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Real padel scoring: 15, 30, 40, golden point or advantage, sets, the tie-break at 6–6, and the serve and the ends called for you. It loads once and then runs with no signal, sized for a phone propped against the glass. It scores one night at a time — keeping the record across a season is the app’s job.

Before the first serve
At 40–40

Golden point: one rally settles it. Advantage: two clear points, deuce as often as it takes.

Match length

One set is a crew night on one court. Best of 3 needs about two hours.

First serve
Tonight

Lights are on. Nothing settled yet.

Tonight’s results are saved in this browser. Clear the list, switch device or open a private window and they are gone — there is no history here beyond what you can see.

Method

How the scoring works

The board follows the FIP Rules of Padel, and every rule below is in that rulebook rather than in our heads.

Points climb 15, 30, 40, game. At 40–40 you get the option the rules give you: the golden point, where a single rally decides the game and the receiving pair choose which side receives it, or advantage, where deuce runs until one pair takes two points clear. A set is six games with two games clear. At 6–6 the board plays a tie-break, won by the first pair to seven points with a two-point margin, and the set goes into the record as 7–6.

Serve and ends are called from the same rules. Serve alternates every game. Inside a tie-break the pair whose turn it was serves one point, then each pair serves two consecutive points, and the next set is opened by the pair who did NOT open the tie-break. Ends change after the first, third and every subsequent odd game of the set — which is why the board reads the running total before it resets the games, so the game that ends a set still counts toward the odd-game rule — and every six points inside a tie-break.

Undo is a snapshot stack, not a reversal: every point pushes a full copy of the match state, so stepping back restores the exact score, server and end rather than trying to unwind the logic. Up to 500 of those snapshots are kept in your browser's storage, and the running match survives a reload from the same place.

Tonight's results list is honest about what it is. It is saved in this browser — clear the list, switch device or open a private window and it is gone. There is no history here beyond what you can see, which is the one thing a scoreboard in a tab cannot give you.

Where this comes from

  1. Rules of Padel (score in a game, golden point, tie-break, changes of sides) International Padel Federation (FIP), December 2025 edition
  2. Rules of padel — the LTA summary for players in Britain LTA Padel

Rivals is not affiliated with any padel federation and nothing here is coached, reviewed or official. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published figure, the note above says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 21 August 2026.

Why the score needs to be visible to all four of you

Most padel nights run on the same three-second argument: was that 30–40 or 40–30? Nobody wrote it down, the pair that is winning remembers it differently from the pair that is losing, and the answer goes to whoever says it with most confidence. A phone propped against the glass with a board on it ends that: the score is visible to all four of you before the next serve, which is the entire point of a scoreboard.

Two settings decide how long your booking actually lasts. Golden point caps every 40–40 at one rally, which is why crews on a 90-minute court nearly always pick it — advantage games are the thing that eats the last twenty minutes. One set is the honest default for a weeknight: best of three, with a tie-break, needs closer to two hours, and that is worth agreeing before the first serve rather than at 21:45.

Two habits make any scoreboard work. Say the score out loud before every serve, because amateur padel has no umpire and four people with a stake in the answer. And swap ends when the board tells you to — after every odd game, and every six points of a tie-break — so a low sun or a draughty corner is shared instead of decisive.

Questions

How does scoring work in padel?
Padel borrows tennis’s ladder whole: the first point of a game is 15, the second 30, the third 40, and the fourth takes the game — unless both pairs reach 40. Six games with a two-game lead wins a set, so 6–4 is a set and 6–5 is not, and 6–6 goes to a tie-break. The server’s score is always called first, out loud, before the serve.

What is the difference between golden point and advantage?
At 40–40, golden point settles the game with a single rally: the next point wins it, and the receiving pair chooses which side receives the serve. Advantage is the classic rule — you need two points in a row, the first taking you to advantage and the second the game, and losing at advantage drops you back to deuce. Golden point keeps games inside a booking, which is why most amateur crews play it. Choose one before the first serve and the scoreboard follows it all night.

How does a padel tie-break work?
At 6–6 in games you play a tie-break to seven points, counted in plain numbers, and you must be two clear — so 7–5 finishes it and 7–6 means you play on. The first serve is one point long, then the serve changes every two points, and you change ends every six points. The set is recorded as 7–6, which is why a 7–6 set always means a tie-break was played.

Does it work offline, and will it keep the score if my screen locks?
Once the page has loaded it needs no connection at all — every calculation happens in your browser. It also asks for a screen wake lock where the browser offers one, so the phone stays awake through a rally and takes the lock back when you switch away and return. If the screen does lock or the tab closes, the state is saved as you go: reopen the page and you are back on the same point, mid-game or mid-tie-break.

Can it keep last week’s results?
No, and that is deliberate rather than a missing feature. This page remembers tonight only, in this one browser: clear the list, switch device or open a private window and it is gone. Keeping the record is what Rivals is for — log the match once in the app and it stays, feeding your crew’s ratings, the head-to-head records and a season board.

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Rivals is this scoreboard, with a memory

Score courtside in the app, offline, and the night does not end when you close the tab: every set feeds your crew’s ratings, the board and the head-to-head record you will be arguing about next week.

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