One is reminded of the Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, where the scoreboard was limited to 47 games, and it went far over, and an IBM eng

One is reminded of the Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, where the scoreboard was limited to 47 games, and it went far over, and an IBM engineer had to work all night to fix it. 47 was over double the previous record, so everyone thought it was extremely low risk, and not worth worrying about. But it did happen. Over ten years on and no other match has come close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbledon_Championships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_t...