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Here's Some Pretty Crazy Doubles Play From a Five-Hour Wimbledon Match

The match between Lukasz Kubot, Marcelo Melo and Oliver Marach, Mate Pavić has been going on for eternity.

This Wimbledon doubles final has been going on for a long minute. By a long minute, I mean hours. This shit started at 11:03am EST—four hours and twenty three minutes by the time I reach this sentence's punctuation. (It is still going on as I write this—with one more game to go.) Hell, even my TV schedule says I'm watching the X-Games. I'm not watching the X-Games. I'm watching this crazy-ass doubles match.

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Well, that's a lot of tennis. So if I have to hand pick a moment out of the whole batch, I'd probably go with this one:

Despite the fact that I played NCAA tennis (at a really horrible sports school), I don't know shit about the game. The one thing that I figured out, though, is that it's really hard to go to net. It's such a gamble. Sure, these are doubles—one person can cover you while you're engaging a shot. But putting both up front is like playing that helmet blindfold lightsaber game that Luke loved so much. Reaction times like whoa.

Star Wars references aside, Just watch as Brazil's Marcelo Melo and Poland's Lukasz Kubot take on Austrian Oliver Marach and Croatian Mate Pavić at the net. Marach has to compensate for the short return on his serve, which tipped over the net, by playing up close. Melo comes across-court to slap a lofted ball that was about to jump over his head. Then Marach attempts a cunning slices across net, but Kobot sends it back his way deftly. Pavić has a gorgeous backhand to keep the ball in play, which results in a dainty slap from Melo that Marach finally, successfully, sends across net in a similarly cunning way as before. Confused by that description? Just watch it. It's nuts.

Eventually, the match finished up (I took a long time with that description), and even though Pavić and Marach took the point, Melo and Kubot took the match.

Here's the final score, which is still confusing to me, a former NCAA tennis athlete: