In tennis when a team has no points, why is it called “love”?
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"'Love' is generally taken as being derived from the French "l"oeuf", the egg, symbolising nothing. The term "love" can also be said to come from the English phrase "neither for love nor for money", indicating nothing."
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When a team scores a certain amount of points without the other team scoring, or answering back to their points.
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I agree with him. When your playing a sport that teams only score 1 or even no goals, you pretty much have it won considering the fact that its like 90 something percent that a team that goals first will win or tie. Although im not saying its not possible because its happened.
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Tennis scoring history\n\n"A 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 their opponent. The half of the court used for service alternates between sides, beginning with the right-hand half, known as the deuce court, and continuing with the left-hand side, known as the ad court.\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.\n\nIf each player has won three points, the score is described as "deuce" rather than "forty-all". From this point on, whenever the score is tied, it is described as "deuce" regardless of how many points have been played. The player who wins the next point after deuce is said to have the advantage. If the player with advantage loses the next point, the score is again deuce, since the score is tied. If the player with the advantage wins the next point, that player has won the game, since the player now leads by two points. When the server is the player with the advantage, the score is stated by him before the next point as "advantage in." When the server's opponent has the advantage, the server states the score as "advantage out." These phrases are sometimes shortened to "ad in" and "ad out."\n\nNote that a score of "thirty-all" is functionally equivalent to "deuce", and "forty-thirty" is equivalent to "advantage". These equivalences are not used in a professional match where the umpire states the score. A score of "thirty-all" means that the players have won exactly two points each, while a score of "deuce" means that the players have won at least three points each."
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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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FAULT is when the server lands the ball beyond the boundary line. And so, he needs to serve again.\n\nwhen, upon serving again, his ball still lands beyond the boundary line, then, he is said to have a DOUBLE FAULT. and so, one point goes to the other player :-)
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You must remember that the Davis Cup has a very rich history, almost as old as Wimbeldon and older than any other tennis event. I'm sure the term 'rubber' has meaning behind it, but I believe it was simply termed so since the tennis balls they played with back then were made of only rubber (no felt).
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"Love", from French "l'ouef" = "the egg", from the shape looking like zero.\nOr, according to the article linked below, "to play for love", i.e. just for fun.
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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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While watching the men's final at the French Open today, I noticed that the French scorekeeper used "zero" in place of "love" when announcing the score. This is interesting because "love" was originally derived from the French "l'oeuf" which means "egg", a reference to the egg-shaped numeral zero. The British then bastardized "l'oeuf" into "love". Apparently, the French no longer use "l'oeuf" or even "amour", the French translation of "love", but just plain old "zero".
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The scoring comes from using a clock to keep score.  The first point the minute hand was moved to 15, then 30, then 45.  45 was shortened to 40.\n\nSee the previous answer for the explaination of Love for Zero.
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First question: they do that because if their opponent gets one more fall then he gets a red card then the other team is short on a player.\n\nSecond question: because if there was a score then someone would have made a goal. So there is NO score!!
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There are singles lines and dbles.  Whichever you're playing determines if it's in or out.  No matter which you're playing though if the ball touches ANY part of the line it's good.  You must be able to see a space between in order to call the ball out.  If you have to question yourself or do not know then the ball is good.  Tennis is based on the honor system and that applies to all who play.
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In the old days before commercialism took over all sports, teams received 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. FIFA believed that not conceding more goals then the other team was worthy of some type of reward, hence 1 point.
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It means it is not a competitive match with league points or progression in the next round of a Cup competition.  All they are playing for is pride!
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If both teams are top or second of their tables they can only meet in the final, presuming they go on to win every match upto the final.\nHowever, if one team is top of their table and the other is second, then they will meet in the second round, and one will be eliminated.
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As it is confusing if there are people on the same team with two names or two different teams with same name players. They also do that to carry family pride.