Courtovo
Match menu
During a match, open it with the back button or by swiping left to right. Both go to the same place; there are two because the button does not reach the app on every watch.
The menu's Back row, the back button or a left-to-right swipe returns you to the score. Three ways to the same place, and the row is there alongside the other two because a Galaxy Watch's side buttons belong to the system: back is a gesture here, and a gesture nobody was told about is not a way out. You cannot leave the app by accident during a match — that needs the menu's "End match" row.
What you can change
| Row | During a match |
|---|---|
| Back | Any time. Returns you to the score and changes nothing |
| I am the other side | Any time. Swaps which player the watch has as you — the fix if the bezel is adding points to your opponent. Named My side (left/right) instead when you have chosen Your side first |
| Format | Locked after the first point |
| Match type | Locked after the first point |
| First serve | Locked after the first point |
| Settings | Any time |
| End match | Opens the three ways a match can end |
Ending a match
The End match row opens its own screen, because these are the only things in the app you cannot simply tap your way back out of. Each row says what it does to the result:
| What it records | |
|---|---|
| End of the period → A break or The score stands | A format with halves or quarters: closes the one being played. A break follows, or the end of the match after the last. |
| Start the next period → Half 2, Overtime 1 … | During a break: the next period's kick-off, which restarts the countdown. |
| Final whistle → The score stands | Football, handball and basketball only: the match ends at the tally, won or drawn. |
| Opponent retired → I win | The opponent gave up. You win, at the score reached. |
| I retire → Opponent wins | You gave up. The opponent wins, at the score reached. |
| Not played out → Nobody won | Rain, an expired booking. The score is kept, nobody won. |
| Discard match | Deletes it. Asks a second time first. |
Whoever gives up loses — that is the sport's rule, not the app's, and the row spells out who wins so a wrong tap is hard to make.
A retirement keeps the score it stopped at, including the unfinished game: "6-0 1-0 ret." is a result, "ret." on its own is not. And it is a normal entry in the point list, so a swipe up takes it back like any point.
If you retire before a single point is played, that is a walkover — the list shows it as "won (w.o.)" or "lost (w.o.)", without a score, because there is none.
Once a match has been played out to a winner, only two rows remain — Match complete and Discard match. "Retired" and "nobody won" would both contradict the score you just played, so they are not offered.
Discarding is the one thing that cannot be undone. It deletes the match instead of recording it, which is what you want for a mis-started match — not for one that was actually played.
Why the format and the server lock
Because they are not display settings — they are inputs to the calculation. The app does not keep a score; it keeps the list of points and recalculates the score from it every time. Change who served first halfway through and every point already played would be re-evaluated: a different server in every game, and a different tiebreak rotation.
The match type is the third of them, and for the same reason: singles or doubles decides how many players the serve rotates through, so switching it mid-match would hand every game to somebody else.
So those rows stay visible but greyed, and the screen says they are fixed for the match. You can still see what you are playing — you just cannot change it.
Before the first point, during warm-up, both are freely adjustable.