Tennis Scoring

[lankeela]

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

[Eve]

Explained here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/rules_and_equipment/4223560.stm

[lankeela]

Sure I could have looked it up but my point is why don't the tv presenters tell us?

[thingers]

It is a game and you have to go through love or love all and then juice to win the game. Then it gets complicated as you then have to win the set and then the match.
Hope that makes it clear for you lankeela lol

[lankeela]

All I ask is that they say 'now Fred Perry needs to win 14 points to take the game' or however many - as for the juice, I think you are taking it!

[Tilly2]

The word is 'deuce', thingers.

[Jackdaw33]

I think thingers knows that, Tilly.

[thingers]

Yes I do know that as I do play cards tilly. I said juice fer effect

[thingers]

Thank you Mr daw lol

[Tilly2]

I was trying to be helpful.

[Mamyalynne]

Fred Perry's playing? Well I never ;-)

[lankeela]

Another question - why don't they electrify the seats so the last one who calls out before a point gets a shock?

[lankeela]

Ok so now what is a juice box? Never heard that one before.

[EDDIE51]

Anyone who has an interest in tennis knows the scoring system , it would be very annoying for a 'fan' if the commentator kept on stating the obvious.

[lankeela]

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.

[ToraToraTora]

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.

[ichkeria]

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