The Origin of Tennis' Scoring System
Tennis scoring is stupid.
15, 30, 40, deuce, etc. etc. etc. I know I can easily find out how this system actually originated with a quick Google search, but I thought it might be funny if we all tried to come up with a bunch of absurd stories about how this dumbass convention came to be. Anybody care to give it a shot?
If you’d rather pass and just call me a jerk that’s cool too.
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jerk
haha.
Yeah, I got nuthin.
The amount of feet the ball originally traveled to be hit. Then they got tired and just started saying “deuce.” It’s all very confusing to my mom, who used to come to my matches. She would clap whenever a point was made regardless of who made it. I’d have to scowl at her through the chain link fence and hiss “MOM….stop it….” because she’d be cheering for my opponent.