Every time a rally is won, a winning serve is struck, or a double-fault (two successive serves which fail to land in the required area) is served, one of the players scores a point. When a match starts, one player begins the points by serving for a whole game. Two or three sets wins the match, depending upon the format. 6 games give them a set, but they must have a 2-game lead.Ī ‘tie-break’ game is played at 6-6. In that case, they would need to win two successive points to win the game. If a player wins the next point when they are on 40, they score 1 game – but only if their opponent is not on 40 too. In brief, within each game scores increase from 0 to 15 to 30 to 40 as points are won. So how do we read the scores in a tennis match? Whatever the real reason is, the quirky and archaic scoring system seems to be here to stay. Some have suggested that the scores represent positions on a clock face, whilst others believe that they represent how far you were allowed to move forward into the court when serving in a precursor of the modern game. There is a lot of debate as to the origin of the tennis scoring system. In tennis, whilst all points are in truth worth the same, they are not represented by the addition of a consistent number to the scoreboard. In most racquet sports, one point is awarded when a rally is won. In almost every other sport there is a consistent number of points awarded for a particular method of scoring. 3 seed, in straight sets in the last two rounds.Īlcaraz has dropped only two sets in the entire tournament, the same number of sets has Djokovic dropped.For someone who is not familiar with the game, the scoring system used in tennis must seem very strange. The Spaniard is in the best possible form to combat Djokovic. He owns a 23-11 record in his 34 Grand Slam finals.ĭjokovic outlasted Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and he has found a way to keep the younger generation of players at bay.Īlcaraz has an opportunity to earn a rare breakthrough against Djokovic from his generation of players. Open against Daniil Medvedev.ĭjokovic is 11-2 in his last 13 Grand Slam final appearances. His only loss in that span came at the 2021 U.S. Djokovic beat Matteo Berrettini and Nick Kyrgios in the last two Wimbledon finals. The 36-year-old Serbian defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Australian Open and beat Casper Ruud to win the French Open.Īlcaraz is the sixth different player to face Djokovic in his last six Grand Slam finals. Djokovic is one win away from sweeping the first three major titles of 2023.
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