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Why 15 30 40 for a game?

Updated: 9/21/2023
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The scoring is based on the scoring rules of real tennis. Real, here, refers to royal as opposed to fake. I real tennis, the scores were 15, 30 and 45 but the last got shortened to 40 in the "new" game of lawn tennis.

Read more on real tennis at link.

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