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One week after he'd lost a Wimbledon final that lasted more than four hours to Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe was on the hot seat on a muggy afternoon inside St. Louis' Checkerdome. The tie came down to McEnroe versus Mats Wilander, then a 17-year-old phenom who'd won the French Open a month earlier. McEnroe took the first two sets 9-7, 6-2, and when he went up 4-2 in the third, the runway appeared in sight. Then things took quite a turn.Wilander came back and won the third by the remarkable score of 17-15. With momentum swinging, he snapped up the fourth 6-3. Starting off the fifth, McEnroe struck a ball near a linesman he thought had given him a bad call. Assessed a point penalty, McEnroe buckled down. With Wilander serving at 6-7, 15-all, McEnroe came to net on the next two points, earned a pair of match points and cashed in his second. At 6 hours and 22 minutes, this remains the second-longest match in tennis history. |