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You get 15 points, then 15 more, then ten and then game, six games to win (seven if tied at six) a set and two or three sets to win a match - how did this system of scoring get its start? And by whom?

2006-06-29 15:58:14 · 3 answers · asked by Michael C 1 in Sports Tennis

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"The origin of this scoring comes from the (quarterly) stations of the clock, where 'forty' was, presumably, easier to say than 'forty-five.'"

2006-06-29 19:03:07 · answer #1 · answered by mcassassin 2 · 0 0

The score of 45 sounds too much like 40 to 5 or 4 to 5. The points start at 15 because set scores usually did not go up to 15. So the score of 40-30, 8-9 meant the game score is 40-30 and the set score was 8-9. They did not have tie breaks back when tennis scoring orginated.

2006-07-04 07:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by hofertennis@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0 0

it was French. "Love" comes from Louve meaning egg. so thats why the zero is an oval.

2006-06-29 16:03:30 · answer #3 · answered by Mystic 2 · 0 0

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