The Williams sisters had met 19 times before their semifinal meeting, Venus leading the head-to-head tally 10 9.
Djokovic led the head-to-head tally against Murray, but Murray had won the last two encounters between them.
So he fired off another email to his subordinates, ordering the (still) human-staffed PR department to add one more human head to its tally, with a special focus on the algorithms powering the machine — thinking, as he did so, multiple steps ahead to the great day when such a ridiculous job would no longer be necessary.
There are just too many to remember off the top of my head, and this tally doesn't even include my car payments and credit card accounts.
From the White House, LBJ worked the phones; invited senators and representatives singly and collectively in for coffee, drinks or dinner; listened attentively in private to opponents and proponents from interests as varied as business, labor, medicine and religion; and kept in his head a running tally of the fluctuating vote count.
It's heads, and a tally board shows that the last hundred or so flips have also been heads.
"Lone parents tally heads for 2 million" isn't bad: the Office for National Statistics says there were 1.7 million lone-parent households with dependent children in England and Wales in 2011, an increase from 1.4 million in 2001.
With almost all 543 seats declared by Saturday morning, Modi's BJP looked set to win 282 seats, 10 more than the majority required to rule, and was heading for a tally of about 337 with its allied parties.
In a press release at the beginning of this week, the CSJ told us: "Lone parents tally heads for two million Around one million children grow up with no contact with their father some of the poorest parts of the country have become 'men deserts' because so few primary schools have male teachers".
Janssen did score from the spot, as he also did in the EFL Cup defeat by Liverpool in midweek, and had chances to add to his tally - heading an Eriksen cross wide, then turning Huth adroitly and shooting a fraction off target.
Buoyed by four Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta nominations, plus scorching word of mouth and endless media buzz, Slumdog surged 44% from its opening weekend tally to head the chart with £2.63m; its 10-day total is now £5.96m.
