LivePlayScore brings you table tennis live scores from WTT events, the ITTF World Championships, the World Cup and the Olympics, 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.

Table tennis is one of the fastest sports in the world, and one of the most global. Top events run in China, Japan, Singapore, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, often with several tables in play at once. If you can't watch, you still want to know when your player is fighting back or serving for the match. 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, 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 at a glance whether a match has been one-sided or close all the way.

Tap any match for more detail:

• Game-by-game scores: every completed game, such as 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 13-11.
• Current game: the live point score, including deuce games that go past 11.
• 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 two games up, the game scores usually tell the story, and a couple of lost deuce games is often the reason.

If you're new to the sport, the scoreboard is easy to read once you know the basics.

Each game goes to 11 points, and a player has to win by two. At 10-10, the game goes to deuce and carries on until someone leads by two, so scores like 12-10 or 15-13 are common.

Matches are played as best of five or best of seven games, depending on the event and the round. Major singles events usually use best of seven in the later rounds.

Serve changes every two points. Once a game reaches 10-10, it changes after every point, which is why deuce games feel so tense. Players also switch ends after each game, and at 5 points in the deciding game.

Most major tournaments have up to five events:

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

WTT events. World Table Tennis runs the main professional circuit. At the top are the Grand Smashes, such as Singapore Smash and China Smash, followed by WTT Champions, Star Contender and Contender events. The season ends with the WTT Finals for the best players of the year.

ITTF championships. The ITTF World Championships, including the individual and team editions, and the ITTF World Cup. These are among the most prestigious titles in the sport. We also follow continental championships in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Olympic table tennis. Singles, mixed doubles and team events at the Olympic Games. Our Olympic table tennis live scores page has its own coverage for the Games.

Club leagues. Strong club competitions such as Germany's Bundesliga, the Chinese Super League and Japan's T.League, where many of the world's best players compete between international events.

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

Our scores come from a professional real-time table tennis 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:

• Umpire corrections. Now and then an umpire corrects a point after checking with the other official. If that happens, 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.
• Team matches. In team events, a tie is made up of several individual matches. We show each match and the overall tie score, so you know which team is ahead.

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 two games up in a best-of-seven match is strong, but comebacks happen all the time. A match isn't over until someone wins four.

Deuce games. Winning a game at 12-10 or 14-12 can give a player a real lift. A player who keeps losing deuce games is often struggling with nerves.

Serve. Because serve changes every two points, check who's serving at 9-9 or 10-10. A strong server has a small but real advantage at those moments.

Timeouts. Each player can take one timeout per match. A player who uses it early in a game is usually trying to stop a run of points.

In the early rounds of a WTT event or a World Championships, there can be many tables in play 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.

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