History

The watch saves every match and can restore it to the last point if it shuts down or runs flat mid-way.

Reach the list from the History row on the warm-up screen. Newest first.

What the list shows

Per row, the date and the result: the set scores from your point of view, then how it ended — won, lost, draw (only a football, handball or basketball match can end level), (ret.) for a retirement, (w.o.) for a walkover, abandoned, or still playing. A walkover shows no score, because it has none. The format is not in the list — it does not fit beside a date on a 192dp round screen, and it is in the detail view anyway.

Tap a row for the detail: result, format, start time, duration, games played. A doubles match says so there as well — it is the one row that tells two otherwise identical matches apart. Names you typed before the match are there too: the opponent, or in doubles your partner and the opponents.

For a training session the name of the sport and the duration stand where the result would be — Gym · 47 min — and in the detail the Kind row says which sport it was. That is what separates a round of golf from an hour in the gym a week later.

A match carries the sport too, which matters if you have set padel: padel is scored on the tennis ladder, so the format row reads the same for both and only this row tells them apart. Sessions recorded before the sport picker existed do not show the row at all — the watch never asked then, and nothing is invented after the fact.

Adding a result afterwards

A match nobody scored on the watch — a friendly on a beach, a league match written on paper — can still go in the history. The first row of the list is Add a result.

It asks what the warm-up screen asks, after the fact: Sport (a tap moves to the next sport the watch scores), Format, Match type, the Day (a tap goes one day further back, up to two weeks), when it Started, and the names. Then Add a set: tap You and Opponent and pick each number from a list — games in a tennis set, points in a game of badminton or volleyball, and for a match tiebreak its points.

Each set is checked against the format the moment you enter it. 6-5 is not a finished set, and neither is 21-20 in badminton, so Save does not appear under it — Not a finished set in this format does. A set a tiebreak decided — 7-6, or 4-3 in Fast4 — gets a third row, Tiebreak: pick the points of the side that lost the tiebreak, and the watch fills in the winner's, 7 to 5 or 8 to 6. It is optional; Not recorded leaves the tiebreak score out. Tap a set already in the list to change it; the sets after it are dropped, because they were entered against the old one. Save on the result itself appears once the match has a winner.

An entered result looks like any other match in the list. Its detail says Entered afterwards, and there is no Statistics row: there were no points to count. If you are connected to a club it is uploaded like a played match, with its set scores.

A retirement or a walkover is the How it ended row: a tap moves from Played out to Opponent retired to I retired. Whoever gave up loses, so Save appears at once. Enter the sets that were finished, then the one it stopped in — "6-3 2-1 ret." is a 6-3 set and a 2-1 set, and the 2-1 is allowed to stay unfinished. With no sets at all it is saved as a walkover. If the sets you entered already have a winner, nobody could have retired, and the screen says so instead of Save. Not on football, handball or basketball, where a game is stopped rather than given up.

Deleting

Two places, for two different moments:

• A match already in the list — open it and, at the bottom of the detail view, Delete match, then Delete for good.
• The match you are playing — the match menu's End match row, then Discard match. This throws it away instead of recording it, which is what a mis-started match deserves.

Both ask twice, because neither can be undone — but neither uses a pop-up, because a dialog on a watch screen is not something anyone reads.

If a match was interrupted

If the app starts with an unfinished match, that is the first thing it asks:

• Continue — you carry on exactly where it stopped.
• Do not continue — the match is closed as abandoned.

Either way the match is kept, with the score it reached. An abandoned match happened, and it is not a loss.

What your watch measured is kept too, up to about half a minute before the interruption. Heart rate, calories, steps and distance are written to the watch while you play, not only when the match ends, so a match the watch closed by itself keeps them. Continuing carries on from there.

Only one match can be in progress at a time: starting a new one closes any earlier unfinished one as abandoned.

How it saves

It does not save the score — it saves the list of points, and recomputes the score from it every time. That is why nothing can drift out of step, and why a fix to the rules reaches old matches too.

Every point reaches the disk before it reaches the screen. If the watch dies mid-match, you lose at most the point being written.

If the write fails anyway — a full disk being the realistic case — the app warns you once and scoring carries on. Losing the score because storage is full would be worse than an unsaved match.