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TENNIS SCORING Scoring a Tennis Match | |
| Scoring a Tennis Match |
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| Jan 06, 2009 at 07:02 AM | |||
Scoring the matchMost matches consist of an odd number of sets, the match winner being the player who wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Men's singles and doubles matches may consist of five sets (the winner being the first to win three sets) while most women's and mixed doubles matches are three sets (the winner being the first to win two sets). While the alternation of service between games continues throughout the match without regard to sets, the ends are changed after each odd game within a set (including the last game). If, for example, the second set of a match ends with the score at 6-3, 1-6, the ends are changed as the last game played was the 7th (odd) game of the set and in spite of it being the 16th (even) game of the match. Notably in such situations where a set ends with an odd game, back to back games see change of ends i.e. ends are changed before and after the first game of the following set. A tie-breaker game is treated as a single game for the purposes of this alternation. Since tie-breakers always result in a score of 7-6, there is always a court change after the tie-breaker. The score of a complete match may be given simply by sets won, or with the scores of each set given separately. In either case, the match winner's score is stated first. In the former, shorter form, a match might be listed as 3-1 (i.e. three sets to one). In the latter form, this same match might be further described as "7-5 6-7 (4) 6-4 7-6 (6)". This match was won three sets to one, with the match loser winning the second set on a tie-breaker. The numbers in parentheses, normally included in printed scorelines but omitted when spoken, indicate the duration of the tiebreaker following a given set, and specify the number of points that the loser of the tiebreaker won. Here, the match winner lost the second-set tiebreaker 7-4, and won the fourth-set tiebreaker 8-6.
Total points scoredBecause tennis is scored set by set and game by game, a player may lose a match despite winning the majority of points and/or games played. Consider a player who wins six games in each of two sets, all by a score of game-30. The winner has scored 4x12 = 48 points and the loser 2x12 = 24. Suppose also that the loser wins four games in each set, all by a score of game-love. The loser has scored 4x8 = 32 points and the winner zero in those games. The final score is a win by 6-4, 6-4; total points 48-56. It is also possible to win more games, but lose the match, e.g. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4.
Announcing the scoreIf there is no umpire to announce the score of a match, there is a specific protocol for stating the score. During a game, the server has the responsibility to announce the game score before he serves. He does this by announcing his score first. If, for example, the server loses the first three points of his service game, he will serve from the advantage court. (In any game, including tiebreak games, a serving player always serves to the deuce court when the number of points played out so far in that game is an even number, and to the advantage court when it is an odd number.) The server would say, "Love, forty." This convention is used consistently. After a set is complete, the server, before serving for the first game of the next set, announces the set scores so far completed in the match, stating his scores first. If he has won the first two sets and is beginning the third, he would say, "Two, love, new set." If he had lost the first two sets, he would say, "Love, two, new set." Finally, after the completion of the match, either player, when asked the score, announces his scores first. For example, if a player says the score of his match was 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, he won the first set but lost the next two to lose the match.
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