Tennis is different from the other sports on this site because there is no season table to keep. A tournament opens with a draw of players, ends a week or two later with a single winner, and then another one starts somewhere else. So this section follows tournaments rather than a league: it shows the ones being played on the ATP and WTA tours, draw by draw, and keeps each finished tournament within reach for about two weeks. The scores come from ESPN's public data feed.
What the scores page shows
The tennis scores page opens on one draw of a tournament in play. When several tournaments are on court in the same week, a row of tabs across the top lists them, and each tab opens that tournament's own page. Underneath, a second row of buttons switches between the draws of the tournament: men's singles, women's singles, and the men's and women's doubles, depending on which tours are at the event. Three counters above the draw give the number of matches in the draw on screen, the number of draws the tournament has and the number of rounds listed.
Below the counters the draw runs round by round, from the qualifying rounds, when the tournament has them, up to the final. Each match is one small card, and it reads like this:
- Tag: Final once the match is over (the last round of a draw is also called Final, which is a different thing), Live while it is being played, or the scheduled day in US Eastern time before it starts.
- Seed: the small number beside a name is that player's seed. Unseeded players have none.
- Sets: one number per set, in the order the sets were played. A 7-6 set was decided by a tiebreak, but the page shows games, not the tiebreak score.
- Winner: the player who won the match is in bold.
- TBD: a place in a later round that has not been decided yet.
Following a player through the rounds
A draw is a record of who played whom, so the quickest way to follow a player is to look for the name in each round, starting with the earliest. A match in a later round is listed with its players as soon as both are known, and shows TBD until then. The page lists matches rather than drawing a bracket, so a player's path is the chain of rounds in which the name appears.
Finished tournaments keep the same layout. Under Recently finished, the draws of tournaments that ended in the past two weeks stay open, so the whole route to a title can still be read after the final.
How big a draw is, and how a match is scored
A Grand Slam singles draw has 128 players, so a champion has to win seven matches in a row, in rounds of 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4 and 2 players. In the 2026 Wimbledon men's draw, for example, 16 of the 128 entered through qualifying and 8 were wild cards. Smaller events have smaller draws, and qualifying adds rounds of its own, which is why the round counter changes from one tournament to the next.
Most matches are best of three sets. The exception is men's singles at the four Grand Slams, which are best of five. A set goes to the first player to win six games by a margin of two, and at six games all a tiebreak, first to seven points by two, settles it. In a deciding set at a Grand Slam, 6-6 brings a longer tiebreak, first to 10 points by two. The Australian Open has used it since 2019, and the Grand Slam Board announced the same rule for all four majors on 16 March 2022.
Seeds, tours and ranking points
Tournaments seed players by their rankings, and the draw is arranged so that the top two seeds sit in opposite halves and can only meet in the final. At the Grand Slams, 32 of the 128 singles players are seeded.
The ATP runs the men's tour and the WTA the women's, and each tiers its events by what the singles champion earns: 2,000 ranking points at a Grand Slam, 1,000 at the ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 events, and 500 or 250 at the two levels below. Points count for 52 weeks and then drop off, so a ranking is a rolling year of results rather than a season total. The scores pages report the matches and do not show rankings or points.
Related reading
- Final set tiebreak rules at the Grand Slams: the rule at each major since 2000 and how often a deciding set reaches 6-6.
- How often the top seed wins a Grand Slam: the seed of every champion, and the unseeded winners.
- Most Grand Slam titles: the men's and women's lists, with the Open Era counted separately.
The tennis blog collects the rest, and the tennis hub links every page of the section. Nothing on the scores pages is simulated or predicted, because a draw is a record of matches played and scheduled. How the simulators work for the leagues that have one is explained on the methodology page.
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