How padel scoring works
Padel borrows tennis scoring almost exactly. If you know tennis, you already know most of it — here are the essentials.
Points, games, sets
Within a game you score 15, 30, 40, then game — same as tennis. Win six games (by two) to take a set, and win two sets to win the match (best-of-three).
So a final score reads like "6-4, 7-5": two sets to love. A tie-break is played at 6-6 in a set.
The golden point
Padel's one big twist: at deuce (40-40) most pro events play a single sudden-death "golden point" rather than advantage. The receiving pair chooses which side it's played from. It makes deuces fast and tense — and matters for momentum.
It's always doubles
Professional padel is played in pairs — two against two. That's why our model and rankings treat the pair as the unit, not the individual. A team's strength is its pairing.