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Coco Gauff found herself at the center of controversy during the Italian Open after openly questioning one of tennis’ oldest traditions: the scoring system. Following her win in Rome, the American star admitted that going from 15 to 30 and suddenly to 40 “doesn’t make sense” and can be difficult to explain to new fans.

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00:00With some of the crazy matches you've had here this week, do you ever think about how unique the tennis
00:06scoring system is?
00:08And is there anything you would ever like to change about it?
00:12Yeah, it is very brutal at times and also favorable at times.
00:16So I think it's the uniqueness about our sport is literally not over until it's over.
00:22If there's anything I would change, the games like 15 love, 30, that doesn't make any sense to me.
00:28And it's so hard to explain it to people. It goes 15, 30, but then it goes to 40.
00:33It's like, why? Maybe just so, I don't know, one, zero, one, all, like situation.
00:38I don't know, but, or at least make it like incrementally, like it should be 45, not 40.
00:43So, yeah.
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