How padel scoring works

Padel uses the same scoring ladder as tennis. Points go 15, 30, 40, then game. Win four points with a margin of two and the game is yours. Six games win a set, again with a margin of two, so 6-4 and 7-5 are full sets and 6-5 is not.

A match is the best of three sets, so the first pair to win two. Padel is almost always played as doubles, two against two, on an enclosed court where the walls are in play, but the scoring is the same for singles.

At 40-40 the game is at deuce. In traditional scoring the next point gives one pair the advantage, and they need the point after that to take the game. Lose it and the score returns to deuce, and a game can return to deuce several times before it ends.

The golden point replaces that. At 40-40 a single point decides the game. The receiving pair chooses which of them receives the serve, and whoever wins the rally wins the game. The professional tours have used the golden point since 2020, and many clubs and leagues use it because it keeps matches close to their booked time.

Whichever version you play, the score of the game is the same. A set is still counted in games, so the golden point changes how a game ends, not what you record afterwards.

When a set reaches six games all, a tiebreak decides it. Points are counted one, two, three, and the first pair to seven points with a margin of two takes the tiebreak and the set. The set is recorded as 7-6.

Padel does not play advantage sets. In tennis a set with no tiebreak can run to 8-6 or 9-7. In padel the tiebreak at six all is the rule, so a set never goes beyond 7-6 or 7-5.

If the sets are shared one each, a third set decides the match. At many clubs that third set is replaced by a match tiebreak: first to 10 points with a margin of two, so 10-8 wins and 10-9 does not. It saves court time and keeps the finish short.

FinalPoint saves a match tiebreak as the deciding set, so the record reads 6-4, 3-6, 10-8. When the app works out the margin of a win it treats that 10-8 like a tiebreak set, not like a four-game gap, so a match tiebreak never reads as a heavy defeat.

A padel match is one record with every set inside it. Enter each set as you played it, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8, and the app stores the sets won as the result, with every set score kept on the record. A one-set match is recorded exactly the same way, with one set.

The record form starts on doubles, because padel is a doubles sport, and all four players get the result on their record. Switch to singles when you play it. Any score saves: a set cut short by the court booking is kept as played, marked "Not a full set, saved as played", so a 4-3 still counts for the players in it.

Groups can fix their own format in settings, one set or the best of three, and the record form follows it.