WIMBLEDON, England — Sam Querrey and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga finished off a full day of work in 4 minutes 14 seconds on Saturday. That was all the time needed to decide their third-round Wimbledon match, which had been suspended after 2 hours 53 minutes the night before.

When they returned on Saturday, Tsonga, seeded 12th, was serving in the 12th game of the fifth set, aiming for a 6-6 tie. But Querrey, the 24th seed, broke him for a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-5 win.

“It was anticlimactic,” Querrey said, “but I will take the one game like that over anything else.”

The two-day, seesaw match provided some insight into how suspensions are handled at Wimbledon.

As darkness began to envelop the grounds on Friday, it grew increasingly clear — with visibility growing increasingly unclear — that the match was in danger of being interrupted. So after Querrey held his serve to take a 6-5 lead, Mark Darby, the tournament supervisor, went to the players as they sat in their chairs and told them, in a leading way, that they could decide what to do.