John Isner: The servebot prototype who helped change the principles of tennis | Acing It

In this episode of Acing It, ESPN’s Bill Connelly dives into the profession of tennis’ king of aces: John Isner. Isner’s highly effective serve and the ultra-long matches it helped allow led to an enchanting 16 years of professional tennis, with loads of wild stats and rule adjustments of their wake.

0:00 Intro
0:25 Fun Isner serve stats
1:59 Isner’s profession resumè
2:38 Isner’s return stats
3:19 Tiebreakers must be "Isners"
3:56 How Isner’s Wimbledon epics modified tiebreaker guidelines
4:52 Remembering Isner-Mahut
7:32 What it was prefer to play Isner
8:29 The state of the servebots

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