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Spin and more spin.
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In tennis you have games, sets and matches.
1) Games: games are short, one person serves for the whole game. Then in the next game the other player serves. The games take anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes to play.
2) Sets: a set is made up of games. The first player to win 6 games while winning by 2 games, wins the set. They used to play till someone won a set by 2 games. Then they instituted a tie breaker system where, if the score of a set is 6 games to 6, then they will play a tie breaker to determine the winner of the set. In some tournaments the final set in a match is played with no tie breakers.
3) Match: a match is usually the winner of best of 3 or 5 sets. In a best of three match, the first player to win 2 sets wins the match. In a best of 5 match, the first player to win 3 sets is the winner of the match.
Why am I explaining this simple information that most of you probably already know?
Why on earth do people call the games in a table tennis match sets? What are they sets of? They are not sets of anything. They are games. They are not, in fact sets. I think this is being done because some people want to make table tennis sound more similar to tennis. But when people say he won the first set, it is sort of silly and sort of confusing. There are no sets in table tennis: only games and matches.
Okay, that is at least what I think.
Does anyone think that, what I am referring to as games, should be called sets? Is there a reason why they should be called sets and how would they qualify as sets? What are they sets of?
Don't worry for my sanity. I am not really concerned about this. I just find it odd that ITTF announcers call the games sets and then fans follow suit.
1) Games: games are short, one person serves for the whole game. Then in the next game the other player serves. The games take anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes to play.
2) Sets: a set is made up of games. The first player to win 6 games while winning by 2 games, wins the set. They used to play till someone won a set by 2 games. Then they instituted a tie breaker system where, if the score of a set is 6 games to 6, then they will play a tie breaker to determine the winner of the set. In some tournaments the final set in a match is played with no tie breakers.
3) Match: a match is usually the winner of best of 3 or 5 sets. In a best of three match, the first player to win 2 sets wins the match. In a best of 5 match, the first player to win 3 sets is the winner of the match.
Why am I explaining this simple information that most of you probably already know?
Why on earth do people call the games in a table tennis match sets? What are they sets of? They are not sets of anything. They are games. They are not, in fact sets. I think this is being done because some people want to make table tennis sound more similar to tennis. But when people say he won the first set, it is sort of silly and sort of confusing. There are no sets in table tennis: only games and matches.
Okay, that is at least what I think.
Does anyone think that, what I am referring to as games, should be called sets? Is there a reason why they should be called sets and how would they qualify as sets? What are they sets of?
Don't worry for my sanity. I am not really concerned about this. I just find it odd that ITTF announcers call the games sets and then fans follow suit.
