Australian Open
Our events Defending Champions Barbora Krejčíková and Rajeev Ram
Draw 32 pairs and 7 wildcards
Format Best of 3 sets
Tennis Scoring System
Tennis scores were shown in the middle ages on two clock faces which went from 0 to 60.
On each score the pointer moved round a quarter from 0 to 15, 30, 45 and a win on 60.
Somewhere the forty-five got truncated to forty when the clock faces dropped out of use.
Tennis Terminology
Love
A term used in tennis instead of the word ‘nil’ or ‘zero’.
It is used to describe a lack of score in either points, games or sets.
For example, a game score of 30-0 is given as ’30 love’ and a set score of 6-0 is given as ‘six love’.
Straight Sets
The name given to a win in a tennis match without losing a set.
Grand Slams in Tennis
They are not Grand Slams because they have met a specific set of qualifications, but because they were established as such long before tennis was a professional sport or a global one.
Essentially, they were the national championships of the four nations that had the greatest impact on tennis in its formative years.
How many sets in French Open?
The majority of tennis doubles matches are played in a best-of-three sets format, with a 10-point tiebreak in lieu of a third set.
In the Australian Open, French Open, and US Open, both men and women play best-of-three sets (6 games in each set).