Isner makes history as first player to win 500 ATP Tour level tie-breaks during Dallas Open win

John Isner won a match last night and it featured a tiebreak, his 500th tiebreak win on the ATP-tour level which is a new record and it came in his backyard in Texas.

Isner is a long-time Texas resident and naturally, he opted to play for the Dallas Open. He is playing well at the moment which isn't a surprise considering how well the conditions there work for him but the match featured a tiebreak. Many of his matches have and you'd probably have a tough time finding matches that didn't.

The tiebreak win over Emilio Gomez was the 500th tiebreak he won on the ATP tour which is a record. Speaking after the match, Isner responded to the achievement with a joke about being glad that the seconds set wasn't the 501st he had to win:

“I’ve won a lot of tie-breaks in my career, and in the first set I won a big number of them: 500 of them. I’m very glad I didn’t have to win 501. It just comes with a lot of experience, being in that situation. I would love to win matches like Novak does, 6-,1 6-0, but it’s just not my style."

He added:

“A lot of times I live by the sword, like I have this week, and a lot of times I die by the sword. I take the good with the bad. I think something about being at home is calming my nerves in those big situations. I’m very happy, very lucky to have this tournament here.”