{"id":1364,"date":"2009-07-04T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T22:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/07\/04\/1364\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T22:32:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T22:32:51","slug":"tennis-football-and-football-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/tennis-football-and-football-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis football and football tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mandy-and-john\/3487037775\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3316\/3487037775_c6394b41e2_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mandy-and-john\/3487037775\/\">tennis soccer<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mandy-and-john\/\">mandy&amp;john<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watching a bit of Wimbledon, with some matches lasting forever and others finishing almost immediately, made me think about the difference between tennis and football.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be interesting to design a variant of tennis that was more like football, and vice versa?  To be specific:<\/p>\n<p><b>Football tennis:<\/b> Basically tennis, but a match lasts 90 minutes.  During those 90 minutes, as many games (the 15-30-40 things) as can be fitted in are played.  If a game ends with no points to the opponent, the player gets a point.  In this way, a match should end up with a score more like football (such as 5&ndash;2), and it would be possible to get one or two points just before the finish to change the expected result.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tennis football:<\/b> Basically football, but a match is divided into sets.  To make it easier to score a goal, the goalkeepers are eliminated.  To win a set, a team has to get at least six goals, and two more than the other team.  The first team to win two sets wins the match.  In this way, a match is never decided until the very last moment, but it might theoretically last forever if the teams are evenly matched.<\/p>\n<p>Would these new games be more popular that the original ones, I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tennis soccer Originally uploaded by mandy&amp;john Watching a bit of Wimbledon, with some matches lasting forever and others finishing almost immediately, made me think about the difference between tennis and football. Wouldn&#8217;t it be interesting to design a variant of tennis that was more like football, and vice versa? To be specific: Football tennis: Basically tennis, but a match lasts 90 minutes. During those 90 minutes, as many games (the 15-30-40 things) as can be fitted in are played. If a game ends with no points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}