Tennis tournament
My tennis club held a knockout tournament, in which eight players competed. The two losers of the semi-finals played a match to decide 3rd and 4th places. Matches were decided by the best of five sets, with the match ending once a player had won three sets. Two matches had to be abandoned due to poor weather. When this happened the winner was the player who had won the most completed sets when the match was abandoned 鈥� luckily this didn鈥檛 lead to a draw on either occasion.
At the end of the tournament no two players had played the same number of sets, and all players except the winner had lost more sets than they had won.
It should have a line asking: How many sets were played overall?
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