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

In this episode of Acing It, ESPN's Bill Connelly dives into the career of tennis' king of aces: John Isner. Isner's powerful serve and the ultra-long matches it helped enable led to a fascinating 16 years of pro tennis, with plenty of wild stats and rule changes in their wake. 0:00 Intro 0:25 Fun Isner serve stats 1:59 Isner's career resumè 2:38 Isner's return stats 3:19 Tiebreakers should be "Isners" 3:56 How Isner's Wimbledon epics changed tiebreaker rules 4:52 Remembering Isner-Mahut 7:32 What it was like to play Isner 8:29 The state of the servebots ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN+ http://espnplus.com/youtube ✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN ✔️ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV

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