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Basically the full match but the final two points had been removed because of copyright claim.
30 years on it's terrific to see this legendary final onscreen - for some of us, it's the very first time... Even if nightfall hadn’t stopped the match, NBC already had.
On the West Coast, NBC left the doubles match in progress at 1 p.m. PDT to go to live coverage of the U.S. Olympic basketball team’s game against Venezuela in the final of the Tournament of Americas. The network then came back a couple of times to show play being suspended with the match tied, 13-13. “We provided an hour extra of commercial-free tennis coverage when we could have left at 3 (EDT),” network spokesman Ed Markey said. “We had a commitment to basketball and we made the decision to go to that.” It was the second consecutive day that NBC left live Wimbledon coverage and failed to show a match to completion. The network cut away from the women’s singles final at 11:21 a.m. PDT Saturday with Graf leading, 4-1, in the second set and showed taped segments instead of the conclusion of the match. Graf closed out the match in eight minutes, a result that wasn’t shown on NBC until Sunday morning. John McEnroe was the most experienced and the most accomplished player in the men's doubles final at Wimbledon, so it was fitting that the longest doubles match in the tournament's history ended on one of his majestic serves. Coming back for a second day, as a boisterous crowd packed in to Court 1 to see the conclusion of a match suspended Sunday night with the score 13-13 in the fifth set, McEnroe and Michael Stich defeated the fourth-seeded team of Richey Reneberg and Jim Grabb to win their first Grand Slam doubles title. It was more of an endurance contest than a tennis match. Possibly the best doubles final ever played on the lawns here, it offered nearly flawless tennis for a minute more than 5 hours. When McEnroe served deep to the backhand corner at 40-30 in the 83rd game, forcing Reneberg to stab a return into the net, the epic was finally over with the unseeded duo topping the two ex-collegians, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 19-17.
Highlights of the final with the missing points in the final game:
30 years on it's terrific to see this legendary final onscreen - for some of us, it's the very first time... Even if nightfall hadn’t stopped the match, NBC already had.
On the West Coast, NBC left the doubles match in progress at 1 p.m. PDT to go to live coverage of the U.S. Olympic basketball team’s game against Venezuela in the final of the Tournament of Americas. The network then came back a couple of times to show play being suspended with the match tied, 13-13. “We provided an hour extra of commercial-free tennis coverage when we could have left at 3 (EDT),” network spokesman Ed Markey said. “We had a commitment to basketball and we made the decision to go to that.” It was the second consecutive day that NBC left live Wimbledon coverage and failed to show a match to completion. The network cut away from the women’s singles final at 11:21 a.m. PDT Saturday with Graf leading, 4-1, in the second set and showed taped segments instead of the conclusion of the match. Graf closed out the match in eight minutes, a result that wasn’t shown on NBC until Sunday morning. John McEnroe was the most experienced and the most accomplished player in the men's doubles final at Wimbledon, so it was fitting that the longest doubles match in the tournament's history ended on one of his majestic serves. Coming back for a second day, as a boisterous crowd packed in to Court 1 to see the conclusion of a match suspended Sunday night with the score 13-13 in the fifth set, McEnroe and Michael Stich defeated the fourth-seeded team of Richey Reneberg and Jim Grabb to win their first Grand Slam doubles title. It was more of an endurance contest than a tennis match. Possibly the best doubles final ever played on the lawns here, it offered nearly flawless tennis for a minute more than 5 hours. When McEnroe served deep to the backhand corner at 40-30 in the 83rd game, forcing Reneberg to stab a return into the net, the epic was finally over with the unseeded duo topping the two ex-collegians, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 19-17.
Highlights of the final with the missing points in the final game: