Image Credit: Hamish Blair/Getty ImagesFirst the World Cup, now this? What an exciting day for sports news! After almost ten hours of play at Wimbledon, a first-round match between American John Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut has become the longest match in tennis history — and it still isn’t over! Due to a rule that prohibits fifth-set tiebreakers at Wimbledon, the tennis stars are currently tied at 59-59, and the match has been suspended until Thursday. It must be grueling for the players, but the audience must be exhausted as well. I’m sure some bored spectator thought, “I’d rather watch grass grow than watch this for another hour,” only to realize that on Wimbledon’s courts, you can do both. Tennis jokes aside, though, this record-breaking match has got me wondering: What else could I accomplish in ten hours? I’ll start the list below, and you can serve up your ideas in the comments!
- Watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Read a new Harry Potter book from start to finish
- Watch a whole season of How I Met Your Mother (without commercials, of course)
- String a tennis racket
- Almost get “Umbrella” out of my head
- Watch an episode of Paula Deen’s Paula’s Home Cooking, get in my car, drive to Savannah, Ga., and eat dinner at her restaurant
- Play Kitten Cannon 1,000 times in a row (Seriously)
- Actually write a letter to someone (A letter? What’s that?)
- Watch Avatar three times
- Eat something, do nothing for a while, eat again, do nothing again, eat…
- Fly to England to watch the rest of the match live
- Watch every aired episode of Viva Laughlin. Five times.
Shoot a pilot, have Fox #&%$ with the pilot, have Fox #&%$ with the airing of the show, and have Fox, cancel the show. Happy birthday, Joss.
Also, typo a lot of misplaced commas.
Bitter, party of one!
Seriously epic game! I love summers when sports are the main highlights!!!
Fly to England…
Watch a whole season of “Mad Men” on DVD.
That’s what i’ve been doing the last few days! Luv it
Have a short labor before delivering a baby.
Watch the entire series of Arrested Development.
Watch Firefly.
get a good night sleep (4 hours should be fine) and then wake up to feed the kids, clean the house, do the errands…
“Fly to England watch rest of match live” bahahahahahaha brillz.
I am not sure I could fly to England from here in 10 hours. Maybe 11. But still, that was the best one.
Watch 10 episodes of Lost, watch 20 episodes of Arrested Development (both of which would be normal for my husband and I).
Watch the entire Godfather trilogy.
Watch the tennis match because it’s awesome!
Agreed. This match is beyond epic! To think just the fifth set alone is longer than any other match in history is crazy! I’ll be watching when it resumes today. GO ISNER!
“Eat something, do nothing for a while, eat again, do nothing again, eat…”
sadly this describes the “activities” that take place on my least productive days lol
And this is why a magazine called Entertainment Weeekly should not cover sports.
Because sports somehow don’t qualify as entertainment? Lighten up!
Because the author spent half the piece diverting it from tennis. Nice tactic, though. Thank you for writing it up. This is truly a historic moment in tennis history. I hope Mahut comes through tomorrow!
Flying to England to watch it live is the most realistic for me. Living in the DC area has its perks.
i second that.
-fill a pool with water
-take ten 1 hr naps
-watch the scream trilogy
-watch band of brothers once
-have a james dean marathon