LONDON -- It took 99 games and three tiebreakers over five sets that took well over 6 hours, but South African Kevin Anderson finally reached the final at Wimbledon on Friday.
Anderson, the No. 8 seed, regularly fired aces against record serving American John Isner for a 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (9), 4-6, 26-24 victory on Centre Court.
The match set Wimbledon semifinal records for number of games (72) as well as duration -- the 6 hours, 36 minute match bested the previous mark by 1 hour, 52 minutes.
Isner won the longest match at Wimbledon -- or any other tournament -- when he beat Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth set after 11 hours, 5 minutes in 2010.