LivePlayScore brings you badminton live scores from the BWF World Tour, the World Championships, the Olympics and the big team events, updated point by point. Game scores, the current point score, and who's serving appear on this page as each rally is played. It's free, and you don't need an account.

Badminton is fast, but its tournaments are spread across the whole globe. A Super 1000 event in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, or Beijing can run while much of the world is asleep, and early rounds often have a dozen courts in play at once. If you can't watch, you still want to know when your player is serving for the match or saving game points at 20-all. This page is built for that: open it, find your match, and you know exactly where it stands.

Each live match shows the players or pairs, the event (singles, doubles, or mixed), the games won, the score in the current game, and a marker for who's serving. Completed games are listed next to it, so you can see whether a match has been one-sided or close.

Tap any match for more detail:

• Game-by-game scores: every completed game, such as 21-17, 19-21, 21-15.
• Current game: the live point score, including extended games that go past 21.
• Match duration: how long the match has been running, useful for spotting a long, tiring battle.
• Head-to-head: past meetings between the players, where available.

If you only need the result, the scoreboard gives you that. If you want to know how a player lost from a game up, the game scores usually tell the story, and it's often a run of points in the middle of the second game.

If you're new to badminton, the scoreboard is easy to follow once you know the basics.

A match is played as best of three games. Each game goes to 21 points, and every rally wins a point, no matter who served. A player or pair has to win by two, so a game can finish 22-20 or 24-22. If it reaches 29-29, the next point wins, so the highest possible game score is 30-29.

There's a short break when the leading side reaches 11 points in each game, and a slightly longer one between games. Players also change ends after each game, and again at 11 in the deciding game, which can matter in halls where the air conditioning affects the shuttle.

There are five events at most major tournaments:

• Men's singles
• Women's singles
• Men's doubles
• Women's doubles
• Mixed doubles

BWF World Tour. The main professional circuit, graded by level. The Super 1000 events, including the All England Open, the Indonesia Open, the China Open and the Malaysia Open, are the biggest. Below them are the Super 750, 500 and 300 events, and the season ends with the BWF World Tour Finals for the top players of the year.

Championships and major events. The BWF World Championships, Olympic badminton, and continental events such as the Asian Games, the Asian Championships, and the European Championships.

Team events. The Thomas Cup for men's teams, the Uber Cup for women's teams and the Sudirman Cup for mixed teams. These have a different feel from individual events, with whole nations behind each tie.

For all fixtures, results and player pages in one place, visit our badminton fixtures and results hub.

Our scores come from a professional real-time badminton data feed, the kind used by broadcasters and sports apps. The page updates by itself during play, so you don't need to keep refreshing.

A few situations can make a score look odd for a moment. Here's how we handle them:

• Instant review. At bigger events, players can challenge a line call. If the call is overturned, the point is changed, and the score updates to match the final decision.
• Retirements and walkovers. If a player stops mid-match through injury, it's shown as a retirement with the score at that moment. If a player withdraws before the match, it's shown as a walkover.
• Long games. A game doesn't end at 21 if the lead is only one point. Scores like 25-23 are normal, and we show every point until the game is won.
• Delays. Matches are sometimes held up by injuries, floor problems, or schedule overruns on busy days. Delays are clearly shown rather than the match just disappearing from the list.

If you ever see a score that doesn't match what's on TV, let us know through our contact page. Reader reports have helped us catch mistakes, and we'd rather fix them fast.

If you're checking in partway through, a few details tell you most of the story:

Games won. Being a game up is an advantage, but comebacks happen often in badminton. A match isn't over until someone wins two games.

The score at 11. The side leading at the mid-game break wins the game more often than not, but a strong run after the interval can change that.

Game points saved. A player who saves several game points at 20-18 or 20-19 often carries that momentum into the next game.

Match length. A singles match running past 80 or 90 minutes is a real test of fitness. The fresher player often takes the deciding game.

In the early rounds of a big tournament, there can be matches running on several courts at the same time, across all five events. The scoreboard groups matches by tournament and puts live matches first, followed by upcoming matches and completed results, so you can find your player quickly.

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