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Tennis scoring is weird. Like, really weird. Everybody knows it goes 15, 30, 40, game/advantage/deuce, but within these rules there is in fact a tennis scoring paradox - and that's where things get real bizarre. Today we explore this apparent paradox, that less points might be better than more points, you're better off serving at 0-0 than at 40-30. If you're a superhuman tennis player. Let's dive in with a simple explanation of the tennis score paradox, and a more mathematical exploration which will take most of our time. #paradox #mathmemes

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SOURCES
Nonplussed by Julian Havil!
atptour.com/en/stats/leaderboard?boardType=serve&timeFrame=52week&surface=all&versusRank=all&formerNo1=false
atptour.com/en/news/zverev-infosys-atp-beyond-the-numbers-august-2024
medium.com/@pbercker/the-tennis-match-puzzle-a-bayesian-approach-84d1c3089e08

0:00 Intro
1:18 Tennis Scoring
3:35 Finding the Expressions
6:28 Probability Trees
9:21 Finding P
12:56 Is it Feasible?
15:52 It Makes Sense