Wimbledon 2006
Canada's Daniel Nestor and Mark Knowles of the Bahamas won the longest match in Wimbledon history on Wednesday when they took six hours nine minutes to win a men's doubles quarter-final.
The third seeds beat Sweden's Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry of Australia 5-7, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 23-21 in a match that had started on Tuesday. The final set lasted 193 minutes.
The previous longest doubles match at a Grand Slam was 5 hours, 29 minutes at the 1990 Australian Open when Pieter Aldrich and Danie Visser of South Africa beat Scott Davis and Robert Van't Hof of the United States in five sets, including 23-21 in the deciding set.
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