ATP & WTA First-Serve Percentage Leaders 2026

First-serve percentage is how often a player's first serve lands in. It is a consistency measure, not a power one — every serve point starts either on a first serve that landed or on a second serve that had to.

A high number is not automatically a good one. A player can push first-serve percentage into the seventies by taking pace off, and lose more points doing it; the players who matter are the ones pairing a high number with a high first-serve points-won rate. Read this board next to first-serve points won, and treat the tour median below as the benchmark rather than any absolute target.

ATP first-serve percentage leaders 2026

Mariano Navone leads the ATP with 72.2% of first serves landed in 2026, measured over 21 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified ATP player this season. Alexander Zverev (70.8%) and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (70.3%) are next. 89 ATP players qualify, and the median of that field is 62.0%.

ATP first-serve percentage leaders, 2026 season — top 50 of 89 qualified players, ranked by 1st serve %, with the match sample behind each figure.
#	Player	Country	1st serve %	Matches
1	Mariano Navone	ARG	72.2%	21
2	Alexander Zverev	GER	70.8%	63
3	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	ESP	70.3%	27
4	Joao Fonseca	BRA	68.2%	30
5	Sebastian Baez	ARG	68.2%	19
6	Lorenzo Sonego	ITA	67.9%	15
7	Gabriel Diallo	CAN	67.7%	16
8	Ben Shelton	USA	67.4%	44
9	Novak Djokovic	SRB	67.1%	21
10	Carlos Alcaraz	ESP	67.0%	30
11	Felix Auger-Aliassime	CAN	66.8%	41
12	Jenson Brooksby	USA	66.6%	21
13	Casper Ruud	NOR	66.3%	31
14	Pablo Carreno Busta	ESP	66.3%	17
15	Taylor Fritz	USA	65.9%	39
16	Fabian Marozsan	HUN	65.6%	24
17	Brandon Nakashima	USA	65.1%	41
18	Daniel Merida Aguilar	ESP	65.1%	19
19	Matteo Berrettini	ITA	64.9%	26
20	Hamad Medjedovic	SRB	64.9%	19
21	Damir Dzumhur	BIH	64.9%	16
22	Nuno Borges	POR	64.8%	28
23	Jannik Sinner	ITA	64.7%	47
24	Corentin Moutet	FRA	64.4%	20
25	Alexander Bublik	KAZ	64.2%	28
26	Tomas Machac	CZE	64.2%	17
27	Adam Walton	AUS	64.2%	17
28	Jiri Lehecka	CZE	64.1%	39
29	Daniil Medvedev	—	63.9%	41
30	Karen Khachanov	—	63.9%	37
31	Alexei Popyrin	AUS	63.9%	21
32	Arthur Fils	FRA	63.7%	40
33	Arthur Rinderknech	FRA	63.7%	26
34	Marcos Giron	USA	63.7%	16
35	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	ARG	63.6%	33
36	Ethan Quinn	USA	63.4%	19
37	Valentin Vacherot	MON	63.1%	24
38	Alejandro Tabilo	CHI	63.1%	33
39	Lorenzo Musetti	ITA	63.0%	26
40	Alex Michelsen	USA	63.0%	32
41	Raphael Collignon	BEL	62.9%	15
42	Arthur Fery	GBR	62.4%	16
43	Kamil Majchrzak	POL	62.3%	20
44	Rafael Jodar	ESP	62.2%	44
45	Cameron Norrie	GBR	62.0%	29
46	Hubert Hurkacz	POL	62.0%	27
47	Learner Tien	USA	61.9%	34
48	Terence Atmane	FRA	61.8%	31
49	Ignacio Buse	PER	61.7%	23
50	Tallon Griekspoor	NED	61.7%	21

39 further qualified ATP players are outside the top 50; the full field is sortable in the ATP stat explorer on Stat Leaders.

WTA first-serve percentage leaders 2026

Renata Zarazua leads the WTA with 74.8% of first serves landed in 2026, measured over 15 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified WTA player this season. Maja Chwalinska (70.7%) and Caty McNally (70.0%) are next. 80 WTA players qualify, and the median of that field is 61.8%.

WTA first-serve percentage leaders, 2026 season — top 50 of 80 qualified players, ranked by 1st serve %, with the match sample behind each figure.
#	Player	Country	1st serve %	Matches
1	Renata Zarazua	MEX	74.8%	15
2	Maja Chwalinska	POL	70.7%	17
3	Caty McNally	USA	70.0%	23
4	Yulia Putintseva	KAZ	69.8%	21
5	Daria Kasatkina	AUS	69.7%	20
6	Viktorija Golubic	SUI	69.6%	18
7	Marie Bouzkova	CZE	69.0%	28
8	Shuai Zhang	CHN	68.9%	24
9	Oleksandra Oliynykova	UKR	68.3%	21
10	Sloane Stephens	USA	68.0%	15
11	Eva Lys	GER	67.4%	17
12	Jasmine Paolini	ITA	66.8%	28
13	Iga Swiatek	POL	66.3%	44
14	Karolina Pliskova	CZE	66.2%	24
15	Antonia Ruzic	CRO	65.8%	20
16	Diana Shnaider	—	65.5%	43
17	Victoria Mboko	CAN	65.3%	29
18	Sofia Kenin	USA	65.3%	18
19	Taylor Townsend	USA	65.2%	21
20	Xinyu Wang	CHN	64.4%	28
21	Ashlyn Krueger	USA	64.3%	18
22	Amanda Anisimova	USA	64.1%	33
23	Aryna Sabalenka	—	64.0%	54
24	Mirra Andreeva	—	63.8%	58
25	Karolina Muchova	CZE	63.5%	43
26	Belinda Bencic	SUI	63.2%	31
27	Madison Keys	USA	63.2%	39
28	Camila Osorio	COL	63.2%	21
29	Cristina Bucsa	ESP	63.0%	25
30	Alexandra Eala	PHI	62.9%	44
31	Kimberly Birrell	AUS	62.7%	18
32	Sara Bejlek	CZE	62.6%	22
33	Coco Gauff	USA	62.5%	55
34	McCartney Kessler	USA	62.4%	18
35	Zeynep Sonmez	TUR	62.2%	27
36	Solana Sierra	ARG	62.2%	18
37	Jessica Pegula	USA	62.1%	63
38	Tereza Valentova	CZE	62.0%	17
39	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	ITA	62.0%	19
40	Maria Sakkari	GRE	61.8%	28
41	Maya Joint	AUS	61.8%	17
42	Anna Kalinskaya	—	61.7%	40
43	Leylah Fernandez	CAN	61.7%	35
44	Katerina Siniakova	CZE	61.4%	29
45	Yuliia Starodubtseva	UKR	61.2%	25
46	Magdalena Frech	POL	61.2%	32
47	Clara Tauson	DEN	61.1%	28
48	Linda Noskova	CZE	60.3%	45
49	Dayana Yastremska	UKR	60.1%	20
50	Katie Boulter	GBR	59.6%	21

30 further qualified WTA players are outside the top 50; the full field is sortable in the WTA stat explorer on Stat Leaders.

How first-serve percentage is measured

First-serve percentage is total first serves in divided by total serve points played, expressed as a percentage — a ratio of season totals, not an average of per-match percentages.

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.

Coverage and limits

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.

First-serve percentage is derived from the serve-point splits, so it is present whenever a match carries serve statistics at all. In the 2026 pool this statistic is recorded for 2,956 of the 3,040 ATP matches (97%) and 2,914 of the 3,298 WTA matches (88%).

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.