Names for the number 0 in English the score was not placed upon a scoreboard, and there is scant evidence that the French ever used "l'oeuf" as the name for a zero score in the first place, that name being as anecdotal as the hypothesis that "love" is then derived from it. (Jacob Bernoulli, for example, in his "Letter to a Friend", used "à but" to describe the initial zero–zero score in court tennis, which in English is "love-all".) Some alternative hypotheses have similar problems. For example: The assertion that "love" comes from the Scots word "luff", meaning "nothing", falls at the first hurdle, because there is
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.