tennis scoring rules?

Question

i've been trying to play tennis for a year or two but i never understood the rules for scoring. could someone please explain them to me?

Answer 1

1. You start at zero, which in tennis is called "love"
2. The first point is "15"
3. Second point is called "30"
4. Third point is called "40"
5. After that is game, unless, you are tied 40-40, which is called "deuce"
6. The winner of "deuce" gets "advantage in" (if the server is winning) "advantage out" (if the reciever is winning).
7. After that is game.
8. If the person with the advatage loses, you go back to "deuce", play that point and go to advantage (keeps going until someone wins both deuce and ad)

If the score is tied 15-15, you say "15 all" or likewise for 30-30 "30 all".

That is for each GAME. The first person to 6 (winning by 2) wins the SET. In women's a MATCH is 3 sets, in men's a MATCH is to 5 sets (but of course you can always play just one set!).

Lets say the score is 6-5. You would have to play another game. If you are still tied at 7-7, you play a "tiebreaker" of 7, where each POINT is a number, and you alternate serve. SO if you serve and win the point, it's now my turn to serve, and I'm down 0-1 (you always say the server's score first).

Contrary to what those above me have said, as far as I know (and in accordance to Wikipedia) there is no 50. Scoring can also be used as in a "no ad" style, where the first point after deuce wins.


Hope this isn't too confusing!

Answer 2

Both players start at Love (0)
You want to say your score first then your opponent's when you're getting ready to serve
Then if you score a point you go up by
15
30
40
Deuce (if necessary which is when both you and your opponenet are 40-40)

Answer 3

I'm 12 and i learned scoring when i was 7. Its real easy but deuce can get hard. You start with love (0), then the first point is 15 (1), the second is 30 (2),then 40 (3). If both players have 40 its deuce. If the server wins that point its add in if the other player wins that point its add out. So for example if the the score is add in and then server wins the next point its the servers game if the other player wins its back to deuce. Its simple a 7 year old can do it.

Answer 4

The scores go as follows, either player winning. If you win the
First point - 15
Second point - 15 making it 30
Third point - 10 making it 40
Fourth point - 10 making it 50 and it is game of a set.
If the scores are tied at 40 a piece, the player needs to win
2 straight points to win the game.
The first player to win 6 games with a difference of 2 games
is the set winner. To win the match, one needs to win 2 sets
in best of 3 sets, or 3 sets in best of 5.

Answer 5

both players start out with love (or 0).
if player one "wins" the first serve it is 15, love
it goes in order from:
Love
15
30
40
50(if you get to 50 before the other player you win that round)

in most games there are 6 rounds
and whoever wins the most out of the 6 rounds wins!!

hope this helped

Answer 6

Eleanore Amour is right on. Except for the score being tied 7-7 it going to a tiebreaker.
If the score is tied 6 games all you play a 7 point tiebreaker. First to 7 points or above by 2 point difference. Could be 23-21 just as long as tiebreaker is settled at 7 or above by 2.
In this case the score for the set would be (7-6) 23-21,

There is no 50 score it goes 15, 30, 40, game or deuce, ad then game. In Pro doubles with no ad scoring which they just introduced it would go from deuce to game. Thus no ad.

When serving in a tiebreaker. If you just served to make the game score 6-6 then your opponent would serve first both in the tiebreaker as well as the first game of next set if there is a next set. She would serve from the deuce side like you would to start a normal game but one point only.
Let's say you break her on that point. She either double faults, hits the ball out or into the net or you hit a winner. You would now serve 2 points starting from the ad side just to keep the scoring in line. It would be 1-0. If you won that point it would be 2-0 with you now serving from the deuce side and you would be what's called up by a mini break.

Answer 7

a long sentence to say.....but you can watch the prince of tennis and you'll know

Answer 8

If you have been playing regularly for over a year, you should know how to score by now. Go to your local library or search the web for help.

I'm assuming that you are playing only with people at or below your, presumed, low (beginner) level (no offense; I'm just saying!), such that none of you knows how to score, well. If so, once you memorize the previous answers, make sure that all players state the score before serving. This will force all of you to remember the scores, and, eventually, it will become second nature.

If you don't mind a "history" lesson: When tennis first started in Europe, the players noticed that the points tended to last at 15 second intervals. Except for "love" (an Anglo pronounciation of the French word "l'oeuf" ("the egg", meaning "zero", as in "a big, fat, goose egg!")), all the time units are two-syllables. Thus, the first point took "fifteen" seconds, the second occurred at "thirty" seconds (i.e., 15 seconds after the first), and - - WHOOPS! - - it isn't "forty-five" because that's three syllables! Instead, it's just "forty"! So, if you can remember the 15 second intervals, as they appear on a watch or clock: it's 0-15-30-45 (40!!!), then you have a simple mnemonic to remember how to score a game.

BTW, you may hear players calling points as "1-2-3-4", instead. These people either don't know how to score properly, or they are quite proficient, and are just reducing the number of syllables to one, or they are playing a variation of the game. Until you know how to score correctly, don't use "1-2-3-4"!

Answer 9

well, no use answering this question because all of the answers above are right..