Common questions about fantasy tennis on The Drop Shot — what fantasy tennis is, how leagues and salary-cap contests work, how scoring is calculated, what tournaments are covered, and how The Drop Shot compares to ATP Fantasy, DraftKings, FanSlam, and Tweener. Every question is grouped by topic (Basics, Leagues, Salary-cap contests, Tournaments and waivers, Scoring, Comparison) and answered in full below.
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Last updated: Jun 10, 2026
Fantasy tennis is a game where you draft a roster of professional ATP and WTA players and earn points based on their real-world match results — wins, round progressions, upsets, aces, breaks of serve, and tournament titles all count. On The Drop Shot you can play two distinct formats: snake-draft season-long leagues against friends or the public (your roster carries through every tournament in the league's schedule, with waivers between events and customizable scoring) or salary-cap contests against the wider field (build a lineup under a fixed budget for a single tournament or a multi-tournament block). Both formats score from the same engine — real ATP and WTA match results, updated point-by-point — and both are free to play.
Yes — The Drop Shot is completely free. Create an account, start or join a league, draft your team, and compete all season at no cost.
Absolutely. Live scores, tournament brackets, and player rankings are all available without signing up. Creating a free account unlocks the full platform: fantasy leagues, snake drafts, salary-cap contests, league and global message boards, the ability to favorite matches and players to follow them through the season, and access to our predictive models for individual matches and point-by-point outcomes.
Yes — every player profile carries filterable career stats. Slice any player's record by surface (hard, clay, grass), tournament, year, or opponent rank (top 10, top 32, top 64, etc.), and toggle the granularity between match, set, point, or game level. Answers questions like 'how does Sinner do on clay against top-10 opponents?' or 'what's Swiatek's set-level serve hold rate at the Grand Slams since 2022?' without leaving the player page.
Every match ships a pre-match prediction and live point + game + match win-probability that updates rally-by-rally. We publish our hit-rate openly: the Prediction Accuracy dashboard at /predictions/accuracy tracks the model's accuracy against Vegas closing lines by surface, tour, and round, with a since-date filter. The model beats Vegas across most slices — and on the ones it doesn't, we say so.
Daily tournament recaps are AI-written summaries published each day a tournament is in progress. Every Drop Shot tournament page carries the latest day's recap covering winners, standout upsets, advancing seedings, and notable stat performances from that day's matches. Recaps update once a day, the morning after the previous day's play concludes.
Yes. The Drop Shot publishes AI-written previews before notable matches and recaps after they complete. Previews appear on the match page before play begins and cover player form, head-to-head history, and surface context. Recaps are published after the match finishes with a play-by-play summary, key stats, and the significance of the result in the tournament context.
Player profiles and tournament pages each include an About section with long-form biographical writing. Player About sections cover career narrative, surface specialty, notable achievements, current form, and recent injury or return status. Tournament About sections cover the event's history, significance on the tennis calendar, draw composition, and notable storylines for that year's edition.
Live tournament winner predictions show each player's win probability to reach every round of the tournament (R128 through Final). Per-round reach odds are published before the tournament starts and re-condition after every completed match. The odds update every three hours during the tournament and reflect the model's current assessment of each player's path to the title. The Predictions tab on every tournament profile carries the full grid.
Each league holds a live snake draft where managers take turns picking players in real time. Draft order reverses each round (snake format), so every team gets a fair shot at top talent. The draft room ships every analytics tool you'd reach for — live draft projections, Average Draft Position (ADP), player rankings, surface splits, recent form, and head-to-head context — so every manager has the data they need without leaving the app. Use the built-in draft chat to talk strategy with your league as picks come in.
Yes — the draft room shows live projections for every available player, factoring in tour schedule, surface fit, and recent form. Projections respect your league's scoring settings, so the numbers reflect how each player would actually score in your league — not a generic baseline. They update live as picks come in, so you can compare apples to apples while you're on the clock.
Each league's commissioner sets the roster size — the default setting is 10 players per team, with eight starters and two bench players for each tournament. You draft any mix of ATP and WTA players in a live snake draft, then manage your lineup throughout the season with a waiver wire for mid-season roster changes.
A fantasy tennis league's length depends on which tournaments the commissioner includes. Leagues can cover any combination of Grand Slams and Masters tournaments, as long as all included tournaments fall within one calendar year (January through December). Some leagues run a single Grand Slam; others cover the full Slam + Masters calendar.
Yes. Create a league as Private to limit it to invite-only — your friends join via a personal invite link, and the league won't appear in the public discovery page. As commissioner, you control every draft and league setting (scoring rules, bonus structure, draft format, tournament coverage, waiver windows, roster size) and can create new seasons of the league year after year. Private leagues support every feature public leagues do: snake drafts, waivers, custom scoring, message boards, and head-to-head matchups.
A salary-cap contest is a head-to-the-field game where every entrant builds a roster of ATP and WTA pros under a fixed budget. Each player has a fantasy price computed by our pricing model, which weighs recent results, surface history, ranking, and tournament identity — so a clay specialist costs more for Roland Garros than for Wimbledon, and injured players price low until they return. Build the strongest roster you can within the budget, then compete against the field.
Set-and-forget contests lock your lineup at contest start and ride it through to the end. Active contests let you swap players between tournaments in a multi-tournament contest — your lineup still locks during any ongoing tournament, but you can rebuild your roster when one event finishes and the next begins. Active rewards multi-event strategy; set-and-forget rewards pre-contest prediction.
The Drop Shot has live coverage for Grand Slams (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open), Masters, ATP/WTA 500, plus the ATP Finals and WTA Finals — with live scores, draws, and match results updated in real time. ATP 250 and WTA 250 coverage is coming soon. Fantasy leagues can include any combination of Grand Slams and Masters tournaments — 500-level events are tracked on the platform but aren't currently included in league scoring.
Fantasy tennis leagues can run any time — commissioners choose which tournaments count toward scoring. Leagues can be a single Grand Slam (just play Wimbledon), a multi-Slam season (all four majors), a Masters-only league, or a full calendar covering every Slam and Masters event. All tournaments in a single league must fall within one calendar year (January through December). New leagues can start any time, including right before or even during a Grand Slam.
The waiver wire includes every player in your league that isn't on someone's fantasy team. You can swap players on your roster between tournaments by dropping players from your team and claiming free agents off the waiver wire. If a player gets injured or drops in form, you can drop them and claim a free agent. Waiver priority is based on reverse standings order, so trailing teams get first pick.
Players earn fantasy points based on how far they advance in each tournament on your league's schedule (e.g. R32 → R16 → QF → SF → F → W). Upset wins score extra points when a lower-ranked player beats a higher-ranked one. Fantasy teams earn bonus points for leading a tournament in any of several team-stat categories: most aces, most breaks of serve, fewest double faults, and tournament-without-loss. Commissioners can configure the schedule, the round-by-round point values, the bonus point totals for each category, and head-to-head bonuses for beating players on other fantasy teams. Default scoring works great out of the box, or you can customize every rule to fit your league.
The Drop Shot is the only fantasy tennis platform that combines season-long snake-draft leagues with salary-cap contests, full ATP and WTA tour coverage, live point-by-point scoring with predictive models on every match (accuracy published openly against Vegas at /predictions/accuracy), data-driven player pricing that weights surface fit and injury status, and commissioner-configurable scoring rules — all free with no entry fees. ATP Fantasy is the official ATP product but covers ATP only and lacks salary-cap contests. DraftKings's tennis vertical uses their generic DFS lineup builder with paid-entry contests. FanSlam is a US/Canada-only salary-cap fantasy tennis app focused on cash-prize contests. Tweener is a mobile-first fantasy tennis app with public and private leagues, available on iOS and Android with paid entries.