Siobahn Hotaling is a product design manager at Global Payments in New York, where she has worked since 2017. She expanded her professional activities in 2020, joining Gilbert, Arizona’s Adaption Institute as a project consultant focused on organizational growth. Beyond her work in these roles, Siobahn Hotaling enjoys writing and performing music and playing tennis. She has been a part of New York City's LGBT tennis league, the Metropolitan Tennis Group.
Tennis has a unique scoring system compared to time-oriented games like basketball and football. An individual game of tennis could last 40 seconds or more than 15 minutes. Due to the various quirks of the tennis scoring system, matches can be incredibly long, such as the 11-plus hour contest between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut. But they can also be very short.
The shortest tennis match on record took place between Jacker Harper and J. Sandiford at the 1946 Surrey Open Hard Court Championships. Harper dropped just one point in the 18-minute encounter. At the Grand Slam level, William Renshaw’s win over John Hartley at Wimbledon took only 36 minutes, with a score line of 6-0, 6-1, 6-1.
Australian Bernard Tomic was on the wrong end of two time-related tennis records. His 28-minute loss to Jarkko Nieminen at the 2014 Miami Masters event is a record at the masters level. Five years later, Tomic fell in the first round of Wimbledon to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 match took just 58 minutes to complete, one of the shortest matches ever at a major, and Tomic was later fined for lack of effort.
