A glum John Isner rues his play in Europe after losing a record-setting 76-game match at Roland Garros to Paul-Henri Mathieu, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 18-16 in the second round. At five hours and 41 minutes, it was also the second longest match played at the French Open, behind Fabrice Santoro's six-hour-and-33-minute win over fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clement in 2004.
"I never felt comfortable," said Isner, who also lost early at Madrid, Rome, and Nice. "It's been like that since I've been in Europe, really. Bit of a, I don't know, slump, I guess you could say. I just didn't play the right way. I've just been getting too frustrated in general. You come over here and you want to do well, and you don't do that well so you have long days. I just let this whole trip get to me. It's the absolute wrong thing to do. It's very bad on my part, I never felt like I was in a good rhythm at any point. I guess I have been over here for four weeks....I'm going to go home. I don't even want to think about tennis right now."