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Official · The Padel Invitational · Sat 15 & Sun 16 Aug 2026

The four formats in play this weekend, exactly as the umpire's iPad, the scoreboards and the broadcast graphics are configured. Every match's format is fixed when the match is created and travels with it, so a match in progress always finishes under the rules it started on. Print this page for the umpires' table — it fits one A4 sheet.

Saturday · Midday

Celebrity 1 Point Padel

One point decides the match
  • Draw: 16 teams (celebrity + pro), single elimination, 15 matches — 8 / 4 / 2 / 1.
  • Match: a single rally. Win it, win the match.
  • Matches are played strictly in draw order, M1 → M15; the umpire taps the winning team and the next round fills in by itself.
  • Allow roughly 4 minutes per match including the post-match chat — about an hour end to end.
Scored in the match centre like every other match; the live bracket, score bug and vertical board follow along. Umpire preset: One point decides it.
Saturday · Competition

Premier Padel Invitational

One set to 6 · Star Point
  • Match: a single set. First to 6 games, win by 2.
  • Tiebreak at 6–6: first to 7 points, win by 2. Set recorded 7–6.
  • Game: 0 / 15 / 30 / 40, then the Star Point deuce.
  • Star Point: at 40–40 play advantage — win your advantage and the game is yours, lose it and it's back to deuce. That runs twice; the third deuce is a single decisive point.
  • Receiving team chooses the side the decisive point is played to.
Boards show SP on the decisive point (same treatment as a golden point). Umpire preset: One set to 6 · star point · TB at 6-6.
Sunday · Exhibition

PP Exhibition

Super tiebreak to 10 · Sudden death
  • Match: one super tiebreak, live from the first point. No games, no sets.
  • First to 10 points wins — no win-by-2. At 9–9 the next point takes it.
  • Serve: tiebreak rotation — change of serve after point 1, then every 2 points.
  • Every rally scores; there is no advantage scoring anywhere in this format.
Scoreboards hide the set columns and show the running points; the result strap reads e.g. 10–7. Umpire preset: Super tiebreak to 10 · sudden death.
Sunday · Knockout, 2:00–3:55 pm

The Padel Invitational Finals

Race to 3 points · Final: race to 7
  • Draw: 32-slot single elimination — R32, R16, QF, SF, Final. Seeds 1 and 2 have byes into the R16, so 14 matches are played in the first round.
  • R32 → Semifinals: first to 3 rally points, sudden death at 2–2 (no win-by-2). Matches are slotted every 4 minutes.
  • The Final: first to 7 rally points, sudden death at 6–6.
  • Serve changes after point 1, then every 2 points, as in a tiebreak.
Winners advance on the live bracket automatically as each result is filed. Umpire presets: Race to 3 points · Race to 7 points (the Final is created for you).

Applies to every format

  • Rally point scoring throughout — every rally is a point, served or not.
  • Server rotation: serve alternates between teams each game; within a team the two partners alternate each time the serve comes back around.
  • Decisive points (Star Point, sudden death): the receiving team chooses which side it is played to.
  • The umpire's board is the record. Everything on air — TV scoreboard, score bug, bracket, result strap — mirrors it live.
  • Wrong server? The umpire can switch the serving partner without disturbing the score.
  • No format changes mid-match. A correction means restarting the match on the correct format.

Standard Premier Padel rules — best of 3 sets, first to 6 games, tiebreak to 7 at 6–6, golden point at 40–40 — remain available for ad-hoc matches, but no scheduled match this weekend is played to them.