Cape Town tennis players Carlos Gomes and Wendy Thompson are aiming to break the Guinness world record for the longest singles tennis match to raise funds to revamp tennis facilities in the Western Cape townships of Khayelitsha and Kayamandi.They plan to get their bid, to set a world record of 65 hours of unbroken tennis at the Constantia Tennis Club, under way on February 3, aiming to top the record of 63hr 27min 40sec set by a German duo two years ago. If all goes according to plan, they will set that new mark at dawn on February 6.The bid has been sanctioned by the Guinness Book of Records, which will scrutinise every minute of their bid, allowing them five minutes per hour rest, which they plan to accumulate to allow them to catnap for 45 minutes every 12 hours."We are also allowed the usual ATP rules of time between matches and sets," said Gomes, a sales rep and chairman of the Constantia Tennis Club that will host the record attempt.He said the idea came about after he and Tho...
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