Wimbledon! Options

[me1issaaaa]

Kayso...... I know absolutely nothing about tennis. All I know is there are bright green balls that always seem to catch my eye, rackets, and last time I played when I was 9, I smacked the ball into a car.

Nonetheless, my boyfriend Drew plays Varsity tennis for his school, and my other friend Drew is pretty much the biggest tennis fanatic I've met. They're both trying to get me to watch it, and so I watched a bit of the game today. I'm very intrigued. I'm pretty clueless about what's going on and how many points each serve is worth, but it's very entertaining.

Anyway... is anyone else watching the game?

[Teesa]

*sigh* I love watching tennis, but I am occupied with watching the NBA finals and whatnot. I still don't know all the rules, but this might help you learn a but more about the sport =]

A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. A set consists of a number of games, which in turn consist of points.

Matches consist of an odd number of multiple sets, the match winner being the player that wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Some matches may consist of five sets (the winner being the first to win three sets), while most matches are three sets (the winner being the first to win two sets).

A set consists of a sequence of games played with service alternating between games, ending when the count of games won meets certain criteria. Typically, when a player wins a set when he wins at least six games and at least two games more than their opponent.

A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than their opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner particular to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" (or "zero"), "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty".

here is the useful article (in case you were bored):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis#Scoring