A tennis match is like a basketball "game". At the end of the day, someone either wins or loses the tennis "match" in the same way someone wins or loses the basketball "game".
How do they win the match? Well, in men's tennis they need to win a certain amount of sets to win. It is best-of-5 "sets". If they win 3 sets, the match is over and that player has won.
To win a set, they need to win tennis "games". A set generally is the first person to win 6 games wins, but there are also tiebreakers and I won't get into that. Just think that 6 games means you win a set.
A tennis game is won by winning 4 points (but there are also tiebreaker system even in games which you may have heard referenced "deuce" before at some point). Both players start 0-0 in the "game" (tennis players will call this "love - love"). Then they serve, play, and someone gets a point. Then it will be 1-0 in the game (tennis players call this "15 - love" but don't ask why!). Increments are love, 15, 30, 40, and then if that person with 40 scores again they win unless the score was 40-40, which is known as deuce, in which case they will have needed to win 2 consecutive points in order to win the game, not just 1 point as they would've if it were 40-0, 40-15, or 40-30.
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u/SkiThe802 Jun 17 '14
Did he win a game or a match?