While most sports keep the scoring system simple, tennis… not so much. It is believed that the scoring system comes from medieval France and that
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On the total polar opposite spectrum of Isner-Mahut, the shortest Grand Slam final ever took place in 1988 when Steffi Graf took Natalia Zvereva to the woodshed
The longest match on record took place in 2010 at Wimbledon, when John Isner and Nicolas Mahut went gladiator on the courts in a ridiculously
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal won 20 Grand Slam titles in singles, while Margaret Court won 24 Grand Slam titles in single. Player
That is because one of the official duties of early refs was timekeeping. Then again, there wasn’t that much time to keep: the 24-second shot
Players never could advance the ball. Instead, each player had to throw it from wherever he caught it. The first team credited with advancing the
At this point, Liverpool has won the cup six times, Manchester United has won the cup three times, Nottingham Forest has won twice, and Aston
Hat tricks be damned. In 2012, Lionel Messi of Barcelona became the only player to score five goals in one game, and some will argue
The quickest hat-trick: The quickest hat-trick in a football game was scored by Sadio Mane in a Southampton vs Aston Villa game in 2015, he
Highest match score: The highest score ever recorded in a professional football match was 149-0 when the team SO l’Emyrne purposely lost the game due