Wimbledon - what's the white number that sometimes appears on the new scoreboard on Centre Court?

Question

Sometimes a small white number appears under the scores from previous sets on the new Centre Court scoreboard - anyone know what it is? After the second set of the Murray/Haas match there was a white number 4 between the 7 and the 6 underneath it....anyone know?

Answer 1

It might be a tie breaker score.

Answer 2

It is the number of points won by the loser of the tiebreak in question.  It's a very nice addition to the official scoreboard on the courts.

Answer 3

It is the ammount of points the looser in the tie-breaker gets.

The 7 is the games won, and points in tie-breaker, and the middle point is the loosers' points in the tie-breaker.

It is different if it is let's say 11-9 in a tie-breaker!

Answer 4

That's the amount of points the loser of the tiebreaker won. Murray won 4 games to Hass' 7 in the second set tiebreaker.

Answer 5

Sometimes the scores usually like this:

Federer def. Nadal 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-2.

That (5) means that Nadal (the loser) only won 5 points in the tiebreaker to Federer's 7. So it just means how many points the person who lost the tiebreaker won. (?)

Answer 6

It's the tie-break score. A tie-break is played when a set reaches 6-6 (but not the final set in the grand slams; that continues until one of the players/teams is two games clear.)

Tie-breaks are relatively new in tennis and were introduced to shorten matches for the player's sakes. Some matches had 12-10 15-13 scores, and you can imagine how hard that must be on the players.

In a tie break, the person who's serve it was to level the set 6-6 receives first. Their opponent serves for one point, and then they serve for two, and then their opponent serves for two, and they serve for two again etc.

After six points in the tie-break the players swap sides.

A tie-break is won when one of the players reaches 7 points with two clear points. So the maximum amount of points their opponent can have when they win the tie-break with seven points is 7-5. In a tie-break, the usual 15, 30 and 40 ways of scoring points are not used, but instead points are just done 1, 2, 3 etc.

If the tie-break reaches 6-6, one of the players must win 8 points to win the tie-break. In other words, the tie-break must be won with at least a two point lead; so it can be won 7-0, 7-1, 7-2 etc until 7-5, and then 8-6, 9-7, 10-8 etc.

When a player wins the tie-break, they win the respective set that was taken to a tie-break.

A tie-break set, after being completed, is shown as 7-6, the person who won the tie-break having 7 games and the loser having 6.

The little numbers shown next to the 6 is the amount of points the loser won. If they won anywhere between 0-5 points then the opponent must have won 7 points, however if the loser won 6 or above points, the winner must have won +2 points to whatever the loser scored.

So in this case, the winner of that set won 7 points and the loser won 4.

I hope this helps and isn't too confusing!