The Herald looks at six rallies that look like they'll never end. Photo / YouTube.
The Herald looks at six rallies that look like they'll never end. Photo / YouTube.
There aren't too many things better to watch in sport than an epic rally that stretches athletes to the very limit.
The Herald looks at six rallies that look like they'll never end and believe me, you don't want them to.
Volleyball Watch as Canada and Mexico do battle in thepreliminaries of the 2015 Pan Am Games with this incredible 23 second rally. It features Canada's Steve Marshall miraculously saving the point with his foot before his team wins the rally.
Table Tennis Germany's Timo Boll and Croatia's Andrey Gacina are playing in the quarter-finals of the 2012 European Championships and watch as the pair force each other further away from the table with shots you could only dream of. Gacina's incredible resistance was eventually broken after 23 seconds.
Squash It's the 2012 World Open final between two Egpytians and Mohamed El Shorbagy and Ramy Ashbour battled away for a full 53 seconds before El Shorbagy wins the point with a casual shot through his legs.
Tennis Rafael Nadal was unstoppable at the peak of his powers. His winner in this epic 26 second rally against Fernando Verdasco in the semi-final of the 2009 Australian Open was both brutal and precise.
Badminton By far the longest rally in our six that had its own controversy. Vietnam's Tien Minh Nguyen and Denmark's Jan Jorgensen smashed the shuttlecock at each other for a full one minute and 54 seconds in the quarter-final of the 2013 World Championships. Jorgensen then lets a close one drop that officials ruled was out but Nguyen disputed the call after battling so hard for one precious point.
Sepak takraw A mixture of football, volleyball and tennis combined produced an exhilarating 13 second rally between Malaysia and Thailand in the 2014 ISTAF Super Series. With the ball sailing well of out play, Thailand's Somporn Jaisinghol returns it while colliding with a cameraman and the advertising boards. It was all vain as Malaysia won the point.
