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What is the term when a tennis game is tied at 40-40? is it love or advantage or deuce or match?

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When the hand moved to 60, the game was over. However, in order to ensure that the game could not be won by a one-point difference in players' scores, the idea of "deuce" was introduced. To make the score stay within the "60" ticks on the clock face, the 45 was changed to 40.
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Deuce ( advantage out )
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