There is something in this Isner-Mahut match that says something, something about perseverance taking us into remarkable places, that talent alone is not the determinant of what is remarkable, but a refusal to be cowed when all expectation, energy and convention says "Give up now."

Elsewhere, I've come across this version of the Lord's prayer for the England team: the start isn't bad (although possibly violating the third commandment) - "The Wayne is the Lampard" signals a weak ending.  Cue lots of of meditations on sport as the new religion, further proof of something we already knew.

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