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[daibhidc]

I don't understand sports. Any sports. So when Mum asked me to find out how Andy Murray did today, I poked uncertainly at the official Wimbledon website for a while before sadly reporting he'd lost - he scored 6766, and his opponent scored 7622. (I was surprised at how big those numbers were, but I don't know enough to question them. And, after all, it does go up in fifteens.)

Apparently, the score should actually be read 6,7,6,6 to 7,6,2,2, which means Andy won three games to one.

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[pedanther]

I believe it's 60, not 50, so the only odd-one-out is 40. I gather that it's really forty-five, but it got abbreviated to forty at some point by somebody who cared more about making it easy to say than about confusing the newcomers.