Taylor Fritz
ATP No. 12 · 2,880 ptsESPN ATP feed 24 Sep 2026Right-handed63 charted matches · 1 Jan 2024 to 26 Jan 2026
Ranking
No. 12
2025 year-end 6 · best 4 in 2024
Serve points won
71.2%
+7.2 pts vs US peers
Return points won
34.3%
−1.2 pts vs US peers
Charted record
38–24
DR 1.19 · 9,968 points charted
Ranking trajectory
year-end ranking, log scale · grey lines are the other fourServe profile
4,871 service points charted| Measure | Fritz | US men top 5 | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st serve in | 63.3% | 63.7% | |
| 1st serve points won | 79.3% | 73.6% | |
| 2nd serve points won | 57.1% | 53.8% | |
| Ace rate | 14.2% | 9.8% | 694 aces |
| Double fault rate | 2.1% | 2.8% | 104 double faults |
| Break points saved | 63.6% | 62.3% | 157 of 247 |
First serves in, by target
3,084 servesSecond serves in, by target
1,684 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
5,084 return points · 68.5% 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 depth25%
41%
34%
Shallow
697 returns · 36.7% won
Deep
1156 returns · 46.1% won
Very deep
935 returns · 53.5% 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 Taylor. 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 | 40 | 24–16 | 70.8% | 34.7% | 1.19 | 3,036 |
| Clay | 13 | 7–6 | 69.5% | 34.4% | 1.13 | 797 |
| Grass | 10 | 7–2 | 73.5% | 32.9% | 1.24 | 1,038 |
Recent charted matches · 12 of 63
newest first · each links to its Tennis Abstract chart| Date | Event | Rd | Opponent | Result | Serve won | Return won | Aces | DF | W / UE | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2026 | Australian Open · Hard | R16 | Lorenzo Musetti | L 2-6 5-7 4-6 | 60.7% | 21.0% | 10 | 1 | 22 / 36 | chart |
| 10 Jan 2026 | United Cup · Hard | SF | Hubert Hurkacz | L 6-7 6-7 | 68.5% | 25.0% | 12 | 0 | 24 / 24 | chart |
| 14 Nov 2025 | Tour Finals · Hard | RR | Alex De Minaur | L 6-7 3-6 | 60.9% | 30.3% | 8 | 1 | 18 / 28 | chart |
| 10 Nov 2025 | Tour Finals · Hard | RR | Lorenzo Musetti | W 6-3 6-4 | 76.8% | 43.0% | 13 | 0 | 34 / 21 | chart |
| 5 Oct 2025 | Shanghai Masters · Hard | R32 | Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard | L 4-6 5-7 | 72.1% | 21.1% | 9 | 1 | 23 / 7 | chart |
| 30 Sep 2025 | Tokyo · Hard | F | Carlos Alcaraz | L 4-6 4-6 | 57.6% | 34.9% | 6 | 3 | 30 / 21 | chart |
| 29 Sep 2025 | Tokyo · Hard | SF | Jenson Brooksby | W 6-4 6-3 | 74.2% | 36.2% | 13 | 0 | 34 / 14 | chart |
| 2 Sep 2025 | US Open · Hard | QF | Novak Djokovic | L 3-6 5-7 6-3 4-6 | 66.4% | 34.5% | 12 | 5 | 39 / 38 | chart |
| 1 Sep 2025 | US Open · Hard | R16 | Tomas Machac | W 6-4 6-3 6-3 | 81.2% | 38.3% | 14 | 2 | 44 / 18 | chart |
| 24 Aug 2025 | US Open · Hard | R128 | Emilio Nava | W 7-5 6-2 6-3 | 73.9% | 40.4% | 11 | 5 | 22 / 31 | chart |
| 5 Aug 2025 | Canada Masters · Hard | QF | Andrey Rublev | W 6-3 7-6 | 74.0% | 31.6% | 20 | 3 | 40 / 19 | chart |
| 1 Aug 2025 | Canada Masters · Hard | R32 | Gabriel Diallo | W 6-4 6-2 | 79.2% | 44.4% | 5 | 0 | 21 / 18 | 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 64.0%, return 35.5%)
- 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