Love? Deuce? Advantage? What does it all mean? Tennis has long had the most unique way of keeping score, and the origins of the sport's scoring system are actually fairly ambiguous. So if you're ...

The scoring system on the ATP and WTA Tours can be a little confusing. Why does tennis count points as '15, 30, 40' and not numerically like most other sports? Points give you games, games give you ...

Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know. All sports have their own vocabularies, the ...

The game of tennis traces its roots back to medieval France, and although history cannot exactly pinpoint the origin of tennis' scoring system, the modern version of tennis scoring was finalized in ...