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Tennis match broke two Olympic records2-08-2012 |
The Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares qualified for third round of the Olympic tennis tournament in doubles after beating the Czechs Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek with 1:6, 6:4, 24:22.
The clash set two Olympic records. The meeting was played 63 games, which is with four more than the previous record in couples in the format in two of three sets.
The third set was the longest in the history of the Olympics.
The match was total of 4:21 hours and was played in two days.
On Tuesday, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) and Milos Raonich (Canada) played the longest set of singles, which ended 25:23 in favor of Tsonga.