It's 16,032 kilometers, or nearly 10,000 miles, from Virum, Denmark, to Sydney, Australia.
Opposite ends of the planet. Makes a fellow wonder how much farther it would be to travel the opposite way around the ice-bound poles (don't try it, that's an extra 8,000 kilometers).
But there they were Sunday — Dane Mikael Torpegaard vs. Aussie Aleks Vukic — representing Ohio State and Illinois, respectively, here with the No. 1 collegiate individual tennis ranking in the balance.
This was high-level stuff, the 6-foot-4 Buckeye junior holding the nation's top spot with a 41-1 dual-meet record.
But Vukic has been increasingly hot since losing to Oklahoma's Andrew Harris in the second match of the season Jan.