Tennis - Wimbledon

[Stickman]

OK. I'm watching the finals of Wimbledon as Fedorer could become like the best ever. They play 5 games or sets or whatever and Fedorer won 3. But now they're playing some sort of Overtime and the 5th games is like 10-9 or something rediculous like that.

I just can't quite understand how this works. I get how to keep score for the most part, but I am so confused why this game hasn't ended awhile ago.

I wikipediad tennis and read scoring on there and I still don't understand. Can somebody explain this shit to me in simple terms?

[El Capitano Gatisto]

It's 2 sets each, they're playing the 5th.

[CSL]

The final set has to be won by 2 clear games

[McLegend]

Sensational serving.

[McLegend]

Don't know how much longer Roddick can hold off Federer though.

[McLegend]

Son of a bitch

[Londoner]

amazing match

[Stickman]

Great to watch but I still don't quite get it. If you have to win by two i don't get why some of the games were 7-6, some the winner had 6, and then in the 5th game there was a 7-6.

So in simple terms do I have this right. Each set you have to get 6 but must be by 2, hence the 7s. You can't get more than 7, 7 is the highest even if it's 7-6 which is a win by 1. Is this right?

The championship is a best of 5. You must win 3 games. However, the 3rd game has to be won by 2?

[GD]

Nooooo...damn you Roger!

[Londoner]

Great to watch but I still don't quite get it. If you have to win by two i don't get why some of the games were 7-6, some the winner had 6, and then in the 5th game there was a 7-6.

So in simple terms do I have this right. Each set you have to get 6 but must be by 2, hence the 7s. You can't get more than 7, 7 is the highest even if it's 7-6 which is a win by 1. Is this right?

The championship is a best of 5. You must win 3 games. However, the 3rd game has to be won by 2?


In the 5th set there is no tie break, if there is a tiebreak in the other sets, then the set will end 7-6 to someone if they win that tiebreak.

[McLegend]

Great to watch but I still don't quite get it. If you have to win by two i don't get why some of the games were 7-6, some the winner had 6, and then in the 5th game there was a 7-6.

So in simple terms do I have this right. Each set you have to get 6 but must be by 2, hence the 7s. You can't get more than 7, 7 is the highest even if it's 7-6 which is a win by 1. Is this right?

The championship is a best of 5. You must win 3 games. However, the 3rd game has to be won by 2?

They have tiebreakers in the first 4 sets if the set goes to 6-6. Tiebreaker is the first to 7 seven win by two. Federer won two tiebreakers hence the two 7-6's.

In 3 of the Grand slams they don't have a 5th set tiebreakers. Hence why you just got like 14-16 or whatever. The U.S open in the only Grand Slam that has a 5th set tiebreaker fyi.

[ct2k]

Roddick's gonna spend a fair while wondering what woulda happened had he nailed that second set tiebreaker, amazing final overall though, fair play to Federer, it's pretty hard to argue with his record.

[McLegend]

You have to wonder if Roddick has ever thought of having Federer taken out.

[ct2k]

Ivanisevic did it in 2001 as a 30 year old wildcard, Roddick's still got a chance imo, he played better this year than I think he ever has, at least in terms of the variety in his game. Saw him coming to the net against Murray in a way which he has basically never done so yknow, who knows:?:

[Gertner]

Federer is amazing. How he isn't beating Tiger Woods in better athlete is beyond me.

[Y2Ant]

so that 16-14 was games?! jesus christ.

i had no idea there were no tiebreaks in the 5th set :o

[Innovator]

Roddick will have nightmares about that tiebreaker for a loooooooooooooooooong time, dammit I wanted Andy to pull through

[ct2k]

Federer is amazing. How he isn't beating Tiger Woods in better athlete is beyond me.


Yeah honestly Federer is superman on a tennis court, he reads the game that much better than his nearest competitors, he gets to balls and makes shots consistently which you see any other guy make once a tournament, he seems to do it every set of every match, amazing tbh.

[Gertner]

He's like a robot. He doesn't have that killer instinct and rarely shows emotion because he's just that damn good.