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Reading the group standings table in a padel tournament

Padel counts score, not goals. What each column means, and how the fixtures below it are grouped.

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Written by Maab Saleem

The padel standings table is on the Results tab. It has six columns, and none of them counts goals.

Finding the table

  1. Open the tournament and select Results.

    The Results tab for a padel tournament, showing the Group A standings for four pairs.

  2. Select Group Phase. Once every group match has a score, the tab opens on the knockout phase instead.

  3. Read the table. One row per pair.

    The padel standings table with its column heading row outlined: PLD, SCORE, W, D, L and PTS.

  4. Open Fixtures under the table. Padel matches are grouped by round.

    The Fixtures list under the padel standings, grouped under Round 1 and Round 2 headings.

What the columns mean

  • PLD - matches played.

  • SCORE - the points the pair won across those matches.

  • W, D, L - won, drawn, lost.

  • PTS - standings points. This is what the table is sorted on.

SCORE and PTS are two different things. SCORE is how much the pair scored on court. PTS is what a result is worth in the table, and you set that yourself: Win points, Loss points and Draw points in Configuration.

What you will see

On Swiss, Americano, Mexicano and King of the Court, matches in one round share a kick-off time and each carries a court number. That is why the fixture list is grouped: a round is everything played at once, across the courts you have.

Round Robin groups the same way, but times it differently

A Round Robin tournament lists its fixtures under the same ROUND headings. Its matches do not start together.

Every match has its own kick-off time, one match duration after the last. So a round here is a block of matches played one after another. Gap between rounds (minutes) in Configuration changes nothing on this format.

The standings table above the fixtures reads exactly the same way, whichever format you run.

If it does not work

  • Every number is zero. No match has a score yet.

  • Two pairs have the same PTS but a different order. SCORE separates them.

  • PTS does not match what you expected. Check Win points, Loss points and Draw points in Configuration. A draw is worth 2 by default, not 1.

  • The matches of a round start at different times. This is a Round Robin tournament - see Round Robin groups the same way, but times it differently.

  • You expected GF, GA and GD. Those are the football columns - see "Reading the group standings table in a football tournament".

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