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24/03/2009 15:49:37
 
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>>>>Which brings the question of why the need to repeat the value, a zero-one tie is kind of impossible, right?
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>>>Good question. This is why in tennis the score is "15 All". Maybe they should adapt it to other sports :)
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>>Although, watching the Wimbledon tournament, I've heard them say "15 each". And considering the odd scoring used in Tennis, I doubt anybody wants to use tennis as a role model. Why doesn't tennis just count 0, 1, 2, 3 like normal humans instead of love, 15, 30, 40? There's probably a historical story to it, but there is also such a thing as evolution.
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>I have never head the term "15 each" in tennis. Are you sure? And I don't know the reason for the count by 15 or 10. Maybe it is tennis' "binary" system :)

I should qualify that. I've heard it from the commentators, but not from anyone official. On the other hand, I've also heard what some of the players had for breakfast, so maybe I shouldn't put too much faith in them.
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