where is the tennis score coming from?
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It originally followed the quarterly markers on a clock face. 15, 30, 45, game(60). Over time, the 45 became 40, probably because it was quicker and easier to say.
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DE L'ANCETRE DU TENNIS.LE JEU DE PAUME ON DISAIT TENEZ AVANT DE SERVIR,MAIS LES ANGLIAS EN L'IMPORTANT ONT MODIFIE TENEZ EN TENNIS
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The problem with how people are answering is they might be missing exactly what you are asking.  If you are asking say the score is 15 all and you are serving from the deuce court and you miss your first serve, that is simply a fault and you then attempt your 2nd serve.  However if the score is say 15-30 and you are serving from the deuce side, after missing a first serve your opponents point out that you incorrectly served from the worng side, they can insist that you serve from the correct side with your 2nd serve.  Most players will simply give the server a first serve again and require that they serve from the correct Ad-court side.
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Last Match\nAdvanta Championships\nPhiladelphia, PA, USA\n3 November 2005\nR16: Kvete Peschke (CZE) \nL 1-6 0-6\n\nResults\n\nAdvanta Championships, PA, Philadelphia, USA \n31 October 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR16 Peschke, Kveta (CZE) 31 L 1-6 0-6 \nR32 (9) Zvonareva, Vera (RUS) 27 W 7-5 6-3 \n\n\nGenerali Ladies, Linz, Austria \n24 October 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR16 (9) Golovin, Tatiana (FRA) 24 W 4-6 6-7(2) \nR32 Meusburger, Yvonne (AUT) 138 W 7-6(3) 6-3 \n\n\nZurich Open, Zurich, Switzerland \n17 October 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR16 Pennetta, Flavia (ITA) 25 L 5-7 1-6 3-6 \nQ-Q Sugiyama, Ai (JPN) 28 L 1-6 2-6 \nQ-R16 Kleinova, Sandra (CZE) 187 W 7-6(3) 6-3 \nQ-R32 Muller, Martina (GER) 112 W 6-1 6-4 \n\n\nKremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia \n8 October 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR16 (4) Dementieva, Elena (RUS) 8 L 0-6 1-6 \nR32 Jankovic, Jelena (SCG) 19 W 6-2 6-1 \nQ-Q Raymond, Lisa (USA) 91 W 4-6 6-2 6-1 \nQ-R16 Kleybanova, Alisa (RUS) 384 W 1-6 6-1 6-3 \nQ-R32 Salerni, Ma. Emilia (ARG) 123 W 6-3 6-3 \n\n\nPorsche Tennis Grand Prix, Filderstadt, Germany \n3 October 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nQ-R32 Gehrlein, Stephanie (GER) 219 L 2-6 6-7(2) \n\n\nUS Open, Flushing Meadows, New York, USA \n15 August 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR32 Mauresmo, Amelie (FRA) 3 L 0-6 1-6 \nR64 Shaughnessy, Meghann (USA) 53 W 2-6 7-5 7-5 \n\n\nRogers Cup, Toronto, Canada \n15 August 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR32 Petrova, Nadia (RUS) 10 L 6-4 1-6 4-6 \nR64 Craybas, Jill (USA) 59 W 6-2 2-6 6-3 \n\n\nAcura Classic, San Diego, USA \n1 August 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nQ Sugiyama, Ay (JPN) 38 L 1-6 2-6 \nR16 Washington, Mashona (USA) 55 W 6-1 6-2 \nR32 Raymond, Lisa (USA) 47 W 7-6(6) 6-4 \nR64 (13) Asagoe, Shinobu (JPN) 25 W 6-1 0-6 7-5 \n\n\nWimbledon, London, Great Britain \n20 June 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \n1r doubles with Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) vs (9) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)-Dinara Safina (RUS)    L 4-6 2-6 \nR32 (2) Sharapova, Maria (RUS) 2 L 0-6 1-6 \nR64 Janes, Amanda (GBR) 266 W 7-5 6-7(6) 7-5 \n\n\nRoland Garros French Open, Paris, France \n23 May 2005\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nQ (16) Likhovtseva, Elena (RUS) 19 L 6-2 4-6 4-6 \nR8 Gagliardi, Emmanuelle (SUI) 105 W 7-5 6-3 \nR16 (11) Williams, Venus (USA) 13 W 6-3 1-6 6-1 \nR32 (19) Asagoe, Shinobu (JPN) 21 W 7-5 6-2 \nR64 Bondarenko, Alyona (UKR) 90 W 4-6 7-5 6-4 \n\n\nMiami, Florida, USA \n2 April 2005, $3 115 000, HARD\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR128 PESCHKE, KVETA (CZE) 82 L 6-3 6-1 \n\n\nIndian Wells, California, USA \n19 March 2005, $2 100 000, HARD\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR64 (1) DAVENPORT, LINDSAY (USA) 1 L 6-3 6-2  \nR128 WEINGARTNER, MARLENE (GER) 70 W 6-7(5) 6-0 6-2  \n\n\nMemphis, TN, USA \n19 February 2005, $170 000, HARD \nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR16 JACKSON, JAMEA (USA) 149 L 6-3 6-4  \nR32 NOORLANDER, SEDA (NED) 265 W 7-5 6-3 \n\n\nAustralian Open, Australia \n29 January 2005, $5 952 601, HARD\nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nR128 (4) SHARAPOVA, MARIA (RUS) 4 L 6-3 6-1  \nQ-R32 (19) PEER, SHAHAR (ISR) 143 W 6-4 7-5  \nQ-R64 ALVES, MARIA FERNANDA (BRA) 182 W 6-3 6-3 \nQ-R128 SCHEEPERS, CHANELLE (RSA) 199 W 6-2 7-6(2) \n\n\nGold Coast, Australia \n8 January 2005, $170 000, HARD \nRnd Oponent Rank W/L Score \nQ (2) SCHNYDER, PATTY (SUI) 14 L 6-2 6-2  \nR16 (7) LIKHOVTSEVA, ELENA (RUS) 24 W 6-2 0-6 7-6(3) \nR32 CAMERIN, MARIA ELENA (ITA) 43 W 6-2 6-4 \nQ-Q (6) SFAR, SELIMA (TUN) 118 W 6-3 4-6 6-1  \nQ-R16 DELLACQUA, CASEY (AUS) 291 W 6-2 6-2  \nQ-R32 (1) LINETSKAYA, EVGENIA (RUS) 95 W 6-1 5-7 6-1
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All of this is from the website listed in the source. Go there for more info.\n\nIn 1890 Mr Hugh Rotherham Secretary of the Coventry Golf Club conceived the idea of standardising the number of shots at each hole that a good golfer should take, which he called the 'ground score.'  Dr Browne, Secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, adopted the idea, and, with the assent of the club's golfers, this style of competition was introduced there for use in match play.  During one competition Mr CA Wellman (possibly Major Charles Wellman) exclaimed to Dr Browne that, "This player of yours is a regular Bogey man". This was probably a reference to the eponymous subject of an Edwardian music hall song "Hush! Hush! Hush! Here Comes the Bogey Man", which was popular at that time. So at Yarmouth and elsewhere the ground score became known as the Bogey score. \n\nPar is derived from the stock exchange term that a stock may be above or below its normal or 'par' figure. \n\n"Birdie", meaning a score of one stroke under Par on a given hole comes from the 19th century American slang term "bird", meaning anything excellent. \n\nEagle & Albatross are extensions of the bird theme.
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You're right on the final score.\n\nClick on the link below for the complete Play-by-Play.
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First, you get a partner and get on a tennis court. Then, at the start of the game, choose who will serve first.\n\nEX:You serve 1st. Start behind the bottom line of the court on you side. Hit the ball into the opposite square on your opponent's side of the court. Make sure you don't pass the little white line in the center. If you don't in the first try, that is a fault. If the ball hits the top of the net and goes over to the other side, that is a let. Redo. No faults, no points. You get a second try. Try to hit the opposite square on your opponents side of the court. If you miss again, that is a double fault and your opponent gets a point. The score would say 0-15.(server's score is always first)Now, you switch sides(from one square to the other)If you succeed, and he/she can't return it, that is called an ace. You get one point(15-15)Now you go back to where you started.(It alternates each point)Now, you serve, and your opponent hits it back to you. It has to go over the net, and in front the line from where you serve, and not in the two boxes at the sides of the court.(Only in play for doubles)It is 40-30 now. You score. You win the game. NOT THE WHOLE GAME! The whole game is called a match. A match is seperated into sets, then games. You win the first set,(out of your choise, 3 or 5 sets.) 6-4.(6 games to win a set and by 2 games. There is a tiebraker, but I don't know that. Sorry.)2nd set:You win 7-5. You win the Match.(If played out of 3 sets.) I don't know if I'm missing anything, but that's my basic way of playing tennis the best way I could explain it.
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He should be the #1 ranked in the world. Ok, so if you beat the #1 and you are #2- shouldn't you move up? He is 5-1 against Federer and has a clay court streak, how could he not be #1 this year?
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Wimbledon Tennis Match
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To put the tennis scoring system as simply as possible, one must win: \n\na. four points to win a game (15,30,40,game).\n\nb. atleast six games to win a set (with a difference of two or more between the game scores) Example below.\n\nc. two sets (or, more rarely, three) sets to win a match \n\nDeuce:- A deuce is any tie in the score starting with 40-40. This means that if the score is love-love, 15-15, or 30-30, it is not a deuce. But any ties after that are considered deuces.\n\nA player must win by two points. So, until a player scores two points in a row after a tie, the game continues. Each point after the deuce is called an advantage point. So, for instance, say the score is deuce, and the server scores. The score is now "advantage-in". (It would be advantage-out if the receiver scored). An advantage means that person only needs one more shot to win the game.\n\nWinning a set:-\n\nExample No.1:-\n\nPlayer A has won 5 games. Player B has also won 5 games.\nPlayer A or B have to win 2 more games inorder to win the set. Lets say player A wins two more games and his/her total is now 7 games. So he/she wins the set, with the score 7-5.\n\nExample No.2:- Player A has 6 games and player B also has 6 games and lets say its not the final set of the championship. Then it ends up in a tie break. \n\nA winner's match score appears in the newspaper as: 6-3, 6-7(2), 7-6(5). what do the numbers in parenthesis mean? \n\n\nYou'll notice that those numbers only appear when the set score is 7-6, indictating that the score went to 6-6, and a tie-break game was used to decide the winner of the set. In that game, the first to score seven or more points, and lead by two, takes the game. \n\nThe number in parenthesis is the number of points scored by the loser. In the above example, the first tie break game went to the loser of the match, by a score of 7-2, levelling the match at one set all. The third set tiebreak was won 7-5, ending the match. \n\nBecause the game has to be won by two clear points, the number scored by the loser can be any number. If it's more than five, the points scored by the winner is two points higher. For example, a (7) would mean the score in the tiebreak game was 9-7.
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I would make my sport called winnepega and one person would start out with a tennis ball at the end of a field then they would throw it to one of their teamates then the teamate would catch it and have to fun back to the person who threw it to him without getting caught by the opponent. This is worth one point. There would be 10 min. in each round and 10 round. The team that got the most points in one round would get a point. And all the points in the round do not count as anything. Whichever team gets the most points wins.
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well, i don't think you need such a thing. whenever problems of scoring occur in the tournament then you don't want to play in it. it's about the integrity of tennis; all people like chair umpire, linesmen, ballboys, scoringboys, players, they need to know the ethics of tennis, otherwise they don't deserve the place in tennis. if you are the event organizer, you might like to try to contact the ITF (itftennis.com) or ATP (atptennis.com) to look for such things.
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Enter your scores here and it does it for you:\n\nhttp://golf.sports.yahoo.com/tracker
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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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it's the score at half time..\nif the score has something written like this: a.e.t (2:0)(1:0)\nthat means after extra time..the first parenthesis are the final score and the second parentheses are the half time score of the extra time..\nand if the score is like this: a.e.t. (0:0) 1:3\nthat means the score was still 0:0 after extra time and the 1:3 is the score for the penalty shootout..\nthis is all u need to know about scoreline i think..
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The full rules of tennis are administered by the International Tennis Federation and can be found on the ITF Website. \nhttp://www.itftennis.com/abouttheitf/\n A basic guide is currently available on the BBC website. \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/rules_and_equipment/4222290.stm
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Since August 2006, the new scoring system is adopted.\nA point shall be added to a player's score whenever he wins a rally.\nA match consists of the best of three games; a game is won by the first player to score 21 points, except if the score reaches 20 points each; in this case, play shall continue until one player either achieves a two point lead (such as 24-22), or his score reaches 30 (the score shall not extend beyond 30: 30-29 is a winning score).\n\nIn singles, the server shall stand in his right service court when his score is even, and in his left service court when his score is odd; his opponent shall stand in the diagonally opposite service court.\n\nIn doubles, the players shall remember their service positions from the previous rally; the receivers shall remain in the same service courts. When a receiving pair wins a point and thereby regains the service, they shall not change their service court positions. If their new score is even, then the player in the right service court shall serve; if their new score is odd, then the player in the left service court shall serve. Thereafter, if they continue to win points, the server shall alternate between the service courts, so that he serves to each receiver in turn.\nEach team no longer has second server.  Now the score determines which side the server should be (right or left).\nGood luck and have fun.