John Isner
American tennis player
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| June 2024 | John Isner made his professional pickleball debut, competing in men's doubles at the Texas Open. |
| September 2023 | Retired from professional tennis following the US Open, concluding his professional tennis career. |
| September 1 2023 | Retired from professional tennis after his final doubles match, partnering with Jack Sock. |
| August 2023 | Announced that the US Open would be the final event of his professional tennis career. |
| August 31 2023 | Played his last singles match at the US Open, losing in the second round to Michael Mmoh in five sets. |
| June 12 2023 | Isner exited the ATP rankings top 100. |
| January 2023 | At the Dallas Open, Isner won his 500th tiebreak, becoming the first man to achieve this record in the Open Era. He reached the semifinals and his 31st final, ultimately losing to Wu Yibing after firing 44 aces. |
| 2022 | Played a significant role in the adoption of 10-point fifth-set tiebreakers at all four Grand Slam tournaments. |
| September 2022 | At the US Open, won first round match against Federico Delbonis with 19 aces, but fractured his left wrist during the match and subsequently withdrew from the second round. |
| June 2022 | At Wimbledon Championships, passed Ivo Karlovic's ATP record of 13,728 career aces during third-round match against Jannik Sinner, hitting 24 aces and becoming the fifth man since 1991 to reach 1000 aces at Wimbledon. |
| May 16 2022 | Reached top 20 in doubles rankings after partnering with Diego Schwartzman at the Italian Open, becoming the first player to reach three Masters 1000 doubles finals with three different partners in the same year. |
| March 2022 | Won the Indian Wells Masters doubles title with Jack Sock, defeating Santiago González and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the final. |
| March 2022 | Won the Miami Masters doubles title with Hubert Hurkacz, defeating Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios in the semifinals and sixth-seeded Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski in the final, becoming the second man in history to achieve the 'Sunshine Double' in doubles. |
| August 16 2021 | Reached the semifinals at the Canadian Open, defeating multiple seeded players including 13th seed Cristian Garín, 4th seed Andrey Rublev, and 11th seed Gaël Monfils. Lost to top seed Daniil Medvedev in straight sets. Elevated to world ranking No. 26. |
| July 2021 | Won a record sixth title at the Atlanta Open, defeating Brandon Nakashima in the final. |
| July 2021 | Won his sixth ATP doubles title at the Los Cabos Open, partnering with Hans Hach Verdugo as wild-card entries. |
| April 2021 | Fell out of the top 30 world rankings for the first time in 10 years after failing to defend points at the Miami Open, marking the first time since computerized rankings began in 1973 that no American men were in the top 30. |
| 2020 | Reached the semifinals of the ASB Classic tennis tournament, losing to eventual champion Ugo Humbert 6–7, 4–6. |
| 2020 | Participated in the Australian Open, reaching the third round before retiring with a foot injury during his second set match against former champion Stan Wawrinka. |
| 2020 | Advanced to the semifinals of the Mexican Open before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the ATP tour. |
| 2020 | Competed in the Cincinnati Masters, losing in the third round to Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets. |
| 2019 | John Isner reached the final of the Miami Open, losing to Roger Federer, and maintained his streak of finishing in the top 20 for the tenth consecutive year, ending the year ranked No. 19. |
| 2018 | Reached the semifinal at Stockholm tournament, losing to qualifier Ernest Gulbis. |
| September 2018 | Reached the quarterfinals at the US Open, losing to Juan Martín del Potro. |
| July 2018 | Won the Atlanta Open for the fifth time, defeating Ryan Harrison 5–7, 6–3, 6–4. |
| July 13 2018 | Played the second-longest match in Grand Slam history, losing to Kevin Anderson in the Wimbledon Championships semifinals after a grueling 6 hours and 36 minutes, with a final score of 7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 6–4, 26–24. |
| March 2018 | Won the Indian Wells doubles title with partner Jack Sock, defeating the Bryan Brothers in two tiebreak sets. |
| March 2018 | Won the Miami Open, securing his first Masters 1000 title by defeating Alexander Zverev in the final and returning to his career-high ranking of world No. 9. |
| 2016 | Hit the ATP's fastest official serve ever during a first-round Davis Cup match. |
| January 2016 | Switched tennis attire sponsorship from Lacoste to FILA at the Australian Open. |
| June 24 2010 | Defeated Nicolas Mahut in the record-breaking Wimbledon match with a final score of 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–3), 70–68, setting records for most aces (113) and most games won in a Wimbledon match (92). |
| June 22 2010 | Began the historic first-round match against Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon Championships, which would become the longest match in tennis history, lasting over 11 hours across three days. |
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