Why is zero counted as ' love' in a tennis match ?
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It seems to have been adapted from the phrase 'to play for love (of the game)' (that is, to play for nothing). Although the theory is often heard that it represents the French word l'oeuf an 'egg' (from the resembance between an egg and a nought) this seems unlikely. But the cricketer's 'duck' is another matter.
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The numbers on the balls are only there to help people distinguish their balls from another can of the same brand on an adjacent court. \n\nNumbers on the tennis balls are right under the logo. This is so that when you have, say, 8 adjacent courts and some are using the same brand or type of ball, then there won't be a mix-up of someone's ball sprays onto the other court. Unless, of course, they're both using the same number tennis balls. For instance, if you are using Penn 3s, the court on your left has Penn 1s, and the court to your right has Wilson 3s, you can tell at a glance which court to throw the extra ball to and in turn they can get your lost ball to you easier.
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An extract from Wikipedia\n\nAs simple as this scoring appears, the running score of each game is described in a manner peculiar to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" (or "zero"), "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty", respectively. The origin of this scoring comes from the (quarterly) stations of the clock, where "forty" was, presumably, easier to say than "forty-five." When stating the score, the server's score is stated first. If the server announces the score as "thirty-love," for example, it means that the server has won two points and the receiver none.
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I think that is amazing to do that. I sure have never done that and I think you deserve praise. What level of tennis players do you play against. The better the level, the more praise you should recieve. That might show you how much of a clutch player you really are and you deserve to feel good about yourself for this amazing feat.
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Although clearly and consistently defining love is a difficult task, and often a subject of much debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more "pure" form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.\nIn ordinary use, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.\n\nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love. Others call it a recently-invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages—though this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry. Others maintain that love really exists, and is not an abstraction, but is undefinable, being a quantity which is spiritual or metaphysical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self-esteem" to another. Others attempt to define love by applying the definition to everyday life.\n\nCultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etc. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value.\n>r
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Love marriage of course...unless you're such a hopeless case that you can't find a wife otherwise then arranging a marriage with her!And what the hell has that to do with tennis?
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the player continues the current match but misses the next one.\nactually its more complicated than that but basically, thats the rule.
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It has to do with the clock. 15 minutes,30 minutes and instead of 45 minutes which is a odd figure ; it is said 40; and at the end of the game 60 means 0 hour or  game. So  the sequence is 15 , 30 , 40 , game. Love means 0 and deuce is double 0 or 00.\n             Advantage maverick, your service sir!\nEdit-: The answer of 'vector4tfc' has substance in it but still the counting has origin in the answer given by me as it is published in some sports book long ago.
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Absolutely correct.\nMoral of d story: Love is not only blind but also weak in Maths.
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The longest match ever was between John McEnroe and Mats Wilander. The match was a doozy! The final score was 9-7, 6-2, 15-17, 3-6, 8-6. And it lasted for 6 hours and 32 minutes.\n\nThe reason that you have scores 9-7 and 15-17 is because this was before the advent of the tie-break. Had the match been played now, the first and third sets would've been decided in a tie-break. The last set in Grand Slams, however, remains tie-breakless. \n\nI hope that helps.
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I can't answer your question directly, but I can provide you with another interesting bit of information.\n\nThe USTA (United States Tennis Association) has stated in the past that 5 per cent of the US population plays tennis regularly, meaning at least once a week. I feel this figure is both outdated and greatly exaggerated, and is likely to be more in the order of 1 per cent.\n\nSince it's impossible to determine the per cent of the US population that are athletes, it's likewise impossible to answer your question.
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The Davis Cup dates way back I believe just before the turn of the 20th cetury and is named after American tennis player Dwight Davis. And as I'm sure you know, early tennis balls were made entirely of rubber. I'm pretty sure that in those older days they only used one ball (or rubber) for each match they played. So, my guess is that these used tennis balls may have been a representation of the matches played in a tie. So, which ever nation has more "rubbers" won the tie between the nations. Just my guess though.
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A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. A set consists of a number of games, and games, in turn, consist of points.\n\nMatches consist of an odd number of multiple sets, the match winner being the player who wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Some matches may consist of five sets (the winner being the first to win three sets), while most matches are three sets (the winner being the first to win two sets).\n\nA set consists of a sequence of games played with service alternating between games, ending when the count of games won meets certain criteria. Typically, a player wins a set when he wins at least six games and at least two games more than his opponent. It has become common, however, to play a "twelve-point tiebreak" or "tiebreaker" when each player has won six games. A tiebreaker, played under a separate set of rules, allows one player to win one more game and thus the set, to give a final set score of 7-6. \n\nA game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than his opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner particular to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" or "zero", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty" respectively. When at least three points have been scored by each side and the players have the same number of points, the score is "deuce". When at least three points have been scored by each side and a player has one more point than his opponent, the score of the game is "advantage" for the winning player. During informal games, "advantage" can also be called "ad in" or "ad out", depending on whether the serving player or receiving player, respectively, is ahead. \n\nA game point occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in the game (the smallest unit of play) needs only one more point to win the game. The terminology is extended to sets (set point), matches (match point), and even championships (championship point). For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 40-love, he has a triple game point (triple set point, etc.).\n\nA break point occurs if the receiver, not the server, has a game point. It is of importance in professional tennis, since service breaks happen less frequently with professional players. It may happen that the player who is in the lead in the game has more than one chance to score the winning point, even if his opponent should take the next point(s). For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 15-40, the receiver has a double break point. Should the player in the lead take any one of the next two points, he wins the game.\n\nFor two years before the Open Era, in 1955 and 1956, the United States Pro Championship in Cleveland, Ohio was played by the Van Alen Streamlined Scoring System (VASSS) rules, created by James Van Alen, who later invented the tie-breaker. The scoring was the same as that in table tennis, with sets played to 21 points and players alternating 5 services, with no second service. The rules were partially created in order to limit the effectiveness of the powerful service of the reigning professional champion, Pancho Gonzales. Even with the new rules, however, Gonzales beat Pancho Segura in the finals of both tournaments. Even though the 1955 match went to 5 sets, with Gonzales barely holding on to win the last one 21-19, apparently it took only 47 minutes to play.[1] The fans attending the matches preferred the traditional rules, however, and in 1957 the tournament reverted to the old method of scoring.
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Stated in Tennis Terminology from the Wikipedia Encyclopedia online:\n\nWalkover – an unopposed victory. A walkover may be awarded as a bye, or more commonly because the opponent defaulted by being disqualified or failing to attend the match—including after withdrawling due to injury.
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It is a day before the US open officially starts. It is designed for kids to learn about tennis meet pros and have fun. There are exhibition matches and performances by bands. I am not sure about the price.
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Are you referring to its use in tennis?\nOr to some other definition. It has several etymologies.\n\nLove: the emotion\nEtymology:Middle English, from Old English LUFU; akin to Old High German LUBA: love, from Old English LEOF dear, from Latin LUBRE, LIBRE: to please\nDate:before 12th century\n\nLove in tennis: from L'ouef, the egg French
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It's stupid method involing complex mathematical calculations. They revise the rules everytime. But in the end no definite way can be established to determine the result of a match. Stupid ICC does it and its not a surprise because they are morons.