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Thanks again to Eric for the tough question!
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What is the least number of shots you’d need to take to win a men’s tennis match?
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36...
Each service game you'll need to serve (15/30/40/Game) = 4 aces.
Each non-service game you just sit back and watch your opponent hit 8 balls at the net/crowd/umpire.
So that's 4-shots per 2-games.
Do that 3 times (=12-shots) for 3 sets (best of 5) and you're home and dry.
Brett.
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For the smarty-pants answer: None, if your oppenent retires prior to game 1 of set 1!
For a best of three match: 4 points/game * 6 games * 2 sets = 48 points.
For a best of five match: 4 points/game * 6 games * 3 sets = 72 points.
--G
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Assuming all player A's serves were aces, and player A returned all of player B's serves with a single point-winning shot, it takes A four shots to win when he serves, and eight shots (B's serve plus A's return) to win when B serves. So three games with A serving is 12 shots, and three games with B serving is 24 shots. The minimum shots to win a single 6-game set for A then is 36 shots.
A men's match is typically the best three out of five sets, so to win three sets for A is 108 shots.
108 shots?
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Assuming 3 out of 5 sets and no disqualification or the opponent doesn't quit.
36 strokes
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if it's your service 4 hits
if it isn't your service 0 hits
so 12 hits per set.
3*12 = 36 hits
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Theoretically, 36. You could serve 36 aces, but your opponent has to double-fault every one of his serves.
Cheers,
Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either.
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36
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You only require one shot, probably from a Browning automatic
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Only one. but you gotta hit it really hard and basically incapacitate your opponent...
-Jerry
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All the moons in the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman myths, except for what planet? What is the source of the names of its moons?
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Uranus. The moons are named after characters in Shakespeare's plays.
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Callisto, Ganymede and Europa are greek names. The only planet that is the exception of the rule is, of course, the Earth.
Furthermore, the so called 10th planet, if considered a planet in this year's international astronomy conference, would be the first planet that it has neither greek nor roman gods names. The person that discovered the planet proposed the name of "Xena".
A polar bear is a bear whose coordinates has been changed in terms of sine and cosine.
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I think this question is wrong, because there are several planets whose moons do not have greek or roman names. As it has been said, Uranus' moons are named after Shakespeare's characters. Also Jupiter has moons named just by a number, and of course Earth's moon.
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I think the question was suppose to be:
All the moons in the Solar System (that have had official names assigned to them) are named after Greek and Roman myths, except for what planet? What is the source of the names of its moons?
Steve
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Uranus, whose moons are named after Shakespeare characters, and Earth, whose moon is called, well, Moon.
Cheers,
Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either.
Militant Agnostic
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Uranus. All the moons are Shakesperean characters.
Thanks to all the smarty-pants who answered this question.
Jordon
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Which animals would be described as being anatine?
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Ducks
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What is the only non-metal liquid at room temperature?
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