French pops up in a few tennis terms, including this one. When a game is at the 40-40 mark and a player still needs to win by two clear points, then it goes to deuce. This is where a player must ...

But there are a few phrases I could live without hearing again in the new year. Here, as we get set to launch into the next 11 months, are five of them. 1. “Tennis players may be the world’s ...

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 ...

During a game of tennis, when a player is yet to win a point ... As Question of Sport head geek Gareth Edwards explains, the origins of many terms are hard to prove definitively.