ATP & WTA Second-Serve Return Points Won Leaders 2026

Second-serve return points won is the share of points a player wins against the opponent's second serve — the ball a returner is supposed to attack.

This is the aggression board. A player over the halfway mark is winning more second-serve return points than they lose, which is the pressure that forces double faults out of an opponent and turns 30-30 into break point. Read it beside the break-points-converted board: the players who lead one usually lead the other.

ATP second-serve return points won leaders 2026

Daniel Merida Aguilar leads the ATP with 55.7% of second-serve return points won in 2026, measured over 19 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified ATP player this season. Jannik Sinner (54.1%) and Carlos Alcaraz (53.7%) are next. 89 ATP players qualify, and the median of that field is 49.0%.

ATP second-serve return points won leaders, 2026 season — top 50 of 89 qualified players, ranked by 2nd return won %, with the match sample behind each figure.
#	Player	Country	2nd return won %	Matches
1	Daniel Merida Aguilar	ESP	55.7%	19
2	Jannik Sinner	ITA	54.1%	47
3	Carlos Alcaraz	ESP	53.7%	30
4	Frances Tiafoe	USA	53.6%	49
5	Francisco Cerundolo	ARG	53.6%	37
6	Daniil Medvedev	—	53.4%	41
7	Sebastian Baez	ARG	53.3%	19
8	Alex De Minaur	AUS	53.2%	43
9	Lorenzo Musetti	ITA	52.8%	26
10	Pablo Carreno Busta	ESP	52.8%	17
11	Learner Tien	USA	52.3%	34
12	Joao Fonseca	BRA	52.1%	30
13	Jan-Lennard Struff	GER	51.8%	23
14	Arthur Fils	FRA	51.6%	40
15	Novak Djokovic	SRB	51.6%	21
16	Alex Michelsen	USA	51.5%	32
17	Alexander Zverev	GER	51.4%	63
18	Rinky Hijikata	AUS	51.4%	18
19	Marin Cilic	CRO	51.3%	22
20	Kamil Majchrzak	POL	51.2%	20
21	Miomir Kecmanovic	SRB	51.1%	24
22	Ignacio Buse	PER	51.0%	23
23	Jaume Munar	ESP	51.0%	16
24	Valentin Royer	FRA	51.0%	17
25	Brandon Nakashima	USA	50.9%	41
26	Mariano Navone	ARG	50.9%	21
27	Corentin Moutet	FRA	50.7%	20
28	Martin Landaluce	ESP	50.7%	20
29	Mattia Bellucci	ITA	50.7%	19
30	Rafael Jodar	ESP	50.6%	44
31	Karen Khachanov	—	50.6%	37
32	Tommy Paul	USA	50.5%	43
33	Botic Van De Zandschulp	NED	50.5%	29
34	Adrian Mannarino	FRA	50.5%	21
35	Jenson Brooksby	USA	50.5%	21
36	Taylor Fritz	USA	50.3%	39
37	Casper Ruud	NOR	50.2%	31
38	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	ESP	49.8%	27
39	Denis Shapovalov	CAN	49.8%	27
40	Ugo Humbert	FRA	49.7%	32
41	Dino Prizmic	CRO	49.6%	18
42	Juan Manuel Cerundolo	ARG	49.4%	21
43	Valentin Vacherot	MON	49.2%	24
44	Quentin Halys	FRA	49.2%	21
45	Vit Kopriva	CZE	49.0%	25
46	Flavio Cobolli	ITA	48.9%	44
47	Alejandro Tabilo	CHI	48.9%	33
48	Jaime Faria	POR	48.9%	19
49	Cameron Norrie	GBR	48.7%	29
50	Stefanos Tsitsipas	GRE	48.7%	33

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

WTA second-serve return points won leaders 2026

Kamilla Rakhimova leads the WTA with 60.4% of second-serve return points won in 2026, measured over 21 qualifying matches — the most of any qualified WTA player this season. Elina Svitolina (60.0%) and Iga Swiatek (59.8%) are next. 80 WTA players qualify, and the median of that field is 54.4%.

WTA second-serve return points won leaders, 2026 season — top 50 of 80 qualified players, ranked by 2nd return won %, with the match sample behind each figure.
#	Player	Country	2nd return won %	Matches
1	Kamilla Rakhimova	UZB	60.4%	21
2	Elina Svitolina	UKR	60.0%	51
3	Iga Swiatek	POL	59.8%	44
4	Amanda Anisimova	USA	59.7%	33
5	Belinda Bencic	SUI	59.2%	32
6	Marta Kostyuk	UKR	58.7%	40
7	Zeynep Sonmez	TUR	58.4%	27
8	Mirra Andreeva	—	58.1%	58
9	Jessica Bouzas Maneiro	ESP	58.1%	17
10	Viktorija Golubic	SUI	58.0%	18
11	Anastasia Potapova	AUT	57.7%	34
12	Aryna Sabalenka	—	57.4%	54
13	Iva Jovic	USA	57.4%	42
14	Alexandra Eala	PHI	57.1%	44
15	Anna Bondar	HUN	56.7%	21
16	Daria Kasatkina	AUS	56.7%	20
17	Jelena Ostapenko	LAT	56.6%	31
18	Eva Lys	GER	56.6%	17
19	Nikola Bartunkova	CZE	56.4%	25
20	Elena Gabriela Ruse	ROU	56.4%	23
21	Elise Mertens	BEL	56.2%	39
22	Camila Osorio	COL	56.2%	21
23	Coco Gauff	USA	56.1%	56
24	Tereza Valentova	CZE	56.1%	17
25	Peyton Stearns	USA	56.0%	27
26	Diana Shnaider	—	55.9%	43
27	Sorana Cirstea	ROU	55.8%	36
28	Maja Chwalinska	POL	55.6%	17
29	Marie Bouzkova	CZE	55.5%	28
30	Oleksandra Oliynykova	UKR	55.5%	21
31	Jessica Pegula	USA	55.4%	63
32	Yuliia Starodubtseva	UKR	55.4%	25
33	Anna Kalinskaya	—	55.3%	40
34	Yulia Putintseva	KAZ	55.3%	21
35	Liudmila Samsonova	—	55.2%	36
36	Madison Keys	USA	54.8%	39
37	Magdalena Frech	POL	54.7%	32
38	Sara Bejlek	CZE	54.5%	22
39	Maya Joint	AUS	54.5%	17
40	Elena Rybakina	KAZ	54.4%	61
41	Shuai Zhang	CHN	54.4%	24
42	Caty McNally	USA	54.4%	23
43	Sofia Kenin	USA	54.2%	18
44	Clara Tauson	DEN	54.1%	28
45	McCartney Kessler	USA	54.1%	18
46	Jasmine Paolini	ITA	54.0%	28
47	Maria Sakkari	GRE	54.0%	28
48	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	ITA	54.0%	19
49	Victoria Mboko	CAN	53.9%	29
50	Naomi Osaka	JPN	53.9%	37

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

How second-serve return points won is measured

Second-serve return points won is total points won returning a second serve divided by total second serves faced, expressed as a percentage.

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.

Shares its source with the first-serve return board, so the two cover the same matches. In the 2026 pool this statistic is recorded for 2,958 of the 3,040 ATP matches (97%) and 2,922 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.