Some in the tennis world railed against the rule that set up a 6-hour marathon match at Wimbledon
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- Kevin Anderson defeated John Isner in a marathon semifinal on Friday that lasted over six hours.
- After the match, Anderson called for changes to Wimbledon's rules which don't allow for a tiebreaker to be played in the fifth set.
- John McEnroe echoed Anderson's comments, saying change needed to happen this year.
Kevin Anderson is through to the final at Wimbledon after a grueling match against John Isner.
Anderson and Isner went at it for over six hours due to Wimbledon's particular rules regarding decisive fifth sets. While some other tournaments are fine with matches coming down to a fifth set tiebreaker, at Wimbledon, a player must break their opponent's serve and win the set by two games.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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