Free fantasy tennis — snake-draft leagues, salary-cap contests, full ATP & WTA coverage.
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DraftKings runs paid daily fantasy tennis on Grand Slams and the biggest Masters with a generic DFS lineup builder reused from football. The Drop Shot is free, built specifically for tennis, and runs both snake-draft season-long leagues AND salary-cap tournament-long and season-long contests across every tour level — Grand Slams, Masters, ATP and WTA 500s and 250s — with pre-match and live point-by-point match predictions on every match. Build a team. Follow them from the Round of 128 to the Final.
What makes us different
| Feature | The Drop Shot | DraftKings |
|---|---|---|
| Tournament coverage | Every tour level: Grand Slams, Masters, ATP and WTA 500s and 250s | Mostly Slams and the biggest Masters |
| Format options | Snake-draft season-long leagues AND salary-cap tournament-long and season-long contests | Salary-cap DFS lineups only |
| Live match predictions | Pre-match plus live point-by-point — win probability updates every rally | Generic box-score updates, no live predictions |
| Entry fees | Free (no entry fees, no cash gating) | Paid contests with cash entries |
Where The Drop Shot wins
Every DraftKings tennis contest has a cash entry fee — that's their business model. The Drop Shot is 100% free. No paid tiers, no premium features behind a paywall, no entry fees on any contest. You can draft a season-long team, enter a salary-cap contest, and follow live scores without ever providing a credit card.
DraftKings only runs the salary-cap DFS format — you build a one-off lineup for each tournament. The Drop Shot runs BOTH formats: salary-cap contests (similar to DraftKings) AND snake-draft season-long leagues against your friends, where you draft a team once and manage it through the entire ATP and WTA calendar with waivers between events.
DraftKings's tennis is a small vertical that reuses their generic DFS lineup builder from football, basketball, and golf. Tennis-specific concepts — surface specialty, head-to-head history, round-by-round bracket progression, point-by-point scoring — don't have first-class support. The Drop Shot is built from the ground up for tennis: draws, brackets, surface splits, H2H records, predictive models on every match, and tennis-native scoring categories.
DraftKings updates scoring at match-end. The Drop Shot streams point-by-point scoring with live point predictions, live game predictions, and live match predictions from our predictive models — you see your fantasy score swing as the rally unfolds rather than waiting for the box score. Match pages carry set-by-set breakdowns, point-by-point flow, and live predicted outcomes throughout every live match.
DraftKings's daily fantasy contests are restricted by US gambling regulations to specific states (and not available at all in many countries). The Drop Shot is free fantasy with no cash prizes, so it's globally available wherever Google works. Play with friends in another country without restrictions.
Feature matrix
| Feature | Drop Shot | DraftKings |
|---|---|---|
| Free to play (no entry fees) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Covers ATP tour | ✓ | ✓ |
| Covers WTA tour | ✓ | ✓ |
| Season-long snake-draft leagues | ✓ | ✗ |
| Salary-cap contests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live point-by-point scoring | ✓ | ✗ |
| Predictive models on every match | ✓ | ✗ |
| Live tournament winner predictions | ✓ | ✗ |
| Commissioner-customizable scoring | ✓ | — |
| Private leagues with friends | ✓ | ✗ |
| Built specifically for tennis | ✓ | ✗ |
| Globally available | ✓ | varies (gambling regs) |
| Player + tournament About sections | ✓ | ✗ |
| Daily tournament recaps | ✓ | ✗ |
| Match recaps + previews | ✓ | ✗ |
| Live tournament news timeline | ✓ | ✗ |
| Weekly player season briefings | ✓ | ✗ |
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