Vicki Nelson-Dunbar is a former professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from the United States

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. During her career she won one top-level singles title (at São Paulo

São Paulo

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 in 1986), and reached the fourth round of the US Open in 1982.

Nelson-Dunbar holds the record for participating in the longest women's tennis match against Jean Hepner

Jean Hepner

Jean Hepner was a professional tennis player from the United States.Hepner is notable for holding the record for participating in the longest women's tennis match in a match against Vicki Nelson-Dunbar at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, which lasted six hours and 31 minutes...

which lasted six hours and 31 minutes. More extraordinary still: That match featured the longest rally ever played in tennis history, a 643-shot rally that lasted 29 minutes. The game occurred on September 24, 1984 at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia.

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