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b1gb3n Forums Junkie I Supported Toymods Location: south Melbourne/KL Registered: June 2004	Re: Aust Open ... Mon, 31 January 2005 06:07 ok somebody told me the history of the scoring system. here is what my friend told me Quote: Why is the scoring of a tennis game (15-30-40) so unusual? When we haven't been working on the magazine, we at mental_floss have had a few moments to watch the action at Wimbledon. A reader named Maria recently wrote in asking about the unusual scoring system, so we did a bit of research. It turns out that the history is a bit fuzzy, and here's why. Two of the more popular theories claim that the numbers were based on a 15-30-45-60 sequence. One theory based the scoring on clock movements, the other on the French numbering system (which runs to 60 before repeating). While either of these concepts could be true, what confuses us is the claim that the number 45 was later "shortened" to 40. It just didn't make sense to us that one would "shorten" a number for no apparent reason. The explanation that makes the most sense to us, and the one that we'll present here, is as follows. In medieval France, a single game of tennis was won by winning four rallies. The 15-30-45-60 scoring system would have been used except for the fact that each game had to be won by two scores. If the game were tied at 45-45, a score by one player had to be indicated somehow, so they changed the third score to 40. This way, what's now known in the game as an "advantage" could be scored as 50 points. Here's how it worked: Suppose a game were tied 40-40, known commonly as a "deuce" (since two consecutive scores are then required to win the game). Player A scores, making it 50-40. If player A scores again, the game is won (by the score of 60-40). If Player B evens the game up, however, the score of 50-50 can be brought back down to 40-40 and the "deuce" starts over again. This continues until the game is won. Somewhere along the line of tennis history, the use of the number "50" as a score lost popularity. The term "advantage" came into vogue, indicating which player was a score up in the game. But apparently the "40" score stayed on as a by-product of the former scoring system. So why don't they just score tennis 1-2-3-4 like most other games? Probably because those numbers are used to score sets and matches, and if the same digits were used in regular games, it would be terribly easy to get confused. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Aust Open ...	Les	Mon, 17 January 2005 12:48
	Re: Aust Open ...	Simon	Mon, 17 January 2005 13:52
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Mon, 17 January 2005 14:50
	Re: Aust Open ...	Dust	Mon, 17 January 2005 16:13
	Re: Aust Open ...	jackel	Mon, 17 January 2005 19:25
	Re: Aust Open ...	crazedrt104	Tue, 18 January 2005 04:15
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Tue, 18 January 2005 04:34
	Re: Aust Open ...	Squid	Tue, 18 January 2005 04:25
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Tue, 18 January 2005 11:44
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Tue, 18 January 2005 11:46
	Re: Aust Open ...	davedrifts	Tue, 18 January 2005 06:20
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Tue, 18 January 2005 12:10
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Tue, 18 January 2005 12:37
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Wed, 19 January 2005 12:29
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Wed, 19 January 2005 18:43
	Re: Aust Open ...	ae86slaver	Mon, 24 January 2005 00:11
	Re: Aust Open ...	Mippy	Thu, 20 January 2005 12:08
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Thu, 20 January 2005 12:16
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Thu, 20 January 2005 15:47
	Re: Aust Open ...	clubagreenie	Thu, 20 January 2005 12:21
	Re: Aust Open ...	THE WITZL	Thu, 20 January 2005 12:22
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Thu, 20 January 2005 12:49
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Thu, 20 January 2005 22:44
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Fri, 21 January 2005 03:53
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Fri, 21 January 2005 04:24
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Fri, 21 January 2005 04:52
	Re: Aust Open ...	cheese_cracka	Fri, 21 January 2005 12:12
	Re: Aust Open ...	Kimber	Sat, 22 January 2005 07:02
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Sat, 22 January 2005 07:56
	Re: Aust Open ...	Nolan	Sat, 22 January 2005 11:00
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Sun, 23 January 2005 17:12
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Sun, 23 January 2005 19:04
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Mon, 24 January 2005 15:44
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Tue, 25 January 2005 10:50
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Tue, 25 January 2005 12:52
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Tue, 25 January 2005 16:03
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Thu, 27 January 2005 14:23
	Re: Aust Open ...	Squid	Thu, 27 January 2005 22:01
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Fri, 28 January 2005 08:04
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Thu, 27 January 2005 15:11
	Re: Aust Open ...	LEVIN GTV	Fri, 28 January 2005 08:22
	Re: Aust Open ...	Les	Fri, 28 January 2005 08:45
	Re: Aust Open ...	20valve69corona	Fri, 28 January 2005 12:24
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Sat, 29 January 2005 07:14
	Re: Aust Open ...	draven	Fri, 28 January 2005 08:26
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Fri, 28 January 2005 12:28
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Sat, 29 January 2005 19:23
	Re: Aust Open ...	ra23mad	Sun, 30 January 2005 11:44
	Re: Aust Open ...	dimmy77_03	Sun, 30 January 2005 11:51
	Re: Aust Open ...	Simon	Sun, 30 January 2005 12:07
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Sun, 30 January 2005 14:21
	Re: Aust Open ...	SIMDOG	Sun, 30 January 2005 14:52
	Re: Aust Open ...	BlackMR2	Sun, 30 January 2005 15:29
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Sun, 30 January 2005 15:54
	Re: Aust Open ...	b1gb3n	Mon, 31 January 2005 06:07

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