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Since they refuse to adapt a real point scoring system, I say they eliminate the confusion (when my son asks me how many points Venus has, I have to go into this long, only-serious-fans-allowed lecture about how they score the friggin thing) by adapting totally meaningless names for the score levels.
Instead of Love-15-30-40-game, we'll call them Dingy-Magma-Toast-Buzzsaw-Cream Puff. Or something. That way when my son asks, "What's the score?" I can say fun things like "Cream Puff-Dingy".
Real tennis
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tennis/
[UnaBubba, Apr 17 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
History
http://www.real-tennis.nl/
[UnaBubba, Apr 17 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
You only think Lawn Tennis is complicated
http://www.real-tennis.com/
Take a read through the rules of Real Tennis. [UnaBubba, Apr 17 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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"Toast" should be zero, that way we could say something like "Seles was toast." |
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Tennis is scored to a very old system usually, but not always. It derived from real tennis (or Royal Tennis, if you will). It's a rather older game, using walls and inwards sloping roof surfaces as part of the allowable playing surface. See [link] |
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I presume you've never seen an "American" tournament, where games are scored similarly to table tennis? First to 21 and 2 ahead. 3 games to a match. |
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Croissant for Cream Puff-Dingy. How do we cope with Deuce and tiebreakers? Btw, "Love" is from the French L'ouef for egg (zero). |
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Croissant>Fishbone would be my pick for win without points against |
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But keep the win-by-2 business. I've always liked that aspect of tennis. It should be used in other sports. |
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(gt! long temps, aucun voyez.) |
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How about 'croissant' instead of 'advantage'. |
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(I couldn't stay away forever, waugsqueke... could I?) |
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They play tennis in India too, don't they Abhi? |
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you just try getting out, swami my lad <g> |
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[ravenswood] I love when they do that! |
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At work the other day, out of idle curiosity (or complete boredom perhaps) I read the introduction to a textbook about commodities trading that started out with an analogy saying that commodities trading *seems* complicated but is actually as simple and strightfowrd as greeting someone on the street before launching into the most utterly abstruse, arcane and downright impenetrable screed I can recall reading. |
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I liked extreme and unintentional irony. |
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<lee evans> Fifteen? Sod off!One!! </lee evans> |
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