Filed under: U.S. Open, ATPThe thing that stood out about John Isner was not just that he was a freakishly tall guy playing a freakishly long match at Wimbledon. It was his courage to keep going through pain and exhaustion and, surely, mental anguish. It was his stubbornness.
We learned that day that no matter how he's playing or how he's feeling, win or lose, he's going to see it through.
But sometimes your greatest character traits are the same things that bring you down. The question for Isner now is this:
What on earth are you thinking?
Isner said he completely tore the ligaments in his right ankle during a match in Cincinnati last week. Yet he's still in the draw at the U.S. Open, which starts Monday.
"Had a good day today,'' he wrote on his Twitter account a few days ago. "Things might be looking up. Who needs practice anyways?''
A day earlier, he wrote this: "Not giving up hope.''
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