Show love all tennis term the expression love all to in tennis evidently had its origin about 1742 when the expression love I 1 was first used in hoyles whist to indicate a game without scores hence it came to mean no score on either side its first use in connection with tennis tenni s was apparently in 1833 in a book called the parsons daughter in which appears the line cant make a hazard and has lost two love games J marshall in his book on tennis in 1878 defined love as nothing scored boneither on either side |