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{{a|metaphor|}}Being by nature and physical displacement a [[cricket]]er, and therefore and anti-tennis player it has taken the JC some years to come to terms with the fact that tennis can tell us something meaningful about the world.

====Mathematics is arbitrary====

{{~~DropT~~|ennis employs an}} alien mathematical system. Firstly, it does not progress sequentially — the first two points in a game are worth 15, the third only 10 — though there is no suggestion that the third point is any less valuable — and thereafter the game numbering just gives up and talks only of an “advantage” which can be acquired and then forfeit any number of times — counting switches from accretion to a net differential. To win a game you must both accumulate a minimum of four points, but also a bet differential of two. One gets no credit for winning be a larger differential: a service game broken to love is worth the same as a service game won on the 42nd deuce.

{{Drop|T|ennis employs an}} alien mathematical system. Firstly, it does not progress sequentially — the first two points in a game are worth 15, the third only 10 — though there is no suggestion that the third point is any less valuable — and thereafter the game numbering just gives up and talks only of an “advantage” which can be acquired and then forfeit any number of times — counting switches from accretion to a net differential. To win a game you must both accumulate a minimum of four points, but also a bet differential of two. One gets no credit for winning be a larger differential: a service game broken to love is worth the same as a service game won on the 42nd deuce.

Thus it is quite possible for a player to score more points in total but still lose the match.

Tennis: Difference between revisions

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