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Aussie youngster sets record

London July 5 Aussie teenager Ryan Henry set a Wimbledon record for the longest set played at the championships when he defeated France's Clement Morel 26-24 in the final set of a boys singles second round match on Thursday.

It was four games more than the previous highest for a single set when Italy's Nicola Pietrangeli beat Yugoslavia's Niki Pilic in 1962 and Pancho Gonzales overcame fellow American Charlie Pasarell in their longest-ever Wimbledon match in 1969.

But the efforts of Henry's 7-5, 6-7, 26-24 marathon victory over the third seed caught up with him when he went out to play his third round later in the day and was beaten 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 by Slovakia's Luka Gregorc after playing a total of 101 games in the day.

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