-6 loss to Juan Ignacio Chela in the first round of the French Open.
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2009: The last time Haas made the fourth round of the French Open. He'll play Mikhail Youzhny in the fourth round for a spot in the French Open quarterfinals for the first time in his 17-year career.
