This article is about player weight in the ATP top 100 — and whether heavier players actually rank higher.
Height in tennis gets a lot of attention — serve height, reach, court coverage. Weight is discussed less, despite being equally recorded in every ATP player profile. We pulled the weight data for every player in the current top 100 and ran the numbers.
The extremes
The heaviest player in the ATP top 100 is G. Mpetshi Perricard (France), ranked 83rd, at 103kg. He is also one of the tallest at 201cm. His game is built almost entirely around a serve that, by recorded data, is among the fastest on tour.
The lightest player is D. Dzumhur (Bosnia-Herzegovina), ranked 87th, at 68kg. He is 175cm. At the elite level of professional tennis, 68kg is exceptionally light — most recreational club players weigh more.
The second heaviest is R. Opelka (United States), ranked 76th, at 102kg — and at 211cm he is the tallest player in the top 100. The two heaviest players in the top 100 are both big servers, both outside the top 50.
The distribution
The average weight in the ATP top 100 is 80.4kg (99 players with recorded weight; J. Struff has no weight in the ATP profile). The distribution clusters tightly between 74kg and 88kg, with the bulk of players sitting in that 14kg range. The extremes — Mpetshi Perricard at 103kg and Dzumhur at 68kg — are genuine outliers.
Does weight correlate with ranking?
Not in a simple way. The top 4 in the world:
| Player | Rank | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| J. Sinner | 1 | 77kg |
| C. Alcaraz | 2 | 74kg |
| A. Zverev | 3 | 90kg |
| N. Djokovic | 4 | 82kg |
The two lightest players in the top 4 — Sinner (77kg) and Alcaraz (74kg) — are ranked 1st and 2nd. Zverev at 90kg is 3rd. There is no consistent pattern.
What the data does suggest is a sweet spot around 75–85kg for top-10 players. Players significantly above or below that range (the big servers above 90kg, the lighter movers below 74kg) tend to cluster in the 50–100 rank range rather than the top 20.
The heaviest top-10 player
A. Zverev at 90kg is the heaviest player in the current top 10. D. Medvedev, ranked 8th, weighs 83kg. K. Khachanov weighs 87kg — he is currently ranked 15th.
Zverev’s 90kg combined with his 198cm frame gives him a serve that ranks among the most powerful on tour. It has not stopped him from being one of the most complete players in the game.
The lightest top-10 player
A. de Minaur (Australia), ranked 7th, weighs 69kg — the lightest player in the current top 10. He is also 183cm, giving him one of the lowest weight-to-height ratios on the entire tour. His game is built on speed and retrieval rather than power — a playing style that at 69kg is physically sustainable in a way it might not be at 90kg.
What the numbers mean
Professional tennis has no weight category. A 68kg player competes against a 103kg player on the same court, with the same ball, at the same net height. The 35kg spread within the top 100 is wider than most people would expect — and the fact that both extremes are competitive at that level says something about how varied the paths to the top 100 actually are.
All data from the Baseline Rank database, updated weekly from official ATP rankings. Player physical data sourced from official ATP profiles. Access full player data via the Baseline Rank API.