Free fantasy tennis — snake-draft leagues, salary-cap contests, full ATP & WTA coverage.
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ATP Fantasy is the official ATP men's tour pick-and-rank game. The Drop Shot is a free fantasy tennis platform covering both ATP and WTA, with snake-draft leagues, salary-cap contests, and commissioner-customizable scoring. Here's how they compare feature by feature.
What makes us different
| Feature | The Drop Shot | ATP Fantasy |
|---|---|---|
| Tours covered | ATP + WTA (full coverage of both tours) | ATP only |
| Game format | Snake-draft season-long leagues + salary-cap contests | Pick-and-rank with a 100-credit budget |
| Scoring rules | Commissioner controls every scoring rule per league | Fixed official scoring |
Where The Drop Shot wins
ATP Fantasy is a pick-and-rank format — every player picks the same 8-player team from a 100-credit pool, with bonus-ball captain picks per swing. Everyone competes against a global leaderboard. The Drop Shot's leagues are snake drafts — your team is your team, drafted live against your friends in a real-time room with chat, pick queues, and pick countdowns. Different games entirely — ATP Fantasy is closer to FPL's pick-the-best-XI feel; The Drop Shot is closer to fantasy football's manager-vs-manager experience.
ATP Fantasy stops at the men's tour. The Drop Shot scores every ATP and WTA match — Grand Slams, Masters, ATP/WTA 500 and 250 — with live point-by-point data, draws, brackets, and player stats. If you follow Sabalenka, Swiatek, Gauff, and Andreeva as closely as Sinner and Alcaraz, that's a meaningful coverage gap.
ATP Fantasy's scoring is set by the tour and applied uniformly to every player. On The Drop Shot, the commissioner of every league controls the scoring table — round-by-round point values, bonus categories (aces, upsets, breaks of serve, tournament-without-loss), per-tournament-level weights, and head-to-head matchup bonuses. Default templates ship for casual leagues; custom dials for the obsessives.
ATP Fantasy shows pick percentages and some live position data. The Drop Shot ships data-driven draft projections — every available player gets an expected-points score tuned to your league's scoring config, updated live as picks come in. Plus a full live-prediction stack on every match — live point, game, and match predictions — alongside live point-by-point scoring and historical performance + surface splits + head-to-head data in the draft room.
ATP Fantasy doesn't have salary-cap contests — it's the pick-and-rank format only. The Drop Shot runs salary-cap contests as a parallel format alongside snake-draft leagues: build a roster within a fixed budget for a single tournament or a multi-event swing, with our data-driven pricing model weighting surface history, tournament identity, recent form, and ranking. Pick the format that fits your weekend.
Feature matrix
| Feature | Drop Shot | ATP Fantasy |
|---|---|---|
| Free to play | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ | ✗ |
| Real-time multi-manager draft | ✓ | ✗ |
| Built-in chat + pick queues | ✓ | ✗ |
| Private leagues with friends | ✓ | ✓ |
| Globally available | ✓ | ✓ |
| Player + tournament About sections | ✓ | ✗ |
| Daily tournament recaps | ✓ | ✗ |
| Match recaps + previews | ✓ | ✗ |
| Live tournament news timeline | ✓ | ✗ |
| Weekly player season briefings | ✓ | ✗ |
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ATP Fantasy alternative
ATP Fantasy is fine if you only follow the men's tour and want a casual pick-and-rank game. The Drop Shot adds WTA coverage, snake-draft season-long leagues against friends, salary-cap contests, and commissioner-configurable scoring — all free.
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