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Axiom312
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Can you imagine winning and being told you have a bunch more games to go if you want to win wimbledon?
Can you imagine winning and being told you have a bunch more games to go if you want to win wimbledon?
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10 hours and counting, that is insane. A shame that whichever one wins is probably going to be physically wrecked and steamrolled in the next round.
That's assuming this match ends before the winner's next match is scheduled to take place.
If one of them manages to win tomorrow, he will not have to play his 3rd round match right away - it will be delayed until Friday.
Not at this exact minute, but they'll be playing again tomorrow, making it the third day that the match has been played. I would not be surprised if one of them ends up with an injury, especially if they still can't break the deadlock within an hour of play resuming.
throw a flail and an axe, let'em go at it
I always get these mixed up, but in tennis a single match is composed of several sets, each of which is composed of multiple games, right? A game being one round of love-15-30-40-win points.
why can't it just be 1 point every time you score
what's up with loves and 15s and just use a regular score system tennis
Yes. And you didn't ask, but since it was really confusing to me, to win a set, you have to win six games before the other guy wins five. If he wins five, you have to get to seven first. But if it's the last set of an important match (like at Wimbledon), you have to win by 2, which is how this set got to 59-59 so far.
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I can't imagine that either of them will have trouble falling asleep tonight.
A clock face was used to keep score in medieval France, with each point increasing the score by 15 minutes. 15, 30, and 45 with the game being won when a player reached 60 minutes. However, to decrease lucky wins the deuce rule was created. To keep the score on a clock face, the 45 was changed to 40, and if both players have 40, the first player to score receives ten minutes and that moves the clock to 50. If the player scores a second time before the opponent is able to score, they are awarded another ten minutes and the clock moves to 60 and winning the game. Iif a player fails to score twice in a row, then the clock would move back to 40 to creating another deuce.
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Yes this.
And I can't claim to know much about soccer at all but I can appreciate the athletic prowess such a game entails.
Rooting for Isner (woot).
To say nothing of the demands of tennis. :-p
what
Yeah Tennis literally goes game->set->match.
And yeah, the any set but the fifth (third for women) will go to a Tiebreaker at 6-6. Tiebreaker is first to 7 I think, and you don't have to win by 2.
It's pretty easy to remember once you're used to it.
Personally I had more trouble remembering the hows and whens of changing positions when playing doubles.
oh my god this makes so much sense now thank you
this is like the most substantial thing i have learned in a while
You still have to wear white, and women must wear skirts.
Useless trivia to the rescue!
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You still have to win a tiebreaker by 2 points. Otherwise the person who served first would have a huge advantage.
Yeah , Cobalt is correct about the tiebreaker.
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Whooops yeah
fucking look at my big ole serve just try to beat it Isner
@captaink, I think the US Open uses tiebreaks in the final set. Not sure about the other two Grand Slams.
oh man now i don't know who to believe
the clock theory
or the khoo theorem
So the Australian Open, French, Wimbledon and the US Open.
Satans..... hints.....
There's no way they can't, they'll be dead when they play again
However I'm pulling hard for the one who wins this match