How to Keep Score in Tennis

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Lincoln Ward. I'm a USPTA certified teaching pro here in Austin, Texas with Lone Star Tennis Company. Today we're going to be talking about how to keep score in tennis. There are two general ways to keep score. No-ad scoring and regular scoring. In the juniors they do a lot of no-ad scoring. It's the first to win four points. So basically, one, two, three, four, and you win the game. Now in normal, regular scoring that they use in the pros, they go by fifteen, thirty, forty, game. They still use four points, but you have to win by two. So, if a server is winning the first point, it would be fifteen to zero, or fifteen love. If the server wins the second point, it's thirty love. Once the receiver wins a point, their score is called second. So, it'd be thirty fifteen. Or thirty all when the score is tied. When the score gets to forty thirty, the next point, if it's won by the receiver, it becomes forty all or deuce. Deuce is a term they use to generally mean two points to win the game. The next point won would be their advantage. So, if the server were to win the next point, it'd be ad-in, or server's advantage. If the receiver won the next point, it'd be ad-out, or receiver's advantage. Once the next point is won, then that's the game. If the advantage goes to the server and the receiver wins the next point, it goes back to deuce and you have to go through the whole affair again. That's how to keep serve with tennis. Thank you very much."