Why is tennis scored the way it is scored?

Applying the ‘Problem of Points’ to tennis

For a game thought of as quintessentially British, with Wimbledon almost arrogantly being known as just ‘The Championships’, I was surprised to know that it probably has its roots in medieval 12th century France (although Brits aren’t really strangers to stealing stuff from other cultures). It appears that the origins of ‘love’, ‘15’, ‘30’ and then the bizarre jump to ‘40’ are a bit mysterious, but all …

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