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Clay Court Tennis Elo Rankings — ATP & WTA

The best clay court players in the world right now, ranked by surface-specific Elo — the exact number our tennis model uses on the dirt. Official ATP and WTA rankings ignore the surface entirely; surface Elo is why a clay specialist or a grass-court server can be a far stronger favourite than their world ranking suggests.

ATP

#	Player	Clay Court Elo	Overall Elo	Matches
1	Jannik Sinner	2064	2148	122
2	Carlos Alcaraz	2034	2042	131
3	Alexander Zverev	1944	1965	256
4	Novak Djokovic	1893	1931	191
5	Casper Ruud	1893	1786	249
6	Arthur Fils	1845	1806	69
7	Lorenzo Musetti	1836	1777	138
8	Flavio Cobolli	1799	1699	76
9	Rafael Jodar	1796	1745	34
10	Andrey Rublev	1780	1677	160
11	Luciano Darderi	1772	1676	101
12	Tommy Paul	1767	1797	91
13	Holger Rune	1754	1731	91
14	Alexander Blockx	1745	1650	25
15	Daniil Medvedev	1740	1855	97
16	Alex De Minaur	1738	1807	97
17	Matteo Arnaldi	1737	1592	59
18	Matteo Berrettini	1734	1709	109
19	Stefanos Tsitsipas	1715	1729	181
20	Karen Khachanov	1705	1712	154
21	Ignacio Buse	1698	1629	37
22	Kei Nishikori	1691	1647	111
23	Alex Molcan	1687	1621	62
24	Jiri Lehecka	1681	1742	57
25	Thiago Agustin Tirante	1676	1649	42
26	Felix Auger Aliassime	1675	1772	116
27	Joao Fonseca	1675	1701	46
28	Mariano Navone	1674	1604	76
29	Hubert Hurkacz	1671	1713	86
30	Frances Tiafoe	1666	1782	105
31	Francisco Cerundolo	1663	1700	163
32	Jakub Mensik	1659	1679	38
33	Cameron Norrie	1646	1651	128
34	Pablo Carreno Busta	1638	1598	184
35	Jack Draper	1637	1745	37
36	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	1637	1698	109
37	Dino Prizmic	1636	1580	31
38	Grigor Dimitrov	1632	1656	127
39	Alexander Bublik	1626	1717	89
40	Andrea Pellegrino	1626	1617	22
41	Hamad Medjedovic	1624	1573	42
42	Alexei Popyrin	1622	1577	73
43	Taylor Fritz	1617	1753	97
44	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	1615	1595	121
45	Sebastian Korda	1613	1701	52
46	Ben Shelton	1612	1816	54
47	Tomas Machac	1611	1641	44
48	Laslo Djere	1609	1548	179
49	Filip Misolic	1607	1551	26
50	Yannick Hanfmann	1604	1593	128

WTA

#	Player	Clay Court Elo	Overall Elo	Matches
1	Marta Kostyuk	1942	1793	75
2	Elina Svitolina	1934	1862	111
3	Mirra Andreeva	1896	1831	83
4	Coco Gauff	1890	1919	114
5	Iga Swiatek	1880	1904	135
6	Aryna Sabalenka	1875	1980	131
7	Elena Rybakina	1845	1997	109
8	Anastasia Potapova	1811	1699	98
9	Madison Keys	1758	1759	96
10	Karolina Muchova	1751	1826	56
11	Qinwen Zheng	1750	1818	71
12	Jessica Pegula	1748	1905	87
13	Sorana Cirstea	1744	1740	95
14	Hailey Baptiste	1713	1683	45
15	Marketa Vondrousova	1712	1716	73
16	Belinda Bencic	1704	1744	76
17	Olga Danilovic	1699	1612	51
18	Jelena Ostapenko	1696	1667	96
19	Jasmine Paolini	1691	1702	109
20	Emma Navarro	1682	1679	55
21	Elise Mertens	1680	1700	114
22	Karolina Pliskova	1679	1647	89
23	Victoria Mboko	1678	1793	18
24	Naomi Osaka	1674	1777	61
25	Magda Linette	1673	1566	88
26	Anna Bondar	1671	1541	72
27	Daria Kasatkina	1669	1574	114
28	Diana Shnaider	1667	1698	58
29	Peyton Stearns	1660	1599	48
30	Jil Teichmann	1650	1554	75
31	Maja Chwalinska	1648	1603	15
32	Diane Parry	1648	1597	55
33	Amanda Anisimova	1633	1783	65
34	Paula Badosa	1633	1652	87
35	Camila Osorio	1632	1585	80
36	Jaqueline Cristian	1631	1647	66
37	Anna Kalinskaya	1629	1716	54
38	Sloane Stephens	1626	1560	98
39	Veronika Kudermetova	1621	1612	86
40	Sonay Kartal	1618	1657	7
41	Xiyu Wang	1618	1541	34
42	Marie Bouzkova	1617	1642	60
43	Maria Sakkari	1612	1643	106
44	Victoria Azarenka	1608	1659	58
45	Iva Jovic	1607	1683	18
46	Ann Li	1606	1653	43
47	Julia Riera	1599	1562	29
48	Kaja Juvan	1597	1538	37
49	Elizara Yaneva	1596	1596	9
50	Linda Noskova	1594	1752	45

Method: rankings are ordered by shrunk clay court Elo — a player's raw surface rating blended toward their overall Elo until they have 30+ matches on the surface (small surface samples are noise, so a player with 5 grass matches is rated mostly on overall strength). This is byte-identical to the value our match-prediction model uses, not a display approximation. Built from the open Jeff Sackmann dataset, updated nightly; only currently-active players (3+ matches in the last 14 months) are listed. "Matches" is the career sample on this surface in our data.

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Clay Court Tennis Elo Rankings — ATP & WTA

ATP

#	Player	Clay Court Elo	Overall Elo	Matches
1	Jannik Sinner	2064	2148	122
2	Carlos Alcaraz	2034	2042	131
3	Alexander Zverev	1944	1965	256
4	Novak Djokovic	1893	1931	191
5	Casper Ruud	1893	1786	249
6	Arthur Fils	1845	1806	69
7	Lorenzo Musetti	1836	1777	138
8	Flavio Cobolli	1799	1699	76
9	Rafael Jodar	1796	1745	34
10	Andrey Rublev	1780	1677	160
11	Luciano Darderi	1772	1676	101
12	Tommy Paul	1767	1797	91
13	Holger Rune	1754	1731	91
14	Alexander Blockx	1745	1650	25
15	Daniil Medvedev	1740	1855	97
16	Alex De Minaur	1738	1807	97
17	Matteo Arnaldi	1737	1592	59
18	Matteo Berrettini	1734	1709	109
19	Stefanos Tsitsipas	1715	1729	181
20	Karen Khachanov	1705	1712	154
21	Ignacio Buse	1698	1629	37
22	Kei Nishikori	1691	1647	111
23	Alex Molcan	1687	1621	62
24	Jiri Lehecka	1681	1742	57
25	Thiago Agustin Tirante	1676	1649	42
26	Felix Auger Aliassime	1675	1772	116
27	Joao Fonseca	1675	1701	46
28	Mariano Navone	1674	1604	76
29	Hubert Hurkacz	1671	1713	86
30	Frances Tiafoe	1666	1782	105
31	Francisco Cerundolo	1663	1700	163
32	Jakub Mensik	1659	1679	38
33	Cameron Norrie	1646	1651	128
34	Pablo Carreno Busta	1638	1598	184
35	Jack Draper	1637	1745	37
36	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	1637	1698	109
37	Dino Prizmic	1636	1580	31
38	Grigor Dimitrov	1632	1656	127
39	Alexander Bublik	1626	1717	89
40	Andrea Pellegrino	1626	1617	22
41	Hamad Medjedovic	1624	1573	42
42	Alexei Popyrin	1622	1577	73
43	Taylor Fritz	1617	1753	97
44	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	1615	1595	121
45	Sebastian Korda	1613	1701	52
46	Ben Shelton	1612	1816	54
47	Tomas Machac	1611	1641	44
48	Laslo Djere	1609	1548	179
49	Filip Misolic	1607	1551	26
50	Yannick Hanfmann	1604	1593	128

WTA

#	Player	Clay Court Elo	Overall Elo	Matches
1	Marta Kostyuk	1942	1793	75
2	Elina Svitolina	1934	1862	111
3	Mirra Andreeva	1896	1831	83
4	Coco Gauff	1890	1919	114
5	Iga Swiatek	1880	1904	135
6	Aryna Sabalenka	1875	1980	131
7	Elena Rybakina	1845	1997	109
8	Anastasia Potapova	1811	1699	98
9	Madison Keys	1758	1759	96
10	Karolina Muchova	1751	1826	56
11	Qinwen Zheng	1750	1818	71
12	Jessica Pegula	1748	1905	87
13	Sorana Cirstea	1744	1740	95
14	Hailey Baptiste	1713	1683	45
15	Marketa Vondrousova	1712	1716	73
16	Belinda Bencic	1704	1744	76
17	Olga Danilovic	1699	1612	51
18	Jelena Ostapenko	1696	1667	96
19	Jasmine Paolini	1691	1702	109
20	Emma Navarro	1682	1679	55
21	Elise Mertens	1680	1700	114
22	Karolina Pliskova	1679	1647	89
23	Victoria Mboko	1678	1793	18
24	Naomi Osaka	1674	1777	61
25	Magda Linette	1673	1566	88
26	Anna Bondar	1671	1541	72
27	Daria Kasatkina	1669	1574	114
28	Diana Shnaider	1667	1698	58
29	Peyton Stearns	1660	1599	48
30	Jil Teichmann	1650	1554	75
31	Maja Chwalinska	1648	1603	15
32	Diane Parry	1648	1597	55
33	Amanda Anisimova	1633	1783	65
34	Paula Badosa	1633	1652	87
35	Camila Osorio	1632	1585	80
36	Jaqueline Cristian	1631	1647	66
37	Anna Kalinskaya	1629	1716	54
38	Sloane Stephens	1626	1560	98
39	Veronika Kudermetova	1621	1612	86
40	Sonay Kartal	1618	1657	7
41	Xiyu Wang	1618	1541	34
42	Marie Bouzkova	1617	1642	60
43	Maria Sakkari	1612	1643	106
44	Victoria Azarenka	1608	1659	58
45	Iva Jovic	1607	1683	18
46	Ann Li	1606	1653	43
47	Julia Riera	1599	1562	29
48	Kaja Juvan	1597	1538	37
49	Elizara Yaneva	1596	1596	9
50	Linda Noskova	1594	1752	45

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