The words "epic" and "tennis" in the same sentence is enough to strike fear into the hearts of anyone who's ever seen that the live sport they want to watch on Eurosport is scheduled after a tennis match. In a time when sports are trying to rein themselves in and make sure they don't run too long, a tennis match is such a selfishly sprawling mess; after all, it's pretty much the only sport these days where there's no time restrictions, and, technically, a single match could last forever, assuming no one ever gets their two games ahead in the final set. Players like Nadal wandering over to rub their head with a towel after every serve certainly doesn't help things as they meander towards their mindcrushingly dull conclusion.