Names for the number 0 in English a formal reading of a team's scoresheet. There is no definitive origin for the tennis score name for 0, "love". It firstly occurred in English, is of comparatively recent origin, and is not used in other languages. The most commonly believed hypothesis is that it is derived from English speakers mis-hearing the French "l'œuf", "the egg", which was the name for a score of zero used in French, because the symbol for a zero used on the scoreboard was an elliptical zero symbol, which visually resembled an egg. There is tangential support for this in the use of "duck" as
Tennis (1981 video game) comebacks from the brink of defeat" and which give "more methodical players a chance to taste victory against the kings and queens of hand-eye coordination". Covered in "Video" magazine's 1982 Guide to Electronic Games, "Tennis" was characterized by critics as "not terribly complicated" but also as "one of the few very good sports games for the Atari VCS". Tennis (1981 video game) Tennis is a video game for the Atari 2600 developed by Activision co-founder Alan Miller and published by Activision in 1981. "Tennis" offers singles matches for one or two players; one player is colored pink, the other blue.