An ace is a legal serve the returner never touches — the point ends on the serve itself. Aces per match is the rate: how many a player hits in an average match, rather than how many they have piled up over a long season.
The rate is the fair read. A season total rewards whoever played the most matches and whoever went deepest at the biggest events; the per-match number puts a first-round exit and a champion on the same scale. Big servers on fast hard courts sit at the top; clay specialists and counter-punchers sit at the bottom, and that spread is the point.
Hubert Hurkacz leads the ATP with 15.2 aces per match in 2026, measured over 27 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified ATP player this season. Taylor Fritz (14.9) and Alexander Bublik (12.9) are next. 89 ATP players qualify, and the median of that field is 7.0.
39 further qualified ATP players are outside the top 50; the full field is sortable in the ATP stat explorer on Stat Leaders.
Qinwen Zheng leads the WTA with 7.9 aces per match in 2026, measured over 22 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified WTA player this season. Linda Noskova (7.3) and Clara Tauson (6.8) are next. 80 WTA players qualify, and the median of that field is 2.9.
30 further qualified WTA players are outside the top 50; the full field is sortable in the WTA stat explorer on Stat Leaders.
Aces per match is the mean of a player's per-match ace counts, over the matches where an ace count was recorded.
A player qualifies for this board with at least 15 singles matches in the 2026 pool and at least 15 of those matches carrying this statistic. The floor is half the busiest schedule on tour, capped at 15 — a flat 15 would leave the board empty until roughly April, when the pool has barely filled. The Matches column on every row is that player's own denominator, so a number taken over a thin sample is visible as one rather than hidden behind a rank. A tour section is withheld entirely below 25 qualified players.
Figures cover Grand Slam, 1000- and 500-level singles matches in 2026, on every surface. 250-level and lower-tier events are not counted, so a player's totals here run below their full-season numbers — which is also why this page ranks a per-match or per-point RATE rather than a season total. A total drawn from a partial pool would be wrong in a way a rate is not.
Ace counts are among the densest statistics in the feed — they come off the match scoreboard rather than a scorer's judgement, so a match that reported serve statistics at all almost always reported these. In the 2026 pool this statistic is recorded for 2,958 of the 3,040 ATP matches (97%) and 2,934 of the 3,298 WTA matches (89%).
Ranks and values on this page are computed over the same pool, so the ordering and the numbers beside it always agree. Drop Shot is not the ATP or the WTA and these are not official tour statistics: they are aggregated from our own match feed, and where a match did not report a statistic it contributes nothing to either the numerator or the denominator.