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AND off the court! Come here for your
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Aubrey Gage and
Austin Delks, Gage's
costar for this fall's
highly anticipated
drama NYC, hit up
Dolce & Gabbana on
NYC's Madison
Avenue July 11.
Austin Delks, Gage's
costar for this fall's
highly anticipated
drama NYC, hit up
Dolce & Gabbana on
NYC's Madison
Avenue July 11.
Left: Adams at age
14 in the September
1998 issue of Teen
Vogue, her first
magazine shot
14 in the September
1998 issue of Teen
Vogue, her first
magazine shot
| Bryony... then & now! |
| Right: As featured in "L'Art de la Mode" (translation: "The Art of Fashion") spread in March 2007's French Vogue. Adams said of the shoot, "It was my favorite photo shoot. I loved the colors they put in my hair, I loved the clothes, and I loved the concept of the spread. I got to choose which medium I wanted for my photos. Oil painting is my passion, and oils are usually the ones I'm most attracted to in galleries and museums as well, so I chose that. It was so much fun." |
Austin Delks and Aubrey Gage hung
at the grand opening of SINY on Labor
Day Weekend in NYC. Where was
Gage's boyfriend, tennis bad boy
Haidin Bayliss, recently dubbed
"Hades" by GSM? He was there that
night; he and Gage walked the red
carpet together and were seen talking
to Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo,
but he was later MIA. Let's hope he
wasn't pulling a repeat of Rome while
Aubrey was in the same bar...that
would NOT fall under the provisions of
the Area Code Rule!
at the grand opening of SINY on Labor
Day Weekend in NYC. Where was
Gage's boyfriend, tennis bad boy
Haidin Bayliss, recently dubbed
"Hades" by GSM? He was there that
night; he and Gage walked the red
carpet together and were seen talking
to Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo,
but he was later MIA. Let's hope he
wasn't pulling a repeat of Rome while
Aubrey was in the same bar...that
would NOT fall under the provisions of
the Area Code Rule!
| Bruin's Bombshells! Jill Sherer, Hilton Joliet, Bryony Adams, and Rory Bollier graced Tanner Bruin's box at his third-round French Open match on Court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros May 31 in Paris. |
| GameSetMatch presents YOU WON’T WANT LOVE ONCE YOU KNOW HOW TO SCORE A beginner’s guide to tennis A tennis match is divided into either 3 or 5 sets. To win a match, a player must win either 2 sets (in a best-of-3 match) or 3 sets (in a best-of-5 match). To win a set, a player must win 6 games. The player must win the set by at least 2 games (example: 6-2). To win a game, a player must score 4 points and win by at least 2. The scoring, however, does not go 1, 2, 3, 4. It goes as follows: love = 0 points 15 = 1 point 30 = 2 points 40 = 3 points There is no specific name for the 4th point, because as soon as someone wins it, the game is over, unless the score going into that point was tied at 40-40. If the players are tied at 3 points apiece, or 40- 40, this is called deuce. Whoever wins the next point after the deuce has the advantage. If this player wins the next point as well, he/she wins the game. If the player who does not have the advantage wins the next point, the score returns to deuce. This goes on until someone wins the game. If the score reaches 6 games to 5 in a set, another game is played. If the score is then 7-5, the set is over. If the score is then 6-6, a tiebreaker, or “breaker,” is played. To win the tiebreaker, a player must score 7 points and win by at least 2 (example: 7-4). In the tiebreaker the score simply goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and so on. If the score is tied at 6-6, 7-7, or higher, the game goes on until one player wins by 2 (example: 12-10). The winner of the tiebreaker wins the set 7 games to 6, or 7-6. In 3 major tournaments—the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon—tiebreakers are not allowed in the 5th set of matches. Therefore, if players are tied at 6 games apiece in the 5th set, they will continue playing normal games until one player has won by 2. The longest 5th set to ever be played was at Wimbledon in 2010, when John Isner of the US beat Nicolas Mahut of France 70-68 in the 5th set of their 1st-round match. Scores of matches are written and announced as follows in this example: “Player 1 d. Player 2: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(1), 7-6(8).” The numbers in parentheses () tell the scores of the tiebreakers. The number shown in parentheses is the number of points scored by the player who lost the tiebreaker. Given this number, it can be determined how many the winner scored as well, since it is known the winner must score at least 7 and win by at least 2. So, here is what can be interpreted from the above score: 1) Player 1 defeated Player 2. 2) This was a best-of-5 match, because Player 1 had to win 3 sets to win the match. 3) Player 1 won the 1st set 6 games to 4, lost the 2nd set 5 games to 7, and won the 3rd and 4th sets in tiebreakers. 4) In the 3rd-set tiebreaker, the losing player (Player 2) scored only 1 point. Therefore, it can be deduced that Player 1 scored 7 points since 7 points must be scored in order to win. 5) In the 4th-set tiebreaker, the losing player (Player 2) scored 8 points. This means Player 1 had to have scored 10 points, since the tiebreaker must be won by 2. At the beginning of a match, a coin flip is performed to see who will serve the first game. The other player serves the second game, and they continue to switch back and forth every game of the match. Typically, players win the games they serve. Every time this happens, it is called a hold. Players are said to have “held serve.” If a player is able to win a game while the other player is serving, it is called a break. The player who lost the game he/she served has “been broken.” The following are some terms that go along with serving. up a break: a player is ahead in the set because he/she has broken the other player’s serve (“up 2 breaks” would mean a player has broken the other player twice in the set, and so on) down a break: a player is behind in the set because he/she has been broken (“down 2 breaks” would mean a player has been broken twice in the set, and so on) on serve: no one has broken in the set; each player has held his/her own serve in every game back on serve: each player has broken the other player an equal number of times in the set, so that the score is what it would be if each player had held his/her serve in every game trade breaks: one player breaks, then the other player breaks back so that the score is back on serve fault: a player’s serve does not land within the service lines on the court 2nd serve: after a fault, the player’s 2nd try to serve the ball within the service lines double-fault: a player serves 2 faults in a row and therefore loses the point let: a player serves and the ball hits the net on the way over but still lands within the service lines—the player then gets a free do-over We don’t expect you to remember all of this, but feel free to use it as a guide, tear it out to keep by your TV when you watch tennis, refer to it while reading GSM, use it to improve your tennis lingo, etc. If you do take one thing from this how-to, just remember…love won’t help your game in this sport. ©GSM |
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