It was the latest finish to a men's final that anyone on Wimbledon's centre court could remember - and an excellent one to boot.

It was just before 9.20 at night, with the court festooned in semi-darkness after almost five hours of epic, see-saw tennis, Rafael Nadal finally prevailed in one of the sport's all-time classics, beating Roger Federer in his attempt to become the first man since the 1880s to win six consecutive Wimbledon championships.

Onlookers were running out of superlatives by the denouement, and not just about the quality of the groundstrokes. It was Wimbledon's longest men's final, perhaps its greatest, a match Nadal finally won 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 9-7.

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