tennis
By gohsh3
@gohsh3 (28)
Malaysia
November 20, 2006 9:23am CST
why tennis scoring system in the points of 15 luv, 30 luv, 40 luv, not 45 luv before game point? anyway, it is luv or love, why? please enlighten.
4 responses
@mvsrao (4365)
• India
20 Nov 06
As 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."
The definitive origin of the use of
"love" for zero is not known but probably
is derived from a popular saying about
amateur sports . It is possible that the
use of "love" for zero is from the French
word for an egg (l‘oeuf because an egg
looks like the number zero. "Love" as
"zero" is also said to possibly derive
from "l'heure" or "the hour" in French.
for more details pls see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_score
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@pookie92 (1714)
• United States
20 Nov 06
That is a million dollar question. I've played tennis for years, love it, don't understand the scoring........ I guess we just learn how to do it, and don't ask questions. It's hard to say why they used this crazy scoring system, but that is how it's done, for a long time now, thank God they don't score basketball this way.....
