{"id":3463,"date":"2021-08-05T06:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2021-08-05T06:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:36:19","slug":"why-is-zero-called-love-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-is-zero-called-love-in-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Zero called ‘Love’ in tennis?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. In the game of lawn tennis, ‘love’ represents a score of zero.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. E.g., when the game starts with both players at zero, it is called ‘love-all.’<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. And when one person scores, it becomes 15 to love.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. There are two theories on why love came to mean zero in tennis.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Theory 1:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0It is a corruption of the French word\u00a0<\/span>l’oeuf.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. L’oeuf in French means\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>egg<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Tennis was invented in 1873\/74 in England.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. And according to ‘the egg’ theory, when the game was taken to France, the French used the word\u00a0<\/span>l’\u0153uf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0to mean ‘zero,’ due to 0’s resemblance to an egg<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. And the English people mispronouncing\u00a0<\/span>l\u2019\u0153uf\u00a0<\/span><\/em>as love influenced the change.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Theory 2:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>It comes from the players’ love for the sport.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The idea is that even if a player doesn’t get any points, it doesn’t matter because they are playing for the love of the game rather than to win.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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