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Originally posted by dylanmarsh
... but I don't get how they decide the set scores. Like sometimes its 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 or its 7-6, 3-6, 6-2. This crap has always perplexed me and an explanation would be grand.
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1. Players serve for an entire game, and switch every other game. Game scoring is "Love", 15, 30, and 40, then you win the game. If the score is 40-40 it is called "duece". If the score is duece, a player must win by two (in a sense), so they need to win a serve/volley to take it to "advantage [player]", and then win another, before the other player wins a serve/volley and takes it back to duece.
2. A set is won by reaching six games, and you must win by two (sort of). If the score is 6-6, then a tiebraker game is played. The serves in this game goes 1-2-2-2-2-2-and so forth until someone reaches six points, and again you must win by two. That is why you will see a score of 7-6 (10-8) meaning that the winner of that set won the tiebraker 10-8. If it is the fifth set, there are no tiebrakers games, the match continues until a player wins by two games.
3. A match is won by winning 3 sets (males) or 2 sets (females). If a player wins the match in 4 sets, you could potentially see a score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 which would mean that the eventually winner lost the second match. The eventual winner's score in each set is always listed first.
So to sum up, if a player wins in 5 sets, with the third and fifth set going to tiebrakers, you could potentially end up with a score of 6-3, 0-6, 6-7 (15-13), 6-3, 9-7.
Game, set and match.
Ps. "Love" comes from the French for egg "l'ouef", which looks like a zero.