![]() Her husband, Keith Dunbar, was a professional tennis coach and their 13-year-old son, Jacob, was the top-ranked player in the country in the 12-and-under division last year. Nelson, who goes by Nelson-Dunbar after marrying, lives in Medina, Ohio, and remains involved in the sport. But I didn’t stay out there for six hours to get attention I just wanted to win that match badly.” “I had a lot going on in my personal life at that time and I was trying to turn my career around and it was getting tougher to do. “Even now, just thinking about it, my stomach is starting to hurt,” Hepner said. That match, however, was suspended by darkness in the fifth set, so the final 1:55 was played the next day.)īoth Nelson and Hepner seem vaguely embarrassed that their names are in the record books. (In the 2004 French Open, Fabrice Santoro defeated Arnaud Clément in 6:33. The 6-hour-31-minute marathon was itself the longest match in tennis history for nearly 20 years and remains the longest match completed on a single day. The rally between Nelson and Hepner occurred in the first round of the $50,000 Virginia Slims-sponsored Ginny tournament at the Raintree Swim and Racquet Club in Richmond, Va., with Nelson finally prevailing, 6-4, 7-6 (11). For comparison, during a match last month, Andy Murray and Julien Benneteau had a rally that lasted 53 shots, and it was the longest either of them could remember playing in competition.
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