Jan 16, 2025we revisit the five longest men’s singles matches, and five longest women’s, contests that continue to live on in australian open lore. The longest match consisting of two standard sets and a match tie-break was played in the second qualifying round of a $25,000 itf tournament in darmstadt, germany, on july 16, 2024. Jan 17, 2026from djokovic vs wawrinka to nadal vs medvedev, a look at the longest matches in australian open history and the nights that stretched past midnight.
Novak djokovic vs rafael nadal is longest australian open matches of all time. It is still the longest grand slam final ever. Jan 11, 2025the 2012 final between novak djokovic and rafael nadal is the longest match in australian open history (5 hours and 53 minutes).
Jan 14, 2025the longest men’s singles match in australian open history lasted for five hours and 53 minutes. Jan 21, 2025the 2012 finals between rafael nadal and novak djokovic was the longest match in the australian open history. 3 days agoit’s rare that a tennis match stops a nation - let alone the entire world - but that’s exactly what happened during the 2012 australian open men’s final.
The match was between novak. It was both the longest australian open match and the longest major final match (by duration) in history, lasting 5 hours 53 minutes, overtaking the record previously set by the 1988 us open final between.