• wander1236
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    12 hours ago

    Isn’t a point in tennis what you get by winning 4 volleys in a round?

    • veroxii
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      2112 hours ago

      That’s a game.

      A point is a single rally. Then winning 4 points (gotta win by 2 though) wins you the game. First to 6 games (but also by 2) wins you the set. And then the match is usually best of 3 or 5 sets.

        • @[email protected]
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          2110 hours ago

          I think you say that because you don’t understand the actual point structure.

          So first point is actually 15. But some people like to just say 5 instead. Now if you both have a point, then you would say 15 all or 5 all. After that, the next point is 30. If you’re tied it’s 30 all. Now the next point is, you got it, 40. If you’re tied, you would obviously say, duece. Now if you score a point, after having 3 points, which is called 40, and you would have more than 2 points than your opponent, then you have won the game, which is the name of a set of points and does not mean you won the whole game. But if you would have 1 more point than your opponent after scoring a point after your 3rd point, then instead of getting a game, you get advantage. You need to score 1 more point to win the game, which is just a set of points and not the whole game. If you have advantage, and your opponent scores a point then you lose your advantage, and it’s right back to duece, which is what you say when both players have 40, which is actually 3 points.

          Easy right?

      • @[email protected]
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        210 hours ago

        It is honestly a difficult game to get into. But of a steel learning curve, and the point system doesn’t help. Very fun game and ive seen there’s a huge community of people that play it, which is great for networking