Tennis a new point. A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving. A game is won by the first player to have won at least four points in total and at least two points more than the opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner peculiar to tennis: scores from zero to three points are described as ""love"", ""15"", ""30"", and ""40"", respectively. If at least three points have been scored by each player, making the player's scores equal at 40 apiece, the score is not called out as "40-40", but
Names for the number 0 in English the name for a score of zero by a batsman in cricket, which name derives from the full name "the duck's egg" for that score. The following cricketer's rhyme illustrates this: A name related to the "duck egg" in cricket is the "goose egg" in baseball, a name whose origin is a description in "The New York Times" of 1886 where the journalist states that "the New York players presented the Boston men with nine unpalatable goose eggs", i.e. nine scores of zero. However, the "l'oeuf" hypothesis has several problems, not the least of which is that in court tennis