Sinner, iga, coco, fritz, alcaraz, and arya

Jannik, Carlos, Iga, PaoPao, Jack. Honourable mentions: the Argentinian guys, Canadian girls, Czech b&g, and everybody playing doubles.

Sinner，Ruud，Zheng，Djokovic，Machac

Jannik, Fritz, Caspar, Coco, Iga

Alcaraz, Shelton, Ruud, Keys (she grew up in my hometown and went to the same tennis club I’d go to for hs practices and private lessons), and whoever Zverevs current opponent is lmao I’m a hater

Only Russia has 2 in the top 10 😎

Top 100 AUS, France & Italy comes out well

Chile is barely in with two (19th and 20th). Italy and France are not that far but it depends on Musetti/Mannarino.

Spain and Switzerland in shambles rn

If you include the WTA Top 20 then you can also add,

Poland (Swiatek/Hurkacz)

Greece (Tsitsipas/Sakkari)

Italy (Sinner/Paolini)

Fun fact. USA and Russia both have 1/4 of the Top 20 WTA players.

Moved to Atlanta just for the tennis. It did not disappoint.

I’ll co-sign on Atlanta. But access to free/inexpensive court time given the rise of pickleball had been a real issue in the last few years. That being said, there is no shortage of people to play and leagues to play in. The timing of the Atlanta open (R.I.P.) was always abysmal, but it always surprised me that we couldn’t support anything more than a men’s 250 level tour event. I hope that changes sometime soon.

Pros live in Florida for tax reasons and warm winters. I think southern CA is the best place to live as an amateur. About 300 days with good weather a year.

In addition to USTA we have a robust doubles league called ALTA which plays all four seasons. We also have a number of flex leagues (Ultimate Tennis, T2, League Tennis) for singles, doubles, or mixed with reasonable drive times to matches. There are maybe two weeks in the year where there is not some type of league tennis happening. Matches are my preferred way to play and improve but there are big tennis centers in each county that offer drills and other ways to play. We also have a good local chain of tennis gear stores called Your Serve that my family has been going to for 30+ years. Our one annual professional tournament just left but Atlanta is so spread out that it’s not a surprise that the tournament never found its fit. Sure, we have weather and that can put off matches, but weather is everywhere. Nothing can make you feel quite as invincible as winning a singles match in 90% humidity and 95 degrees.

Wilmington, NC has an enormous tennis community, relative to its population. Lessons for all levels, a ton of teaching pros, lots of facilities in city/county parks and high schools, country clubs and neighborhoods with private facilities, tournaments, leagues, ladders.....you name it, they have it. I pretty much play all year long except on days when it's really cold out, like below 40 degrees (temperate for some but after you're used to warm/hot weather, it's cold). The courts are mostly hard but we do have a couple of facilities with har-tru and I think all the country clubs have har-tru.

Lots of folks live in communities that have their own private courts. I go to my friends’ places or invite people to my gym that has courts.

It’s a great place to play tennis year-round. But so is California. If you remember when Isner said the Miami Open is more prestigious than Indian Wells due to hundreds of thousands less to pay in taxes from one’s winnings, well — he might obsess about taxes more than most due to his MAGA politics, but the reality is lots of athletes think like him. So ultimately, it’s a combination of both. It would have been one of the 2 most popular states for tennis in the US regardless, but it’s probably #1 over California due to its tax code

It’s a big mix: country clubs, neighborhood association courts (which are semi-private, but not a country club) and public courts.

I play in multiple leagues and I think the neighborhood association courts are most common type I end up at, but it’s fairly evenly distributed.

Not true at all, there are soooooo many tennis courts in Atlanta. I think a lot of people just tend to stick to what they know and dont bother to look for more.

Atlanta. Number of players is enormous. ATLA, the largest org for the leagues, has ~25 different levels of play, all filled with teams.

You can play all year round. Yes, it’s warm and humid in the summer, but not nearly as bad as places like Houston. Rest of the year is great.

On my block, which has ~26 houses, 14 adults play in an ALTA league, as one example of the participation levels.

Coleman Wong, Ignacio Buse for the men

Aoi Ito, Panna Udvardy, Emerson Jones, Francesca Jones, Destiny Aiava, Ella Seidel for the women.

All my men’s favs (besides Arthur and Jesper) ended up getting eliminated already 😭 but I’m thinking Prizmic and Mochizuki should be able to win their matches and hoping for a Wong win too

Can’t believe Struff is having to qualify

Let's go Coleman! 

Wu-Heads rise up

While Pulisic will undoubtedly take the clear lead in few years, as far as I can tell right now the top ones are close enough that we can't be sure who is richest. Estimates on Pulisic's net worth look to be around $15-$20 million, which is the same ballpark as Donovan and Dempsey, and only a little above Michael Bradley or Mia Hamm.

ETA: u/space_coyote6 got it right, I missed Brooks in the low $20s, who looks to be the reasonably clear winner.

Probably the Bundesliga lifers like Brooks, J Jones, F Johnson are up there.

Mia Hamm. Half of Nomahh's money...c'mon folks!!!!

I would bet Donovan or one of the womens players who likely made far more in endorsements.

Guys like Bocanegra and Berhalter might not be at the top now but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were in the $8-$10 million range based on their combined playing and coaching/front office earnings, and considering relative longevity and continuity in earnings while knowing nothing about their spousal earnings.

A long time ago I played a USTA top 50 in boys 18s who went on to play singles at top D1 program that fall. During warmups, I was redlining because I wanted to prove to myself and anyone watching that I could hang with this guy. Meanwhile, he was casually chatting with a buddy on the court next to us. The result was a double bagel but I did get to deuce in several games.

Many years later, I played a woman who formerly had a WTA ranking in the 800s. She was coming back from a layoff and slumming it in my league mostly 4.5 and 5.0 men. I was her first match back and was lucky enough to win in a third set tiebreak. She destroyed everyone else she played after that.

Got to play a high level D1 player in a charity tournament (open level, 5.0+) Back when I thought I was half decent. He played some futures. Got a wildcard into some local challengers. I was playing the best tennis of my life at the time. I lost 6-0, 6-0. He was not trying.

Not sure of their rank, but a cement wall. They seem to get every ball back.

I played a career high doubles 564 in USTA open doubles league. I think he had to self rate 7.0 and would casually flick kick serves above my head (6’2”).

I'm in my 40s and usually only able to play once a week, so I typically play at a weak 4.5 level these days. I was pretty happy with the win.

Jessie Pegula. She beat my a—

Because he looks and plays like 45-yo John Krasinski and also was absent from the circuit for 2 years

Brooksby just outside the top 100. He’ll be on this list soon!

He was top 20 in 2021

I don’t watch tennis as much as I used too, but seeing Tiafoe being ranked 12th is incredible to me lol. I thought that he was in the 30s-40s at best.

I mean, that sounds about right.

Since 2022 there have been 31 completed Masters.

Seven players have won multiple with 22 between them:  Alcaraz, Djokovic, Sinner, Medvedev, Zverev, Tsitsipas, and Rublev

Nine players have won one:  Fritz, Carreno Busta, Coric, Rune, Hurkacz, Popyrin, Draper, Mensik, Ruud.

Fritz is among the best one time winners.  Probably most similar to Ruud and Rublev (the latter clearly the "worst" of the 2+ time winners)

Tiafoe and Paul would fit in with the one time winners, but closer to the worst than the best.  

Shelton would also fit in with the one time winners, but more in line with the young but not megastar talent guys.

I like the kid a lot…he’s scrappy and I agree that his tennis IQ is high…one MASSIVE problem, he’s short. Maybe 5’10”…and while his serve will get better, it will only get 5’ 10” better…I just don’t think you can reach the top 10 consistently without a bigger serve and he can have the greatest 5’10” serve of all time, it’s just not going to get him enough free point against the top 25 to get there and stay there. I hope I’m wrong as I really like him, but I stood next to him last year and I’m 6’ and he might be 5’9” vs. 5’10”.

Opelka plays like he's 22. I swear all his matches have at least one tie break, due refuses to be aggressive on returns, he just loves serving

He has really great tennis IQ, and he is great at finding a way to win. I also really like his ball striking, he seems to have good variety. He often gets a slow start (broken early) but he seems to be really good at figuring out how to hurt his opponents and often still comes out with a win. He seems to be really strong mentally, even keeled and focused. This is just what I have observed, I have been watching him since he was in the next GEN finals last year

Same!! I'm eagerly awaiting a favourable GS draw for him so he can go deep.

abr, empo and either soulwind or mcmeghan. none of them are youtubers, sadly, but #5 (bkc) is. you should look him up

We all know it's Michaelderbeste

Well I'm a top 3 single (been single for 21 years) and I'm a showdown player so maybe me?

Has he ever been one of the top ranking players in any format ?

He's getting top cuts for smogon singles tours now too

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CTC at #15? Blunder and Pokeaim’s amigo? Ain’t no way!

Wym don't slander my glorious king, its 100% joey. My draft king GOAT

Nobody has scored more than Matthew Hoppe in the last two weeks, therefore he is the GOAT.

In all seriousness: Pulisic, Reyna, McKennie, Dest, Adams, Steffen seems to be the new young core. Plenty of other talented/promising pieces as well, but there’s no “best roster” without these guys on the pitch.

Check my post history, a couple days ago i had help with a lot of guys in this sub to make a tier list. That will tell you everything you need to know. Maybe Walker Zimmerman (RCB) and more goalkeepers should have been added but they all would’ve been C Tier.

Graham Zusi, Mix Diskerud, and Brek Shea are the current stars of the team

someone made a list earlier this week, this should be instructive

2026 is going to be fun.

And obviously michael bradley is still our best midfielder by a long shot