Tennis for Beginners

Knowing the tennis scoring system rules and guidelines is the key to maximising your tennis experiences when watching a tennis match or a tennis tournament. Spectators unfamiliar with the game of tennis are typically fascinated and entertained by the competitive nature of the sport. Without a doubt, tennis is a high-spirited inspiring sport to watch, but many of these spectators eventually find themselves disconnected at various stages of the competition due to the lack of tennis scoring knowledge.

Tennis, like any sport, has its own lingo, and tennis uses perhaps the most well-known sports term — love, which means zero. It takes four points to win a game. It takes 6 games to win a set. It takes either 2 or 3 sets to win a match (depending on what has been pre-arranged).

The following is tennis scoring “lingo”:

No point – “Love”

First point – “15”

Second point – “30”

Third point – “40”

Fourth point – “Game”

The server’s score is always called first. If the score is 40 – 30 the server needs one more point to win the game. But if the receiver wins the next point, the score is now called “deuce”. Each player now needs to win 2 more points to win. If the server wins the next point the score is “advantage server”, or “ad in”. If the receiver wins the next point the score is “advantage receiver”, or “ad out”. If the player with “advantage” wins the next point they win the game. If the player without “advantage” wins the next point, the score reverts to “deuce”. The score can go back and forth from “advantage” to “deuce” until one player wins 2 points in a row.

Find out more here or watch this video here to learn more about the rules of tennis.

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