Padel scoreboard

Keeping score here takes one tap per point: two large buttons, one per pair, sit under the board, and the pair that wins the rally gets the tap. The board shows finished sets, games and the point call, a dot marks the serving pair, and badges flag break point, set point and match point. Undo takes back the last tap as often as needed, and names, format and options stay for the next match.

Whoever holds the phone acts as score keeper. Alternatively the phone can rest by the net post, and players tap it between points while they collect the balls.

Three options sit below the board. The score can be read aloud after each point by the browser's own speech, serving pair first, wherever the browser has an English voice. The screen can stay on during a match through Screen Wake Lock, on browsers that allow it. The point buttons can also swap places at every change of ends, so the left button always belongs to the pair on the left.

The match is saved in this browser's local storage, and nothing is sent anywhere. Copy link shares the match format but never the names. Like the click speed test, the scoreboard runs in any phone or computer browser, with no install and no account.

Padel counts points, games and sets with the calls tennis uses. A pair's first point is called 15, its second 30 and its third 40 (FIP Rules of Padel, Rule 1). Its next point wins the game, unless both pairs have reached 40. No points at all is called love. The server's score always comes first, so 30-15 means the serving pair leads.

A set goes to the first pair to win 6 games with a two-game margin. That is why a set can finish 7-5. At 6-6 one deciding game, the tie-break, ends it 7-6.

The standard match is the best of three sets, so two sets win it (Rule 1, Option 1). Where both pairs have agreed beforehand, a third set may be played out without that deciding game. It then runs on until one pair is two games clear.

Many competitions shorten this outline, with shorter sets or a quick decider in place of the third set. The rules call these alternative score methods, and the scoreboard offers each of them as a setting.

At 40-40 the score is deuce, and the agreed format decides what comes next: advantage play, a golden point or the Star Point. The FIP lists all three as options and names none of them the default (Rule 1).

• Advantage (Option 1): whoever wins the point after deuce has the advantage. One more point wins the game, while losing it brings the score back to deuce, until a pair wins two points in a row.
• Golden point (Option 3): the first deuce leads straight to one deciding point, so no game can last longer than 7 points.
• Star Point (Option 2): up to 2 advantages are played, called deuce 1, advantage 1, deuce 2 and advantage 2. Deuce 3 brings a single sudden-death point, which caps a game at 11 points.

On any deciding point the receiving pair chooses whether to receive on the right or the left. Its players cannot swap positions for that point. In mixed doubles, the player who receives it is the same sex as the server.

The FIP General Assembly adopted the newest of the three on 28 November 2025, for the rules applying from 1 January 2026 (FIP announcement). It was first played at the FIP Bronze Melbourne, a CUPRA FIP Tour event, from 5 January 2026. Premier Padel brought it in at the Riyadh P1 from 9 February 2026, with every set decided by a tie-break (Premier Padel Official Rulebook 2026/2, art. 11.9).

With that rule in play, the board counts the deuces, with a line such as "Deuce 2: the deciding point comes at deuce 3". A fourth setting covers clubs that settle on a middle way: one advantage, then a final point at deuce 2. It is not one of the FIP options.

At 6-6 in games the set goes to a tie-break, one game counted in plain numbers: zero, 1, 2, 3 and so on (Rule 1, tie-break). The first pair to 7 points with a lead of two wins it, and the set with it. Without that lead, the tie-break simply carries on.

The player whose turn it is to serve opens with a single point from the right. After that each player serves two points in a row, starting from the left, in the same order as the rest of the set.

A1 and A2 are the two players of Pair A in their serving order, and B1 and B2 those of Pair B. The pairs change ends after every 6 points (Rule 5.2). The next set starts with the pair that did not serve first in the tie-break, Pair B in this case (Rule 1, tie-break).

The 2026 text does not say whether a tie-break counts as a game when ends are changed. The scoreboard treats it as one, so after a set won 7-6 the pairs change ends.

A super tie-break replaces the third set when the pairs reach one set all. It is first to 10 points with a lead of two, and its winners take the match (Rule 1, alternative score methods).

The same part of the rules allows a shorter decider played to 7 points. It also allows a mini set of 4 games, settled at 4-4 in the same way as a full set. The settings add a long set of 9 games, settled at 8-8, and a match that consists of nothing but the 10-point decider.

In the statistics, a match won this way reads 6-4 3-6 [10-8]. Pair A took the first set, lost the second and won the super tie-break, whose score sits in square brackets.

The 2026 rules do not say who serves in a super tie-break. The scoreboard continues the serve rotation of the match and changes ends every 6 points, as it does within a set.

Every game starts with a serve from the right half of the court, and the server then alternates sides point by point (Rule 6.5). The ball must bounce first and be struck at or below waist height (Rules 6.2 and 6.4). It travels diagonally into the receiver's service box, the area between the net and the service line on one side of the centre service line.

Serve passes to the other pair after every game, and partners take turns within each pair. The order of service therefore runs A1, B1, A2, B2 and starts again. Before each set every pair may choose which partner serves first, and that order then holds until the set ends (Rule 6.8).

Receiving follows the same idea. In its first receiving game of a set, a pair decides which player takes the first point of each game (Rule 8.2). That order then holds for the whole set (Rule 8.3).

The first choice of the match comes from a coin toss. Its winners can choose to serve or receive, pick an end, or ask the opponents to choose first (Rule 4.1). The other pair then takes the remaining choice. The scoreboard tosses a fair virtual coin with the browser's cryptographic generator and names the winners.

After a set that ends without a tie-break, the 2026 rules give no special order, and the scoreboard keeps serve alternating from game to game.

Pairs change ends after every odd-numbered game of a set: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 (Rule 5.1). Each change of ends allows up to 90 seconds of rest, except the first one in a set, when players cross straight over (Rule 2.5).

Between points the limit is 20 seconds (Rule 2.4). At the end of a set the pairs may rest for up to 2 minutes (Rule 2.6).

Changes during a tie-break are less clear. Rule 2.5 says play there is continuous, while Rule 2.10 grants 20 seconds for each of those changes. The scoreboard shows the 20 seconds as the most that is allowed.

At every change of ends a message names the rest allowed. A countdown can then be started, and it vibrates at zero on phones that support vibration.

In Great Britain the Lawn Tennis Association runs padel competitions as LTA Padel, under the rules of the Fédération Internationale de Padel, the International Padel Federation. For padel events, the LTA Competition Regulations put the FIP's Rules of Padel Tennis in place of the Rules of Tennis (LTA Competition Regulations 2026, reg 1.8).

LTA-sanctioned tournaments follow a minimum scoring format for each grade, set out in the LTA Padel Competition Referee and Organiser Guide 2027.

• Grades 1 and 2, the National Tour: two tie-break sets and a match tie-break, with the Star Point mandatory from 1 January 2026.
• Grades 3 and 4, the Regional and County Tours: FAST4. Its short sets go to a tie-break at 3-3, deuce brings a sudden-death point, and one set all leads to a 10-point decider.
• Grade 5, the Local Tour: a single set, which is the One set setting with standard sets. From Grade 3 down, LTA Padel makes the Star Point optional.

Club and social matches have no fixed format, so the four players agree one before the first point. The format menu offers 4 named formats plus the settings behind them, and the format is fixed once play starts.

Americano and Mexicano are different animals: social formats in which partners change between rounds and each player collects points. The scoreboard does not run them, since it scores one doubles match in games and sets.

Most slips in club matches come from serve and ends rather than from the points themselves.

• Calling the receivers' score first. The server's score leads, so 15-40 means the servers trail.
• Staying put at 1-0. The first change of ends comes after one game, without a rest, not after two.
• Restarting the rotation after a set. A new set does not reset serve, and after a tie-break the pair that received its first point serves next.
• Switching receivers partway through a set. The receiving order chosen in the first game holds until the set ends.

Points played at the wrong end or by the wrong server still count. The error is corrected as soon as it is noticed (Rules 5.3 and 6.9), and the rule texts behind every figure here are listed under sources.