What is the scoring system for tennis? Where does tennis come from?

1.1 game 1) 1 point for each goal win, and the first player to win 4 points wins 1 game. (The first point is counted as 15, the second score is counted as 30, and the third score is counted as 40, and the fourth point is won directly after winning a set, so it never appears.)

2) When each team scores 3 points, it is a "tie", and after a tie, a net win of 2 points (2 points more than the opponent) is a win of 1 game. (The first to score after a tie is counted as AD, which means leading.) That is, the advantage first, one of the dominant sides after hitting the deuce (deuce), the first to distribute the ball and the first to receive the ball).

2.1 set 1) One side wins 6 games to win 1 set.

2) When both sides win 5 games, one side wins 2 games (2 more games than the other side) wins 1 set.

3.Tiebreaker scoring system.

When the number of games in each set is 6, there are two scoring systems.

1) Long handicap system: One side wins two games to win 1 set.

2) Short Set System (Tie-break): Except for the tiebreaker, unless otherwise stipulated before the match, it should generally be implemented according to the following methods.

a.The first player to score 7 points wins the game and the set (if the score is 6 draws, the team must net 2 points).

b.The first player serves the first point, the opponent serves the first point, and then takes turns serving the two points until the end of the game.

c.The first point is served on the right, the second on the left, and the third on the right.

d.Courts are swapped every 6-point shot and the end of the tiebreaker.

4.Scoring of the short handicap system.

1) On the first ball (0:0), the server A serves 1 point, and the serve is changed after 1 point.

2) The first ball (reported at 1:0 or 0:1, not reported at 15:0 or 0:15), served by B, B serves two points in a row and then changes the serve, first serving from the left area.

3) The first ball (3:0 or 1:2, 2:1, not 40:0 or 15:30, 30:15), A serves, A serves two consecutive balls and then changes the serve, first from the left side.

4) The first ball (reported 3:3 or 2:4, 4:2 or 1:5, 5:1 or 6:0, 0:6) will be exchanged after B serves 1 point, and if the game is not over, B will continue to serve the 7th ball.

5) The score is played to 5:5, 6:6, 7:7, 8:8......, a two-point winning streak is required to determine who wins. However, on the scoresheet, it is uniformly written as 7:6.

6) After the tiebreaker is played, the players of the team will exchange venues.

In our country, tennis matches used to use Arabic numerals to represent the gains and losses of each ball, while all international tennis matches are represented by the English word love and the number respectively, which is quite puzzling.

Why is 0 represented by love (the English word "love")? It turns out that this is based on the pronunciation of the French word "egg" (i'oeuf). Both the French and the Chinese compare the egg to zero.

When tennis was first played in France, an ellipse was drawn to indicate that no points were scored. After tennis was introduced to Britain, the British heard the French use the pronunciation of i'oeuf (Loew) to represent zero, so they looked for words similar to the pronunciation of i'oeuf in the vocabulary of their Chinese dialect, and later love was used to represent zero.

The unit of 15 was once a mystery, and these three numbers were by no means arbitrary. A man named Jean Gosling thought that these three numbers must have been the units of measurement that those who played tennis at that time were familiar with or used, and that they were derived from the astronomical sextant. The sextant is the same as 1 6 circles, with a total of 60 degrees, and every minute and 60 seconds.

At that time, there were 4 points per game in a tennis game, and 4 15 points were one degree, just like 4 15 degrees constituted 1 6 circles, and 15 was used as the base to calculate the gain and loss of each point. As for the change of 45 to 40, it is for the sake of the simplicity of the pronunciation. In the early days of tennis, there were four games per set, and each game had four points, but in the early 17th century, it was changed to six games per set, and this rule has not changed to this day.

Since tennis is an ancient sport, its rules were formed in England in the late 19th century, when the common European method of counting was the decimal system.

Because the most primitive game of tennis originated in the imperial court, it is understandable that the scoring method was based on local materials. Take a dialable clock to score, and turn the clock a quarter for each point, which is 15 minutes (aquarter, a quarter), and in the same way, if you score two points, you will turn the clock to 30 minutes, of course, everything is based on convenience. That's where 15 points and 30 points come from.

As for 40 points, it's weirder, it's not a multiple of 15. This is because in English, 15 points are used"fifteen", which is a two-syllable, and 30 minutes are pronounced"thirty", also a double syllable.