When you play different sports, you’ll hear all kinds of special words and phrases that help explain how the game works. Like in rugby, they talk about things like scrum and penalty corner. In baseball, they talk about home runs, and in soccer, they talk about free kicks.

But when it comes to keeping score, it’s usually pretty simple. You just add up the points or goals in order.

But tennis is a bit different. It has a scoring system that can seem strange and confusing at first. Even people watching tennis matches in person can sometimes get puzzled by it. So, how does it work?

In this post, we’ll learn all about how tennis scoring works, where it came from, and why it’s unique. If you’re interested in trying your hand at tennis betting, you can check out the 1xbet tennis betting site in India for exciting opportunities.

What is the Tennis Scoring System?

In tennis, players earn points, games, and sets to win a match.

To win a game, you need to get at least four points. To win a set, you need to win at least six games. And to win the match, you usually need to win two or three sets, depending on the tournament rules.

Before Play Commences

At the beginning of a match, the players flip a coin. The winner of the toss gets to decide if they want to serve first or let their opponent serve first. They can also choose which side of the court they want to start on. If they pick the side, the decision of serving or receiving is left to the player who lost the coin toss. The winner can also opt to let their opponent make the choice. However, the player who lost the toss cannot defer the decision again. After this, the players have a brief warm-up before the umpire signals the start of the competitive match.

Tennis scoring terms and what they mean

In tennis, scoring is a bit different from other sports. Instead of just counting points or runs, the first three points are called 15, 30, and 40.

Now, why is it like that? Well, there are a few different ideas about where this scoring system came from:

Some people say that back in the old days, they used to keep score using clock faces. They would move the hands to 15, 30, and 45 minutes to track the score. Then, they changed it to 40 to make room for something called “advantage.” But this theory might just be a story because clocks didn’t have minute hands until much later.

Another idea is that the scoring comes from a French game called “jeu de paume.” In that game, players would move up 15 feet for each point they scored, up to 45 feet. The court was 90 feet long. Eventually, jeu de paume evolved into tennis.

So, there isn’t one clear answer, but these are some of the reasons people think tennis scoring is the way it is!

Tennis score after a deuce

When both players reach 40 points in tennis, it’s not called 40-all; instead, it’s called deuce. At deuce, a player needs to win two points in a row to win the game. The first point won after deuce is called “advantage.” If the player with advantage wins the next point, they win the game. But if they lose the point, the score goes back to deuce.

When the server has the advantage, it’s called “advantage in,” and when the receiver has the advantage, it’s called “advantage out.”

What is a walkover in tennis?

In tennis, a walkover happens when a player moves to the next round of a tournament without playing because their opponent withdraws. This can occur if the opponent is injured, sick, or disqualified from the event. Technically, the term “walkover” should only be used if a player decides before the match not to play, but sometimes it’s also used if a player quits during the match. When a player quits during a match, it’s usually called a “retirement.

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But Apple’s new iPhones will also see an uptick in availability among domestic and international carriers.

Beginning next week, Apple’s flagship iPhone 5s and the lower-cost iPhone 5c will be available on dozens of small, regional carriers in the U.S.

Correspondingly, prepaid carrier Cricket says it will also begin carrying the new iPhones next Friday, October 25th.

Cricket is yet to announce details related to pricing and availability, CNET confirms.

It’s unclear how much the phones will cost through Cricket, which offers service to customers without contracts. Prepaid customers typically pay full price for a device unless the carrier offers some sort of promotion. The iPhone iPhone 5S starts at $649 without a contact, while the 5C starts at $549.

Cricket Communications is owned by Leap Wireless, which is being acquired by AT&T.

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Last June, Cricket became the first prepaid wireless carrier in the U.S. to carry the iPhone. And beginning September 28th, Apple’s iPhone 5 will join the pre-paid party at Cricket.

For now, Cricket will only say that the new iPhone will launch in “select Cricket markets” at the end of this month. Correspondingly, no pricing information has been made available yet.

But it is believed that the new iPhone could prove a big hit with a large segment of Cricket’s 6.2 million subscribers.

“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the hardware and software engineering that has gone into this product is unlike we’ve ever undertaken before,” Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said yesterday. “It’s designed and built to an exacting level of standard unlike anything we, or anyone in our industry, have made before.”

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Virgin Mobile USA announced today it will offer the iPhone to its prepaid customers beginning Friday, June 29.

Virgin Mobile will offer Apple’s hugely popular iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S with its Beyond Talk unlimited data and messaging plans as low as $30 per-month on the Sprint Nationwide Network.

This release comes just one week after Cricket becomes the first U.S. carrier to offer a prepaid option for the new iPhone.

iPhone will be available without a contract and with no fees for activation or roaming. New and existing customers can purchase iPhone online, RadioShack, Best Buy and select local retailers.

“This month marks Virgin Mobile USA’s tenth birthday,” says Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group. “And what better way to thank our fans for ten years of loyalty than by giving them exactly what they want: the perfect plan for the perfect phone. That is the essence of ‘A Higher Calling.’”

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That’s the biggest rumor in mobile today, as MarketWatch reports that Sprint will introduce the iPhone to its expanding Virgin Mobile network possibly as soon as July 1st.

This would make the iPhone a prepaid offering through Virgin Mobile just days after Cricket takes the iPhone into prepaid mobile territory for the first time in the United States on June 22nd.

“By offering the iPhone,” writes MarketWatch reporter Thomas Gryta, “Sprint may help satisfy its commitment to Apple to buy $15.5 billion of the phones over four years.”

In October, Sprint started selling the new iPhone on its network for the first time. Since then, Sprint has sold well over three million units, making it a hugely successful offering on the nation’s third largest mobile network.

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According to published reports this afternoon, Sprint subsidiary Boost Mobile will also offer a prepaid iPhone this September. Analogous to the Cricket option, Boost Mobile will allegedly carry the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.

The information comes from a “trusted source” speaking with TechnoBuffalo.

It remains uncertain if the Sprint-powered MVNO will offer its popular $50 Month Unlimited plan with Shrinkage, which includes unlimited talk, text and web, which also rewards customers who pay their bill on time by reducing their monthly bill by $5 down to as low as $35 per month.

“This is definitely a new era for prepaid as the introduction of the iPhone will likely result in more high-end Android devices being available off-contract,” writes the article’s author Mark Hearn. “It looks like the postpaid market may have some competition.”

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All told, the roll-out will cover approximately 1,600 Target stores across the United States.

Cricket said Friday that products will become available this Sunday, April 22, and will “further enable Cricket to bring its industry-leading value proposition to an expanded nationwide audience.”

The introduction into Target is another step in Cricket’s major retail expansion, begun in 2011, that will result in Cricket products and services being available to more consumers across the country.

With the Muve Music Smartphone rate plan, Target shoppers are told they can enjoy unlimited song downloads, ringtones, and ringback tones, as well as nationwide calling; unlimited text, picture, video messaging and 3G mobile data; mobile video; data back-up, and 411 assistance all for $55 per month.

Do you think the new partnership with Target will provide a big boost to Cricket?

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