Quote (Honestly @ Aug 28 2010 05:25pm)
how does the scoring in tennis work? what wins? timed?
Wow do you really not know? Not mad or anything, just surprising
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You start at 0-0, and when you make 1 point, it's 15-0, then 30-0, 40-0, and then after 1 more point you have a 'game'.
A 'set' goes up to 6 games normally, but there has to be a difference by 2 so it can be 7-5.
A tennis match is about 3 won sets, so 5 is the maximum.
That's about the basic scoring system of tennis, but there are some more complicated rules such as the tie-break but that's a little too much to explain for now
By the way, there is no time limit to a tennis match, and in the last set a 'tie-break' does not exist so the score in 'games' is infinite, so at the last Wimbledon tournament (most important tournament in tennis) the score was like 86-84 in the last set after 10+ hours of playing.
This post was edited by SeaBas on Aug 28 2010 11:35am