The game of tennis traces its roots back to medieval France, and although history cannot exactly pinpoint the origin of tennis' scoring system, the modern version of tennis scoring was finalized in ...
Love? Deuce? Advantage? What does it all mean? Tennis has long had the most unique way of keeping score, and the origins of the sport's scoring system is actually fairly ambiguous. So if you're ...
Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know. All sports have their own vocabularies, the ...
It would be great if more people paid attention to tennis, but one big barrier to entry is the sport's peculiar scoring system. So, to simplify things, Wilson had Venus Williams and Madison Keys try ...
Love? Deuce? Advantage? What does it all mean? Tennis has long had the most unique way of keeping score, and the origins of the sport's scoring system are actually fairly ambiguous. So if you're ...