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<\/p>\nWhile nationality plays less of a role in tennis than other sports, the end of the season has given us a chance to crunch the numbers and see which countries are the best in the world at producing high-level tennis players.<\/p>\n
Away from the Davis Cup and the Olympics, a player\u2019s nationality is only really thought of by his home crowd but data behind the ATP Tour reveals some interesting statistics about who are the most efficient and who are the best producers of top-level men\u2019s players.<\/p>\n
With the 2025 season over and the rankings locked into place, we have taken the top 100 men\u2019s players currently, divided them up into nationalities and crunched the numbers to see which nation can have bragging rights.<\/p>\n
There are some caveats though as the Russian-born Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov all play under a neutral flag following the country\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Other than that, it\u2019s all straightforward so here\u2019s what the data says:<\/p>\n
While the US can often be found lagging behind in other sports, tennis has long been part of the American culture and it should come as little surprise that the country is the biggest supplier of top-level players currently.<\/p>\n
15 of the top 100 players are Americans with Taylor Fritz the highest ranked amongst them at No.6. Joining him in the top 10 is Ben Shelton at nine.<\/p>\n
However, the States is just one ahead of France with the best ranked French player being Arthur Rinderknech at No.29.<\/p>\n
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Despite this, France has never really had a superstar player in the same way that the other Grand Slam venues have. While Suzanne Lenglen is considered the best French woman to play the game, the men\u2019s side is more up for debate.<\/p>\n
Yannick Noah has a good claim and remains the last Frenchman to win the French Open while Ren\u00e9 Lacoste was a three-time Roland Garros champion.<\/p>\n
After the US and France, there is a drop down in the numbers with Italy, Argentina, Australia and Spain all producing between six and eight players.<\/p>\n
Countries sorted by number of top 100 players<\/em><\/p>\n 1. USA \u2013 15 As for which country produces the best players, the current kingmaker is Italy.<\/p>\n If we discount countries that have fewer than five players in the top 100, Italy has the lowest average ranking at 36.<\/p>\n Undoubtedly, Jannik Sinner being ranked second in the world helps with this but Italians are consistently ranked quite highly. Lorenzo Musetti is No.8 with Flavio Cobolli and Luciano Darderi in the 20s. Even their lowest-ranked player \u2013 Mattia Bellucci \u2013 is No.74.<\/p>\n The US averages 45.8 for their ranking with Fritz and Shelton helping to bring the average down while France is relatively low down with an average of 60.43.<\/p>\n If we include countries with fewer than five top 100 players, Norway is top of the list with No.12 Casper Ruud being their only player. They are closely followed by their Scandinavian neighbours Denmark with Holger Rune in 15th.<\/p>\n At the very bottom of the list is Japan with their sole representative being Shintaro Mochizuki who is ranked 100th.<\/p>\n Countries sorted by average ranking<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Norway \u2013 12.00 Of course, when you have a population size of over 300 million, the chances of some of those being good at tennis is quite high so what about when we factor in population?<\/p>\n If we take population as recorded by the latest United Nations Population Division divided by the number of top 100 players, we can see that there are a number of overperforming smaller nations.<\/p>\n While Monaco, with its 38,341 residents of which Valentin Vacherot is one, is top, the most impressive nations are Serbia and Czechia.<\/p>\n Serbia, led by Novak Djokovic, has a population size of 6,689,039 and four top 100 players, meaning that for every 1,672,260 people, there is a top tennis player amongst them.<\/p>\n Czechia is not far behind with a population size of 10,609,239. That means they have a top tennis player in every 2,652,310 in the country.<\/p>\n At the other end of the scale, Brazil are the biggest underachievers with one player in the top 100 of the 212,812,405 living there.<\/p>\n Worse still would be India and China who have over 1.4 billion residents but no player in the top 100 with the countries focusing on other sports.<\/p>\n Countries sorted by population per top 100 player<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Monaco \u2013 38,341 Of the four Slam hosts, the US comes out on top in almost all of them.<\/p>\n The country had produced 15 players compared to France\u2019s 14, Australia\u2019s six and the UK\u2019s three. Average ranking wise, only the UK (36) has a better average ranking than the US\u2019 45.8. France is on 60.43 while Australia\u2019s is on 67.67.<\/p>\n However, in comparison to how many players they have per population size, France and Australia are the leaders at 4,760,772 and 4,495,671 respectively. The US is on 23,151,720 while the UK is the biggest underachiever at 23,183,777.<\/p>\n Read next: Former world No 5 who played Serena Williams makes lavish claim about icon\u2019s potential comeback<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Which country produces the most and best ATP players on the tour?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While nationality plays less of a role in tennis than other sports, the end of the season has given us a chance to crunch the numbers and see which countries are the best in the world at producing high-level tennis players. 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\n2. France \u2013 14
\n3. Italy \u2013 8
\n4. Argentina \u2013 7
\n5. Spain \u2013 6
\n6. Australia \u2013 6
\n7. Czechia \u2013 4
\n8. Serbia \u2013 4
\n9. Canada \u2013 3
\n10. UK \u2013 3
\n11. Germany \u2013 3
\n12. Hungary \u2013 3
\n13. Netherlands \u2013 3
\n14. Kazakhstan \u2013 2
\n15. Belgium \u2013 2
\n16. Poland \u2013 2
\n17. Chile \u2013 2
\n18. Norway \u2013 1
\n19. Denmark \u2013 1
\n20. Brazil \u2013 1
\n21. Monaco \u2013 1
\n22. Greece \u2013 1
\n23. Portugal \u2013 1
\n24. Bosnia \u2013 1
\n25. Croatia \u2013 1
\n26. Austria \u2013 1
\n27. Japan \u2013 1<\/p>\nItaly produces the best players on average<\/h2>\n
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\n2. Denmark \u2013 15.00
\n3. Canada \u2013 23.00
\n4. Brazil \u2013 24.00
\n5. Monaco \u2013 31.00
\n6. Greece \u2013 34.00
\n7. UK \u2013 36.00
\n8. Italy \u2013 36.00
\n9. Czechia \u2013 41.00
\n10. Germany \u2013 44.33
\n11. USA \u2013 45.80
\n12. Portugal \u2013 47.00
\n13. Hungary \u2013 50.00
\n14. Kazakhstan \u2013 53.00
\n15. Spain \u2013 54.17
\n16. Argentina \u2013 56.86
\n17. Serbia \u2013 59.25
\n18. Netherlands \u2013 59.33
\n19. France \u2013 60.43
\n20. Belgium \u2013 65.00
\n21. Bosnia \u2013 65.00
\n22. Poland \u2013 67.50
\n23. Australia \u2013 67.67
\n24. Croatia \u2013 75.00
\n25. Austria \u2013 79.00
\n26. Chile \u2013 80.50
\n27. Japan \u2013 100.00<\/p>\nSerbia and Czechia produce the best in comparison to size<\/h2>\n
\n2. Serbia \u2013 1,672,260
\n3. Czechia \u2013 2,652,310
\n4. Bosnia \u2013 3,140,095
\n5. Hungary \u2013 3,210,762
\n6. Croatia \u2013 3,848,160
\n7. Australia \u2013 4,495,671
\n8. France \u2013 4,760,772
\n9. Norway \u2013 ,623,071
\n10. Belgium \u2013 5,879,302
\n11. Denmark \u2013 6,002,507
\n12. Netherlands \u2013 6,115,606
\n13. Argentina \u2013 6,550,197
\n14. Italy \u2013 7,393,283
\n15. Spain \u2013 7,981,660
\n16. Austria \u2013 9,113,574
\n17. Chile \u2013 9,929,961
\n18. Greece \u2013 9,938,844
\n19. Portugal \u2013 10,411,834
\n20. Kazakhstan \u2013 10,421,877
\n21. Canada \u2013 13,375,574
\n22. Poland \u2013 19,070,455
\n23. USA \u2013 23,151,720
\n24. UK \u2013 23,183,777
\n25. Germany \u2013 28,025,025
\n26. Japan \u2013 123,103,479
\n27. Brazil \u2013 212,812,405<\/p>\nWho is the best of the Grand Slam hosts?<\/h2>\n