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badminton scoring system
Anyone For Tennis ?
Q 1. Can anyone explain the scoring system in a game ?
eg
15 - love, meaning 1 , zero
30 40 , meaning 2 , 3
Deuce meaning equality.
How did this quaint system of scoring happen ?
Q2. Why does the server get 'two bites at the cherry' ?
This doesn't happen in table tennis or badminton.
Tennis is about consistency. You always have to win by at least 2 points. To win a game, it's going to be by at least 2 points. That's the reason behind deuce. If the score is 40-40, then the winner would have to score the next 2 consecutive points.
I would imagine the double fault when serving works along the same principles - you have to be consistently bad at serving to deserve to lose the point. Also, the game would be a lot slower if it weren't for the 2 chances at serving - the first serve is the strategic weapon, the second serve is most of the time used to just get the ball in as best as you can. Without having 2 serves, people would most likely to be too cautious with their serves, and this removes some of the advantage from the server and makes the game a whole lot slower/duller.
The scoring system is based on the face of a clock, divided up into quarter hours (ie: 15 minutes). This is assumed to be because the score was kept and displayed on 2 clock faces, one for each opponent. When one person scores a point, the hand on his clock moves to the next quarter. Hence the scoring goes 0-15-30-45. The 45 minute mark was then abbreviated to 40, just because it's less of a mouthful to say, so now scoring is 0-15-30-40.
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