he came from two sets to love down to beat tanasi kokkinakis 3—2 in the longest game of his career.f the latest finishing games — at five hours, 45 minutes, ending at 4am — which reportedly makes it one of the latest finishing games in the history of the sport. it ended at 4:05 a:m., making it one of the latest finishing games in the history of tennis. still a good 45 minutes short of the record from a match in acapulco, whose conclusion came at nearly 6am. annabelle croft is our correspondent, it's a good thing you're in the uk and australia because it would be at the middle of the night that we would be talking. i know you've had a long day. what's the latest match you've ever had? i would never have finished in the early hours of the morning the way these tennis players seem to do. i know jamie these tennis players seem to do. i knowjamie murray these tennis players seem to do. i know jamie murray has been tweeting today about it being utterly ridiculous and they need to change it. they have a day and night session, but the day session final match has been going long, sometimes b

when he lost the first two sets to australian tanasi kokkinakis, at 35 it seemed another grand slam hopee looked beaten. but, of course, murray never is. it's ridiculous! and while he milked the crowd, kokkinakis lost his cool. after serving for the match, that was the third set gone as murray rolled back the years. it was gutsy, it was glorious, and it was 2—2. by now it was more of an endurance test than a match, murray's longest ever. but after five and three quarters hours and gone 4am in melbourne, it was all worth it. he's officially superhuman. the word epic doesn't come close. a victory to defy time, logic and belief. i don't know how i managed to get through it. i did start playing better as the match went on. and, yeah, i have a big heart. delight, then, for him and his watching mum judy. another extraordinary chapter in one of british sport's most extraordinary careers. two days to recover and he goes again. that was a second round match. the third round is under way with british number one, cameron norrie, hoping to avoid such a marathon, and has just won the first set agains