Longest tennis rally
So what can you do on a Saturday in North Haven, Connecticut, USA (pop. 25,000)? Well if you are Ettore and Angelo A. Rossetti you can have a very long game of tennis that’s what.
On Saturday August 9th 2008 the twin brothers set their minds on becoming Guinness World Record holders by breaking the world record for the Longest Tennis Rally which had stood at 24,696 strokes since 2005. They had actually made a previous attempt in 2007 but succumbing to the drain of energy caused by hitting a rubber ball several thousand times Angelo had fallen asleep while striking the ball at the 19,000 mark!
This time the duo stepped on to the court determined not to be beaten. Uncapping a can of Penn 4 tennis balls the ball was served at 9am…and didn’t stop bouncing for 15 hours. At precisely 12:03am Sunday morning Penn 4 bounced one last time and into the Guinness World Records book. Watched by friends and family the Rossetti brothers had done it; 25,944 strokes of a tennis ball, the longest tennis rally ever….a new Guinness World Record!
28 August 2008