A Doubles score has two sides, but the match has four people. The team wins the point while one player serves, another hits the winner and someone else may make the error that changes the game.
Match Update gives Singles and Doubles their own workspaces, so the different rosters, formats and histories stay clear without making either experience feel secondary.
Start with the complete team.
Choose the tracked player, partner and two opponents when preparing the match. Match Update keeps those four identities with the match and follows the individual service order as play moves between games and tiebreaks.
When this helps
Use the Doubles workspace when you want a quick team score during play, but still need to remember who served, who partnered with whom and how each player contributed after the match.
Score the team. Keep the individual detail.
Basic scoring still takes one tap for the team that won the point. With Advanced Point Tracking, aces and double faults follow the active server automatically. For winners, forced errors and unforced errors, you can identify the player who performed the action.
Let followers see all four players.
The follower court widens for Doubles and places four rackets around the net. Surname labels identify each player, the tennis ball marks the server and the large in-court score keeps the point easy to read from a distance.
Sharing remains private and read-only for followers. One authoritative device scores the active match, and remote updates depend on the scoring device, network and iCloud availability.
Keep Singles and Doubles histories clear.
Completed Doubles matches build their own player, partner and opponent history. With complete advanced attribution, match statistics can also show how each of the four participants served, returned, attacked and managed errors.
See who shaped the match.
The four-player statistics card opens a separate view of each participant’s service and recorded outcomes. When that evidence gives one or more players a positive best impact score, Match Update marks the MVP with a star. If the strongest players remain exactly tied after the performance tie-breakers, they share the recognition as co-MVPs.
MVP is not awarded automatically. If nobody has a positive impact score, the match has no MVP. Match Update also avoids inventing missing detail: a forced error belongs to the player who committed it, without guessing which opponent caused it or claiming a complete individual points-won total.
You can move between Singles and Doubles without mixing their contacts, formats, matches or statistics. Each way of playing keeps its own complete story.