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With the men’s final of Roland Garros about to start, I have written a pretty simple piece about how much a set is worth in a tennis match (in probability terms). I have tried to keep the style accessible, as with the Pointless maths articles (although I probably simplified a little too much with those).

Click here to read the article.

The photo is from Yann Caradec via Wikimedia Commons, published Creative Commons: HERE.