Frances Tiafoe
ATP No. 8 · 3,380 ptsESPN ATP feed 24 Sep 2026Right-handed19 charted matches · 5 Jan 2024 to 26 Mar 2026
Ranking
No. 8
2025 year-end 30 · best 16 in 2023
Serve points won
64.3%
−2.4 pts vs US peers
Return points won
32.5%
−2.8 pts vs US peers
Charted record
5–12
DR 0.91 · 3,056 points charted
Ranking trajectory
year-end ranking, log scale · grey lines are the other fourServe profile
1,516 service points charted| Measure | Tiafoe | US men top 5 | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st serve in | 58.7% | 63.7% | |
| 1st serve points won | 71.8% | 73.6% | |
| 2nd serve points won | 53.7% | 53.8% | |
| Ace rate | 6.3% | 9.8% | 96 aces |
| Double fault rate | 2.6% | 2.8% | 40 double faults |
| Break points saved | 53.6% | 62.3% | 60 of 112 |
First serves in, by target
889 servesSecond serves in, by target
585 servesSeen from behind the server. Shading and the big figure are the share of serves into each third of the box; pills are points won and serve count. Green and red mark the best and worst zone with 25 or more serves.
Return and rally
1,540 return points · 64.4% of returns put in playPoints won by rally length
serve counts as shot one; double faults left outReturn depth
returns in play with a recorded depth26%
43%
31%
Shallow
222 returns · 36.5% won
Deep
368 returns · 49.7% won
Very deep
266 returns · 50.8% won
Shallow lands inside the service line, deep in the front half of the backcourt, very deep in the back half. Won is the share of those return points the player went on to win.
Rally-shot direction
every charted forehand and backhand after the returnForehand
Backhand
Seen from behind Frances. Arrow width and the white pill are that direction's share of the wing; the coloured pill is the share of points won when the shot was hit (green best, red worst, grey under 60 shots).
Surface splits
charted matches since Jan 2024| Surface | Matches | W–L | Serve won | Return won | DR | Service pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard | 15 | 3–10 | 64.4% | 31.5% | 0.88 | 1,151 |
| Clay | 4 | 2–2 | 64.1% | 35.6% | 0.99 | 365 · small sample |
Recent charted matches · 12 of 19
newest first · each links to its Tennis Abstract chart| Date | Event | Rd | Opponent | Result | Serve won | Return won | Aces | DF | W / UE | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2026 | Miami Masters · Hard | QF | Jannik Sinner | L 2-6 2-6 | 49.1% | 20.9% | 4 | 1 | 14 / 19 | chart |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Miami Masters · Hard | R32 | Jakub Mensik | W 7-6 4-6 7-6 | 71.0% | 23.4% | 6 | 3 | 27 / 21 | chart |
| 23 Jan 2026 | Australian Open · Hard | R32 | Alex De Minaur | L 3-6 4-6 5-7 | 56.4% | 32.0% | 6 | 1 | 23 / 43 | chart |
| 7 Jan 2026 | Brisbane · Hard | R16 | Daniil Medvedev | L 3-6 2-6 | 61.9% | 22.9% | 3 | 0 | 17 / 15 | chart |
| 3 Jun 2025 | Roland Garros · Clay | QF | Lorenzo Musetti | L 2-6 6-4 5-7 2-6 | 59.6% | 28.0% | 4 | 0 | 35 / 50 | chart |
| 1 Jun 2025 | Roland Garros · Clay | R16 | Daniel Altmaier | W 6-3 6-4 7-6 | 67.7% | 44.4% | 6 | 0 | 43 / 40 | chart |
| 30 May 2025 | Roland Garros · Clay | R32 | Sebastian Korda | W 7-6 6-3 6-4 | 75.0% | 35.5% | 9 | 5 | 38 / 37 | chart |
| 6 Apr 2025 | Houston · Clay | F | Jenson Brooksby | L 4-6 2-6 | 47.3% | 34.5% | 0 | 2 | 16 / 26 | chart |
| 2 Jan 2025 | Brisbane · Hard | R16 | Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard | L 4-6 6-7 | 65.3% | 32.0% | 6 | 2 | 28 / 15 | chart |
| 26 Sep 2024 | Tokyo · Hard | R32 | Brandon Nakashima | L 5-7 3-6 | 64.9% | 27.9% | 8 | 1 | 33 / 22 | chart |
| 6 Sep 2024 | US Open · Hard | SF | Taylor Fritz | L 6-4 5-7 6-4 4-6 1-6 | 64.1% | 29.0% | 11 | 9 | 40 / 53 | chart |
| 3 Sep 2024 | US Open · Hard | QF | Grigor Dimitrov | — 6-3 6-7 6-3 4-1 unfinished | 70.1% | 42.3% | 3 | 5 | 21 / 40 | chart |
Glossary
- Charted matches
- · matches of this player coded point by point for the Match Charting Project since 1 Jan 2024; a volunteer-chosen sample, heavier on big events
- vs US peers
- · difference from the other four top US men, pooled over their charted points (serve 66.7%, return 35.3%)
- US top 5
- · the five players in this tour group including this one, pooled
- 2nd serve points won
- · points won after a missed first serve, double faults counted as lost
- Serve target
- · the chart's serve direction code (wide, body, T) on the deuce or ad side, taken from the score before the point
- Rally length
- · serve plus every shot that landed in; the error that ends a point is not counted
- Rally-shot direction
- · the project's own crosscourt / middle / down-the-line / inside-out / inside-in classification of rally forehands and backhands
- Result, unfinished
- · set scores rebuilt from the point log; a chart that stops early (retirement or partial chart) shows no result and is left out of W–L
- DR
- · dominance ratio: return points won divided by serve points lost