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Tennis Scoring
I am sure like me there must be thousands who only ever watch big finals in tennis, yet they never tell you how the scoring works - playing a tie break now and its 6 - 1 - what does that mean and how many do they need to win? Why do they assume everyone kn?ows
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Maybe in 'routine' matches but for big finals I am sure there are many who don't know and it wouldn't take much just to say how many they need without going into every detail. They do it in darts, I am sure regular players know but they tell you how many they have left to score and I am sure in other sports/hobbies things get explained. I am into dog shows and on the Crufts programme they will give a quick explanation of what the judge is doing at certain points if it is not obvious to a novice onlooker.
the tie break in it's current form was introduced 37 years ago, I cannot believe there are people who are not familiar with it. As eddie says if the commentators kept on explaining the rules we'd all be putting our daisies through the roger. When the set score is 6-6 in any set but the last then they play up to at least 7 till someone wins by 2.
For years after the tie break was introduced, the BBC commentators DID plain it. Every flipping time. And for some reason Dan Maskell always left the entire tie break commentary to his colleague John Barrett, as if the whole new fanglwd nonsense was too much for his old bones.
It's really not that difficult to suss out is it!? Arguably simpler than the scoring system for the 'normal' games
It's really not that difficult to suss out is it!? Arguably simpler than the scoring system for the 'normal' games