Tennis

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	2059	131
3	Alexander Zverev	1944	1934	256
4	Novak Djokovic	1893	1965	191
5	Casper Ruud	1893	1795	249
6	Arthur Fils	1845	1808	69
7	Lorenzo Musetti	1836	1828	138
8	Flavio Cobolli	1799	1707	76
9	Rafael Jodar	1796	1710	34
10	Andrey Rublev	1780	1719	160
11	Luciano Darderi	1772	1663	101
12	Tommy Paul	1767	1774	91
13	Holger Rune	1754	1764	91
14	Alexander Blockx	1744	1643	25
15	Daniil Medvedev	1740	1859	97
16	Alex De Minaur	1738	1828	97
17	Matteo Arnaldi	1737	1612	59
18	Matteo Berrettini	1734	1745	109
19	Stefanos Tsitsipas	1715	1687	181
20	Karen Khachanov	1705	1664	154
21	Ignacio Buse	1698	1654	37
22	Alex Molcan	1687	1625	62
23	Jiri Lehecka	1681	1742	57
24	Thiago Agustin Tirante	1676	1640	42
25	Felix Auger Aliassime	1675	1789	116
26	Joao Fonseca	1675	1686	46
27	Mariano Navone	1674	1579	76
28	Hubert Hurkacz	1671	1664	86
29	Frances Tiafoe	1666	1725	105
30	Francisco Cerundolo	1663	1688	163
31	Jakub Mensik	1659	1707	38
32	Cameron Norrie	1646	1673	128
33	Pablo Carreno Busta	1638	1598	184
34	Jack Draper	1637	1779	37
35	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	1637	1677	109
36	Dino Prizmic	1636	1580	31
37	Grigor Dimitrov	1632	1693	127
38	Alexander Bublik	1626	1708	89
39	Andrea Pellegrino	1626	1617	22
40	Hamad Medjedovic	1624	1612	42
41	Alexei Popyrin	1622	1560	73
42	Taylor Fritz	1617	1765	97
43	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	1615	1612	121
44	Sebastian Korda	1613	1701	52
45	Ben Shelton	1612	1759	54
46	Tomas Machac	1611	1701	44
47	Filip Misolic	1608	1558	26
48	Yannick Hanfmann	1604	1592	128
49	Alejandro Tabilo	1601	1583	79
50	Pablo Llamas Ruiz	1601	1580	23

WTA

#	Player	Clay Court Elo	Overall Elo	Matches
1	Marta Kostyuk	1942	1804	75
2	Elina Svitolina	1934	1882	111
3	Mirra Andreeva	1895	1820	83
4	Coco Gauff	1887	1886	113
5	Iga Swiatek	1880	1873	135
6	Aryna Sabalenka	1875	2047	131
7	Elena Rybakina	1845	1963	109
8	Anastasia Potapova	1811	1690	98
9	Madison Keys	1758	1783	96
10	Karolina Muchova	1751	1858	56
11	Qinwen Zheng	1750	1755	71
12	Jessica Pegula	1748	1900	87
13	Danielle Collins	1747	1655	81
14	Sorana Cirstea	1743	1754	95
15	Hailey Baptiste	1713	1683	45
16	Marketa Vondrousova	1712	1716	73
17	Belinda Bencic	1704	1798	76
18	Olga Danilovic	1699	1612	51
19	Jelena Ostapenko	1696	1650	96
20	Jasmine Paolini	1691	1715	109
21	Ons Jabeur	1687	1672	79
22	Emma Navarro	1682	1622	55
23	Karolina Pliskova	1679	1662	89
24	Victoria Mboko	1678	1793	18
25	Naomi Osaka	1674	1735	61
26	Magda Linette	1673	1622	88
27	Daria Kasatkina	1669	1621	114
28	Diana Shnaider	1667	1657	58
29	Elise Mertens	1664	1701	110
30	Peyton Stearns	1660	1610	48
31	Maja Chwalinska	1657	1609	14
32	Jil Teichmann	1650	1554	75
33	Amanda Anisimova	1633	1793	65
34	Paula Badosa	1633	1653	87
35	Camila Osorio	1632	1585	80
36	Jaqueline Cristian	1631	1647	66
37	Anna Kalinskaya	1629	1682	54
38	Veronika Kudermetova	1621	1612	86
39	Marie Bouzkova	1617	1626	60
40	Anhelina Kalinina	1613	1536	75
41	Maria Sakkari	1612	1636	106
42	Yulia Putintseva	1610	1616	113
43	Victoria Azarenka	1608	1659	58
44	Donna Vekic	1607	1593	68
45	Solana Sierra	1605	1552	20
46	Lois Boisson	1600	1565	19
47	Julia Riera	1599	1562	29
48	Ann Li	1598	1574	40
49	Kaja Juvan	1597	1538	37
50	Elizara Yaneva	1596	1596	9

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	2059	131
3	Alexander Zverev	1944	1934	256
4	Novak Djokovic	1893	1965	191
5	Casper Ruud	1893	1795	249
6	Arthur Fils	1845	1808	69
7	Lorenzo Musetti	1836	1828	138
8	Flavio Cobolli	1799	1707	76
9	Rafael Jodar	1796	1710	34
10	Andrey Rublev	1780	1719	160
11	Luciano Darderi	1772	1663	101
12	Tommy Paul	1767	1774	91
13	Holger Rune	1754	1764	91
14	Alexander Blockx	1744	1643	25
15	Daniil Medvedev	1740	1859	97
16	Alex De Minaur	1738	1828	97
17	Matteo Arnaldi	1737	1612	59
18	Matteo Berrettini	1734	1745	109
19	Stefanos Tsitsipas	1715	1687	181
20	Karen Khachanov	1705	1664	154
21	Ignacio Buse	1698	1654	37
22	Alex Molcan	1687	1625	62
23	Jiri Lehecka	1681	1742	57
24	Thiago Agustin Tirante	1676	1640	42
25	Felix Auger Aliassime	1675	1789	116
26	Joao Fonseca	1675	1686	46
27	Mariano Navone	1674	1579	76
28	Hubert Hurkacz	1671	1664	86
29	Frances Tiafoe	1666	1725	105
30	Francisco Cerundolo	1663	1688	163
31	Jakub Mensik	1659	1707	38
32	Cameron Norrie	1646	1673	128
33	Pablo Carreno Busta	1638	1598	184
34	Jack Draper	1637	1779	37
35	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	1637	1677	109
36	Dino Prizmic	1636	1580	31
37	Grigor Dimitrov	1632	1693	127
38	Alexander Bublik	1626	1708	89
39	Andrea Pellegrino	1626	1617	22
40	Hamad Medjedovic	1624	1612	42
41	Alexei Popyrin	1622	1560	73
42	Taylor Fritz	1617	1765	97
43	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	1615	1612	121
44	Sebastian Korda	1613	1701	52
45	Ben Shelton	1612	1759	54
46	Tomas Machac	1611	1701	44
47	Filip Misolic	1608	1558	26
48	Yannick Hanfmann	1604	1592	128
49	Alejandro Tabilo	1601	1583	79
50	Pablo Llamas Ruiz	1601	1580	23

WTA

#	Player	Clay Court Elo	Overall Elo	Matches
1	Marta Kostyuk	1942	1804	75
2	Elina Svitolina	1934	1882	111
3	Mirra Andreeva	1895	1820	83
4	Coco Gauff	1887	1886	113
5	Iga Swiatek	1880	1873	135
6	Aryna Sabalenka	1875	2047	131
7	Elena Rybakina	1845	1963	109
8	Anastasia Potapova	1811	1690	98
9	Madison Keys	1758	1783	96
10	Karolina Muchova	1751	1858	56
11	Qinwen Zheng	1750	1755	71
12	Jessica Pegula	1748	1900	87
13	Danielle Collins	1747	1655	81
14	Sorana Cirstea	1743	1754	95
15	Hailey Baptiste	1713	1683	45
16	Marketa Vondrousova	1712	1716	73
17	Belinda Bencic	1704	1798	76
18	Olga Danilovic	1699	1612	51
19	Jelena Ostapenko	1696	1650	96
20	Jasmine Paolini	1691	1715	109
21	Ons Jabeur	1687	1672	79
22	Emma Navarro	1682	1622	55
23	Karolina Pliskova	1679	1662	89
24	Victoria Mboko	1678	1793	18
25	Naomi Osaka	1674	1735	61
26	Magda Linette	1673	1622	88
27	Daria Kasatkina	1669	1621	114
28	Diana Shnaider	1667	1657	58
29	Elise Mertens	1664	1701	110
30	Peyton Stearns	1660	1610	48
31	Maja Chwalinska	1657	1609	14
32	Jil Teichmann	1650	1554	75
33	Amanda Anisimova	1633	1793	65
34	Paula Badosa	1633	1653	87
35	Camila Osorio	1632	1585	80
36	Jaqueline Cristian	1631	1647	66
37	Anna Kalinskaya	1629	1682	54
38	Veronika Kudermetova	1621	1612	86
39	Marie Bouzkova	1617	1626	60
40	Anhelina Kalinina	1613	1536	75
41	Maria Sakkari	1612	1636	106
42	Yulia Putintseva	1610	1616	113
43	Victoria Azarenka	1608	1659	58
44	Donna Vekic	1607	1593	68
45	Solana Sierra	1605	1552	20
46	Lois Boisson	1600	1565	19
47	Julia Riera	1599	1562	29
48	Ann Li	1598	1574	40
49	Kaja Juvan	1597	1538	37
50	Elizara Yaneva	1596	1596	9