title: Mel Baleson
text: # Mel Baleson
  
  Mel Baleson is a South African former professional tennis player.
  
  A native of Johannesburg, Baleson featured in doubles main draws at Wimbledon and played collegiate tennis for the University of Nevada, Reno. He won the WCAC singles championship as a freshman, then had a sit out his sophomore and junior seasons due to a NCAA rule change, before returning as a senior in 1974.
  
  Baleson and his cousin Glenn Grisillo set a Guinness World Record in 1971 for the longest continuous tennis match, at 73 hours and 25 minutes, to raise funds for the University of Nevada.
  
  