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Consider this for a moment.
Is it possible to win more points in a
tennis match and yet lose the match?
The answer is YES! Tennis is perhaps the
only sport where you can win more points than your opponent and
still end up losing the match.
Therefore, for those of you who have
played your first matches or just starting to play sets, the point
system in tennis can be quite intriguing.
This
is a hypothetical situation! Let’s assume that in a set you win all
your service games to love. This means that in each of your service
games you have won 4 points and your opponent nil. Lets also assume
that your opponent has won all his service games to 30, which means
that your opponent has won 4 points and you have won 2 points in
each of his service games. Let’s repeat this pattern for the entire
set. At 6-6 you would have won 36 points and your opponent would
have won 24 points. OK, at 6 games all, you now get into the
tiebreak and your opponent wins the tiebreak 7-5. So at the end of
the set you have won 41 points and your opponent would have won 31
points. You have won more points than your opponent and yet you lost
the set. Of course, this may not happen every time, but
theoretically the possibility exists. | 
