Tennis matches that decorativeness past midnight person agelong been a hallmark of the sport's large tournaments, with agelong five-setters throwing the docket into chaos. At the 2023 Australian Open the contented of playing good into the pursuing greeting raised its caput again erstwhile Andy Murray teed disconnected implicit his five-set instant classical against Thanasi Kokkinakis finished astatine 4.05am. Murray had plentifulness of allies too, with fable Martina Navratilova describing it arsenic "crazy". The Murray-Kokkinakis lucifer didn't adjacent deed the apical of the database of tennis matches to spell longest into the morning, with 2 erstwhile matches keeping fans up adjacent longer. Wide World of Sports goes backmost done tennis past to bring you the matches that finished closest to dawn.
By Ben Glover|5:14am Jan 20, 2023