Tsurenko & Bogdan Play Longest-Ever Tie-Break At Grand Slam At Wimbledon

Records at Wimbledon aren't broken too often, but it happened this year thanks to Lesia Tsurenko and Ana Bogdan.

We've seen quite a few "long" records at Wimbledon over the years. From the longest match ever to the longest final, it's been a lot of the "long" records. Now, there is another one in the books.

Lesia Tsurenko and Ana Bogdan played a very competitive match. The Ukrainian has been having a spectacular year so far, which hasn't had many negative highlights.

Retiring against Iga Swiatek was one of those, but for the most part, she's put together an impressive year on the WTA Tour, considering the situation back home, which is always on her mind.

She got another great win at Wimbledon by beating Bogdan, even though this win featured a new record. The final set tie-break at Wimbledon is played in the first-to-10 points format in order to avoid what happened in 2010 when John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played a match finishing 70-68 in the final set.

Tsurenko and Bogdan did a mini version of that Mahut and Isner epic by playing 38 points total in the final-set tie-break. The final score was 20-18 for Tsurenko, and that was the longest tiebreak in women's side of tennis history on a Grand Slam level.

On the men's side, similarly long tie-breaks happened a few times before. Back in 1973, Bjorn Borg and Premjit Lall played a tie-break at Wimbledon with that score (20-18 for Borg).

At the 1993 US Open, Goran Ivanisevic and Daniel Nestor played a tie-break with the same score. At the 2007 Australian Open, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Andy Roddick played one with the same score.

Away from the Grand Slams, Reilly Opelka and John Isner played a tie-break that finished 24-22 last year at the Dallas Open. The longest ever happened in 2013 in a men's Futures event. Benjamin Balleret defeated Guillaume Couillard in three sets, one of which ended in a 36-34 tiebreak.