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In tennis, "love" is the same as zero points. L'oeuf is the French word for egg (the shape of which is a bit like a 0). It is said that this is what was called out and over time people thought that the word was love.

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Rumour has it that this has its origins in the french word for egg, which is oeuf, therefore l'oeuf = 0

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The word love in tennis is a corresponding call in scoring of it and the meaning of love in tennis is 0.

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0. Think of it as love means nothing

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