ATP Surface Speed Ratings

My metric uses ace rate--adjusted for the servers and returners in each match--to rate each tournament by surface speed. Thus, the number indirectly accounts for everything that influenced play: temperature, humidity, wind, balls, and of course the physical surface.

This table shows every tour-level event from the last 52 weeks. Ratings greater than 1 are faster than average. For example, a rating of 1.25 indicates that the players hit 25% more aces than they would have on a tour-average surface.

Surface ratings are available for every tour-level season back to 1991:

Updated weekly(ish). Last update: 2026-10-19

Date	Tournament	Surface	Ace%	Surface Speed
2026-02-02	Montpellier	Hard	19.8%	1.49
2026-09-23	Chengdu	Hard	13.6%	1.48
2026-02-09	Dallas	Hard	16.5%	1.47
2025-11-09	Tour Finals	Hard	11.7%	1.41
2026-09-23	Hangzhou	Hard	14.1%	1.36
2025-10-20	Basel	Hard	14.0%	1.36
2025-11-02	Metz	Hard	12.6%	1.33
2025-11-02	Athens	Hard	14.5%	1.32
2026-10-07	Shanghai Masters	Hard	12.7%	1.32
2025-10-13	Brussels	Hard	12.9%	1.31
2026-06-08	Stuttgart	Grass	17.7%	1.31
2026-02-16	Delray Beach	Hard	13.6%	1.30
2025-12-17	Next Gen Finals	Hard	11.6%	1.28
2026-02-23	Dubai	Hard	15.9%	1.28
2025-10-20	Vienna	Hard	12.7%	1.22
2026-06-21	Mallorca	Grass	11.0%	1.18
2026-03-18	Miami Masters	Hard	12.3%	1.18
2026-06-15	Halle	Grass	13.8%	1.18
2026-01-04	Brisbane	Hard	14.6%	1.16
2026-06-22	Eastbourne	Grass	11.9%	1.16
2026-03-04	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	11.4%	1.16
2026-08-13	Cincinnati Masters	Hard	11.7%	1.13
2026-01-19	Australian Open	Hard	11.9%	1.12
2026-07-27	Washington	Hard	12.5%	1.12
2026-02-23	Acapulco	Hard	12.2%	1.10
2026-06-29	Wimbledon	Grass	11.9%	1.09
2026-01-12	Auckland	Hard	11.8%	1.08
2026-09-30	Beijing	Hard	11.5%	1.07
2026-01-05	United Cup	Hard	14.0%	1.07
2025-10-13	Almaty	Hard	9.7%	1.05
2026-01-05	Hong Kong	Hard	11.4%	1.04
2026-01-12	Adelaide	Hard	9.8%	1.03
2026-08-23	Winston-Salem	Hard	10.9%	1.03
2026-06-15	Queen's Club	Grass	10.5%	1.02
2026-08-31	Us Open	Hard	10.7%	0.96
2026-02-16	Rio de Janeiro	Clay	8.2%	0.96
2026-03-30	Marrakech	Clay	8.0%	0.95
2025-10-13	Stockholm	Hard	10.7%	0.95
2026-06-08	s Hertogenbosch	Grass	11.0%	0.94
2026-09-30	Tokyo	Hard	9.3%	0.94
2025-10-27	Paris Masters	Hard	10.2%	0.93
2026-07-13	Gstaad	Clay	11.2%	0.92
2026-02-16	Doha	Hard	9.1%	0.89
2026-02-09	Rotterdam	Hard	11.1%	0.88
2026-08-02	Canada Masters	Hard	9.3%	0.86
2026-04-22	Madrid Masters	Clay	8.9%	0.86
2026-02-23	Santiago	Clay	7.7%	0.81
2026-07-20	Kitzbuhel	Clay	9.2%	0.75
2026-04-13	Munich	Clay	7.2%	0.70
2026-07-13	Umag	Clay	5.2%	0.70
2026-03-30	Houston	Clay	9.0%	0.68
2026-07-13	Bastad	Clay	7.7%	0.66
2026-05-06	Rome Masters	Clay	6.8%	0.66
2026-05-17	Geneva	Clay	7.0%	0.65
2026-04-05	Monte Carlo Masters	Clay	5.9%	0.57
2026-07-20	Estoril	Clay	5.3%	0.55
2026-07-27	Los Cabos	Hard	5.5%	0.54
2026-03-30	Bucharest	Clay	4.4%	0.53
2026-04-13	Barcelona	Clay	5.0%	0.52
2026-05-17	Hamburg	Clay	5.1%	0.51
2026-02-09	Buenos Aires	Clay	4.4%	0.51
2026-09-25	Laver Cup	Hard	4.4%	0.45