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If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. Related Stories. Then, you can make your mind up on whether they sound likely to have caused such a weird and wonderful tennis scoring system! A tennis game starts with both players locked in at The next point available after 30, is 40 not 45 like you might be expecting! More on this later. From this, a player must win two points in a row to win the game.
If a player got to Advantage, then lost the next point, the score would reset back to Deuce, until one player took the game. This exciting footage makes us really glad tennis is scored the way it is, even if it is a bit weird! Once a game has been won, 6 games must be won by two clear games, ie. Depending on whether a match is the best of 5 first to 3 sets or the best of 3 first to 2 sets will determine when a player goes on the match. The number of sets required to win is obviously always pre-determined before the match, but varies depending on the particular competition venue, level and gender.
There are a few more intricacies than this, like tiebreaks, and what happens in the final set at Wimbledon if players are locked in at set all, but this provides a very good overall picture, should you have been in the dark about how tennis is scored the way it is before reading the above! However, if a player fails to score twice in a row, then the clock would move back to 40 to establish another deuce.
Think about it, 15 Fifteen , 30 Thirty is easy to say since it only includes one word. However, 45 in 2 words forty-five. The palm game was quite similar to tennis, but the big difference was that they used their hands instead of rackets.
The palm game courts are exactly 90 feet long and 45 on each side. When a player wins a point, he got to move up 15 feet on the court, if he won another point he got to move up another 15 feet, 30 feet in total for 2 points. If the player wins the third point, he would need to move into the net, since the courts are 45 feet long.
Therefore the third pointer was 10 feet, which gave the 15 30 40 scoring system. The scoring for the palm game was exactly the same as the tennis scores are today and because of that, there are a lot of historians that strongly believe in this theory. It does make more sense than the clock theory, but it needs to be said that the clock theory got more proof behind it. The third Theory is that the 15 30 and 40 were copied from the game sphairistike, which was played by British officers in India during the 19th century.
The first to win six of these by two games ahead wins a set. If the game count is ever six all, then the players go into a tiebreaker. Once a set is over, the entire process is repeated until someone wins the best two out of three sets.
To see where the modern tennis scoring system originated from, you must go back to 12th Century France. During this time, one of the earliest versions of the game was being developed, jeu de paume, or palm game as it would be translated in English. This version of tennis was originally played with the palm of the hand and rackets were not introduced until the 16th Century.
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