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'''John Robert Isner''' (born April 26, 1985) is an American professional [[list of male tennis players|tennis player]]. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 on March 19, 2012, and is currently the highest-ranked male American tennis player.<ref> [[www.atpworldtour.com/rankings/singles.aspx 9th July 2013]]</ref> At the [[2010 Wimbledon Championships]], he played [[Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships|the longest professional tennis match in history]], defeating [[Nicolas Mahut]] in a total of 11 hours and 5 minutes of play over the course of three days. He also played in the 10th-longest match—a 5&nbsp;hour 41&nbsp;minute match in the [[2012 French Open – Men's Singles#Section 5|second round]] of the 2012 French Open. Isner is known for his powerful serve and likes to end points quickly. His return of serve is extremely weak and he only wins 11% of his return games. Most of his matches have a lot of tiebreaks because of his inability to break his opponent's serve.