Random enquiry - is Tennis the only one that does this? You get to advantage, lose the next point and you go back to deuce. And this keeps going backwards and forwards, potentially for ever, until someone wins two in a row from deuce to win a game. It actually messes with the only representation of the game, as things like flash score boxes tend to highlight the player who has won the last point, which works OK for 15, 30, 40, the first deuce and advantage, but at that point it will highlight the player whose score has changed, i.e. the one who was ad up but now isn't, and that is not the player who has won the rally!
Other racquet sports have their equivalents of deuce, all of them in fact require a player to be two points clear to win a game (and equally the game can theoretically go on for ever) but the score keeps on accumulating so you know how long it has taken and how many points each player has won to still be even steven. And there are some sports that count down but those tend to only count downwards.
The closest I can come up with is darts where it's first to zero to win a leg, but the legs and sets count upwards. However that also has internal consistency that Tennis lacks as it only counts down and never up inside the leg, and only counts up and never down for the legs in total. I'm struggling to think of any other which counts up and down within the same unit of it's scoring system. Anyone?
Other racquet sports have their equivalents of deuce, all of them in fact require a player to be two points clear to win a game (and equally the game can theoretically go on for ever) but the score keeps on accumulating so you know how long it has taken and how many points each player has won to still be even steven. And there are some sports that count down but those tend to only count downwards.
The closest I can come up with is darts where it's first to zero to win a leg, but the legs and sets count upwards. However that also has internal consistency that Tennis lacks as it only counts down and never up inside the leg, and only counts up and never down for the legs in total. I'm struggling to think of any other which counts up and down within the same unit of it's scoring system. Anyone?
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