Sports Writing, 11 Feb. Victory against Ecuadorian Emilio Gómez in the quarter-finals of the Dallas tournament offered an additional prize for American John Isner who became the first player to win 500 tie breaks.
The 37-year-old Californian, with sixteen titles behind him and fourteen other finals, is ahead of legendary tennis players like the Swiss Roger Federer and the Americans Pete Sampras and Andy Roddick. Isner overtakes the former Basel player by 34. Sampras finished his career with 328 tie-break wins and Roddic with 303.
Active are the Serbian Novak Djokovic who has 299 and the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, with 263 tie breaks won.
Isner has won 61% of the tiebreakers he has played in. “I’ve won a lot of tiebreakers in my career, and in the first set I made number 500,” he said.
“I just have a lot of experience in these situations although I would like to win games like Novak, 6-1 or 6-0, but that’s just not my style,” said Isner, who claims to other records such as most aces. , ahead of the Croatian Ivo Karlovic, with more than 14,000. EPE
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