Add and No-add scoring?

Question

What is the difference between add and no-add scoring in tennis?

Answer 1

In ad scoring you basically have to win by 2 points when the score gets to 40-40.  You keep going until someone wins by two points.

No-ad scoring is usually used when you want the set to move faster so you don't get held up in a long drawn out deuce.  The way it worked for my high school is that the receiving side would choose which side ( deuce or advantage court ) they wanted to receive in.  That point would then decide the game.

Answer 2

In add scoring, if it is 40-40 and you win the next point it is your advantage. If you win the next point you win the game, if you lose the next point the game goes back to deuce.

In no add scoring, if the score is 40-40 the person who wins the next point wins the game.

Answer 3

In tennis, ad or no-ad stands for advantage or no-advantage.

You know how the scoring goes from zero points (0) to 1 point (15), 2 points (30), three points (40), and whoever wins the next point wins a game?

Well in ad or advantage scoring when the score is deuce (meaning both players have 3 points, 40-40, or 40-all), it is basically a win-by-two rule. When a person gets the next point, they have the advantage (ad-40) as they only need one more point to win the game. If the other team wins the next point, then the score goes back to deuce (40-40,  called deuce 2) and the win-by-two rule is still applied until someone wins the advantage point and the game point. This is usually the way the game is played in TOURNAMENTS and the PROFESSIONAL TOUR. The matches are usually longer because a game may go to deuce 5, 10, 20 or more!

Like it was said, in High School teams the matches are played with no-ad scoring so they take less time. This means that when it is deuce (40-40, 40-all) whoever wins the next point wins the game.

Ad and no-ad scoring only affects points at deuce. Besides that, NOTHING in the game changes and the rest of the scoring is the same.

Also note that in a tiebreaker (when the set score is 6-6), the win-by-two rule applies whether you are playing ad or no-ad scoring.

~JSM~

Answer 4

ad is basically you have another chance. You play until you get two ad ins or two ad outs. with no ad, you play one point after 40-40 and whoever wins wins the game.

Answer 5

They are all wrong. No-add scoring is 1, 2, 3, game. There is no 15, 30, 40 scoring. Any game that reaches 3 points all (3-3). The winner of the next point wins the game. The reciever of the serve gets to choose which court, ad court or deuce court the final point will be served from.

Answer 6

Add is when you are serving to the left side of the court and No-add is when you are serving to the right side of the court (or just hitting the ball to either side not just serving.)

Answer 7

Add scoring means you have to win the game by at least 2 points.  No-add scoring means when the score is Deuce (40-40), the next point wins.  Typically if no-add scoring is used, the returner gets to choose which side he/she'd like to return from when the score is Deuce.  No-ad scoring is done to speed up matches since the longest any game can be is 7 points, whereas an Ad-scoring game could theoretically last forever.