
HI #75: "World’s Most Interesting Podcast"
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Tennis Tiebreakers
In tennis you have to break the other person's serve at least once. This resulted in the introduction of the tiebreaker so if a set of tennis gets to six ole you play sort of a special kind of mini-game called a tiebreaker it's like a penalty shootout or like a blitz game of chess whoever wins that tiebreaker wins the set seven six you move on to the next set. But in grand slam tournaments such as Wimbledon it's considered unfair to decide the whole match on tiebreakers. So it goes to the old-fashioned way of you have to win by two and like you're saying you could play forever you'll just keep taking it in turns games one person
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