According to this blog post on Wimbledon.com, the odds were only one in 127.  Leave it to a Cambridge math professor to sap the life out of something remarkable.   But what were the odds of it happening twice?  Is it two in 254?  My mom is suspicious of the draw — and I agree with her — that it sounds almost a little shady, as though the Wimbledon PR people manipulated the matchups to gain a little extra news and web coverage.

Today’s match will, of course, be anticlimactic compared to last year.  If you want to have a good time reliving the longest match ever in style, go back and reread this blog from The Guardian written as it happened last year where the question was asked at 62-61 in the fifth set: “what if it does actually never end? Would Wimbledon eventually have to introduce a new ruling banning all undead and just nudge Thiemo De Bakker through to the third round?”

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