Traditional Pickleball Scoring and Serving as a Flow Chart
This is a flow chart that explain scoring in Pickleball.
You can download a PDF version here.
The rules for scoring can be summarized preciously as follows:
Wining serving team: server switch sides and keep serving
Loosing serving team: if your partner has not served, let your partner serve. Otherwise SIDE OUT: service go to the opposing team, which will serve from the right side
Exception: For the very first rally in a game, the serving team only gets one serve. So SIDE OUT after loosing first rally.
Calling Out the Pickleball Score in Doubles
The score has three numbers, the serving team always calls out the score:
My team’s score
Your team’s score
My team is on either the first or the second serve