Pickleball Scoring Cheat Sheet

Every serve, out loud, in this order: your team's score – their team's score – server number .

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Doubles Scoring — One Page

If you forget to call the score, opponents can ask for it. If it's called wrong, either side can correct it before the return of serve.

When your team wins a rally while serving, you and your partner swap sides. When you lose the rally, you stay. That's the whole rule — the score tells you where to be.

Two servers per team, per turn (except the very first serve of the game):

The 0–0–2 start exists so the team that serves first doesn't get two turns before the other team has served at all — it's a fairness rule, not an exception.

Some tournaments and leagues (notably MLP) use rally scoring :

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