Worked Example: Tennis — Best-of-3 Sets Tournament
Scenario
A tennis club runs a doubles tournament with traditional tennis scoring: best-of-3 sets, 6 games per set, tiebreak at 6–6 (to 7 points, win by 2), and a super tiebreak (first to 10, win by 2) replacing the deciding third set. No-advantage deuce scoring keeps matches moving.
Step 1: Tournament Setup
- New Tournament → Tennis
- Name: “Summer Tennis Open”, Sport: Tennis
- Tennis tournaments lock the scoring to sets — no Americano/Mexicano option appears
Step 2: Configure Scoring
When creating rounds or draws, the scoring config controls the match format:
| Setting | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| System | Sets | Traditional tennis scoring |
| Games / set | 6 | First to 6 games, win by 2 (or tiebreak at 6–6) |
| Sets to win | 2 | Best-of-3 (first to 2 sets wins) |
| Tiebreak | On | At 6–6, play a 7-point tiebreak (win by 2) |
| Advantage | Off | No-advantage: next point after deuce wins the game |
| Super tiebreak | On | At 1 set all, play a 10-point super tiebreak instead of a full 3rd set |
Step 3: Create a Knockout Draw
- Draws → New Draw → Straight Bracket
- Name: “Doubles Championship”
- Format: Doubles, Fixed teams
- Knockout scoring: Inherits the tennis config above
- Use the 3-step wizard to select 8 teams and assign bracket positions
Step 4: Match Scoring Flow
Here is how a typical match is scored — Team A vs Team B:
Set 1
- Games go to 6–4 for Team A. No tiebreak needed.
- Set score: Team A 1 – 0 Team B
Set 2
- Games reach 6–6 → tiebreak triggers automatically
- Tiebreak score: Team B wins 7–5
- Set score: 1 set all
Deciding Set (Super Tiebreak)
- Instead of a full third set, a super tiebreak to 10 is played
- Team A wins 10–8
- Final: Team A wins 2–1 (6-4, 6-7, 10-8)
Step 5: Standings Display
For knockout draws, the bracket diagram shows per-match results. For round-robin/league formats with tennis scoring, standings show:
| Team | Matches W/L | Sets W/L | Games W/L |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team A | 3–0 | 6–1 | 40–22 |
| Team B | 2–1 | 5–3 | 38–30 |
| Team C | 1–2 | 3–5 | 30–38 |
Fixed-Length Sets (Alternative)
Set End condition to Total = when a set should be a fixed length rather than a race to a number of games — useful when courts are booked in slots.
- Total games: how many games are played (e.g. 6). All of them are played — a lead never ends the set early, so 4–0 carries on and can finish 4–2. The side with more games takes the set.
- Tiebreak: decides a level set. It defaults to the halfway score (3–3 for a 6-game set), which is the only score a tie can reach.
- Sets, Advantage and Super tiebreak work exactly as they do for a standard set — a fixed-length set can still be best-of-3.
This is the format to pick when courts are booked in slots, or when you want the margin to count: a set stopped at 4–0 hides how one-sided it was, and pool standings ranked on games difference read that margin.
Odd totals work too. “Total = 5” can never end level, so its tiebreak at 2–2 becomes the 5th game and the set finishes 3–2 in exactly five. Breaking a tie costs one extra game, so it is the even totals that can run to one more (“Total = 6” tied at 3–3 goes to a 7th tiebreak game, ending 4–3).