Tennis Terms Zero
In Tennis why do they count in increments of 15, and say “love” instead “zero” in terms of points?
While playing Tennis One day, I got curious and thought, “Hey, why do they do that?” Now I’m asking you. Answer away!
It’s to avoid confusion.
During a match, you have to keep track of the score in the service game and in the set itself. Since zero through 6 (sometimes 7) are already being used to keep track of the set score, they use a different scale for the game score.
Basically, if you are serving, are winning 4 games to 2, and won 3 points and lost 2 in your service game, the score would be 4-2, 40-30. If they kept the game score by just counting number of points won, it would be 4-2, 3-2. And that would just get confusing.
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