The two tennis tours – the ATP Tour for men and WTA for women – both have official rankings lists that provide an at-a-glance view of the best players in the world, using a merit-based scoring system that lists players in order of their recent performances and achievements in the sport.
You can find out more about how rankings points for both ATP and WTA tennis tournaments below.
The ATP Tour’s official rankings show players ordered by points earned across tournaments played over the past 52 weeks, and are constantly refreshed and updated after each week.
The best 19 tournament performances count towards the ATP Rankings, meaning that players who play more tournaments don’t necessarily gain an advantage in the rankings.
Ranking points are earned through performances in tournaments throughout the year, with the bigger and more important tournaments awarding more points to successful players than smaller competitions.
The four Grand Slam tournaments offer the biggest ATP ranking points, with ATP Tour events graded at different levels to denote how many points are up for grabs.
The end-of-year ATP Finals feature the top-performing players from the tour that year, and offer qualifying players one final opportunity to earn ranking points.
The WTA Tour also uses a 52-week rolling period, updated and refreshed each week, but only counts the best 16 singles tournaments (11 for doubles players). These must include the four Grand Slam tournaments plus the four WTA 100 tournaments (except for tournaments missed due to injury or illness etc.).
Similarly to the ATP Tour, WTA Tour events are given different weightings, and therefore offer different levels of ranking points throughout the season.
Additional ranking points are also available for lower-level WTA 500, WTA 250, WTA 125 and ITF tournaments. The WTA Finals also award the winner up to 1,500 points, with a losing finalist able to win up to 1,080 points.
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