Thanasi Kokkinakis has become the marathon man of tennis, a veritable magnet for late-night, drawn-out, exhausting and nearly always nail-biting drama, played out over five undulating acts.
"You know, they're incredible learning experiences, great stories really to tell," enthuses the Adelaide scrapper, musing to AAP in London about the five epic grand slam five-setters and those other Davis Cup nail-biters he'd endured in 2024.
"They're great battles, those five-setters, they're fun too even if it hurts my body when I play a couple of days later. Four-and-a-half, five hours, yet maybe it comes down to who's sharpest in just a couple of moments.
