John Isner: The servebot prototype who helped change the rules of tennis | Acing It

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In this episode of Acing It, ESPN’s Bill Connelly dives into the career of tennis’ king of aces: John Isner. Isner’s powerful serve and the ultra-long matches it helped enable led to a fascinating 16 years of pro tennis, with plenty of wild stats and rule changes in their wake.

0:00 Intro
0:25 Fun Isner serve stats
1:59 Isner’s career resumè
2:38 Isner’s return stats
3:19 Tiebreakers should be “Isners”
3:56 How Isner’s Wimbledon epics changed tiebreaker rules
4:52 Remembering Isner-Mahut
7:32 What it was like to play Isner
8:29 The state of the servebots

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