page_title: Tennis scoring system
hierarchical_section_title: Tennis scoring system
caption_attribution_description: Brezhoneg: Krogad gounezet gant Andy Roddick war ar skor 6-0 6-4. English: Score during Andy Roddick vs Cyril Saulnier at the start of the third set. A tennis scoreboard. Andy Roddick has won the first two sets. Français&#160;: Tableau du pointage. മലയാളം: Scoreboard. Polski: Elektroniczna tablica do wyświetlania wyników. Português: Placar eletrônico em uma partida de tênis. Simple English: Scoreboard. Slovenčina: Tabuľa so skóre. Svenska: Setsiffror i en match mellan Andy Roddick och Cyril Saulnier. Українська: Табло.
context_page_description: The tennis scoring system is a way to keep track of tennis matches. Some tennis matches are played as part of a tournament. The great majority are organised as a single-elimination tournament, with competitors being eliminated after a single loss, and the overall winner being the last competitor without a loss. Optimally, such tournaments have a number of competitors equal to a power of two in order to fully fill out a single elimination bracket. In many professional and top-level amateur events, the brackets are seeded according to a recognised ranking system, in order to keep the best players in the field from facing each other until as late in the tournament as possible; additionally, if byes are necessary because of a less-than-full bracket, those byes in the first round are usually given to the highest-seeded competitors.
  A tennis match is composed of points, games, and sets. A set consists of a number of games, which in turn each consist of points. A set is won by the first side to win 6 games, with a margin of at least 2 games over the other side. If the set is tied at six games each, a tie-break is usually played to decide the set.
context_section_description: The tennis scoring system is a way to keep track of tennis matches (including pick-up games). Some tennis matches are played as part of a tournament. (Tournaments may have various categories, such as singles and doubles.) The great majority are organised as a single-elimination tournament, with competitors being eliminated after a single loss, and the overall winner being the last competitor without a loss. Optimally, such tournaments have a number of competitors equal to a power of two in order to fully fill out a single elimination bracket. In many professional and top-level amateur events, the brackets are seeded according to a recognised ranking system, in order to keep the best players in the field from facing each other until as late in the tournament as possible; additionally, if byes are necessary because of a less-than-full bracket, those byes in the first round are usually given to the highest-seeded competitors.
  A tennis match is composed of points, games, and sets. A set consists of a number of games (a minimum of six), which in turn each consist of points. A set is won by the first side to win 6 games, with a margin of at least 2 games over the other side (e.g. 6–3 or 7–5). If the set is tied at six games each, a tie-break is usually played to decide the set. A match is won when a player or a doubles team has won the majority of the prescribed number of sets. Matches employ either a best-of-three (first to two sets wins) or best-of-five (first to three sets wins) set format. The best-of-five set format is usually only used in the men's singles or doubles matches at Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches.
caption: The Mens Final score for the 2005 singles taken place in San Jose at the SAP Open. The winner was Andy Roddick and the runner-up was Cyril Saulnier.
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