Match Scoring

• A match is over when a player or team has won the agreed upon number of sets. Amateur matches are best-of-three, meaning the first player to capture two sets is the winner. More accomplished players also compete in best-of-five sets, needing three to win.
  
  

Set Scoring

• A set is over when someone wins six games, but she must win by at least two games. If a set goes to six games apiece, a tiebreaker game is played, with scoring that differs from normal games.
  
  

Normal game scoring

• Games are scored to four points, but must be won by a margin of two. A player who scores one point is given a score of 15; the next point is 30, the next 40, and then game. If the game goes to 40-40, the next point to reach a margin of two is called an advantage. If an advantage is won, then lost, the game returns to 40-40.
  
  

Terminology

• A score of 0 is called "love." A score of 40-40 is called "deuce."
  
  

Tiebreaker Games

• A tiebreaker game is played to seven, with a minimum winning margin of two. Scores are called sequentially, unlike in a normal game.
  
  

Calling The Score

• The server is responsible for calling the game score before each point, and for calling the set score before the start of the game. She calls her own score first. For example, if she has one point and her opponent has none, she calls "15-love." If she has one point and her opponent has three, she calls "15-40."