Looking back on a fantastic week in West London, we take a deep dive into the stats behind the best performers at the Queen’s Club – analysing all the numbers from players who played two or more matches in this year’s singles draw.

Top servers

To kick things off, let’s look at the best servers from the cinch Championships. Across the board there are three standout players – Sebastian Korda, Taylor Fritz and Holger Rune.

Korda finished the tournament as the clear ace leader. The 23-year-old American reached the semi-finals at the cinch Championships with a series of impressive wins against Cam Norrie, Frances Tiafoe and Dan Evans – racking up 44 aces along the way. To put that in perspective, Grigor Dimitrov was second with 26 aces having only played one less match.

Former Rothesay International Eastbourne champion Fritz proved the most efficient on serve – topping the table for percentage of first and second serve points won in his two matches – 82.86% (58/70) and 63.27% (31/49) respectively.

While it will come as no surprise that Korda also finished second in first serve points won (82.47% - 12/154), but it was Britain’s Ryan Peniston who ended right up there on second serve points won at an impressive 61.7% (29/47).

Semi-finalist Rune was almost unbreakable at Queen’s. In his wins over Lorenzo Musetti, Peniston and Maxime Cressy, as well as his clash with runner-up Alex de Minaur, Rune only dropped four of 44 service games – impressive stuff!

Top returners

Now we move onto the return, where we start to see why Alcaraz and De Minaur proved so strong throughout the week.

De Minaur topped leader board for both points won on the return of first serve – at an impressive 39.9% (77/193), 5% more than Dimitrov in second – and for return games won at over 30% (16/52). Alcaraz on the other hand managed to clinch 15 games against his opponent’s serve out of 54 games – including two crucial games in the final vs the Australian.

Interestingly, of all the players who played two or more matches in the week, Peniston led the field in points won on second serve with 68.09% (32/47) as the Brit looked to make the most of every opportunity, he had against serve.

Pressure points

So, which players performed best in the high pressure moments?

Let’s start with break points saved, where American Ben Shelton reigned supreme. In his first two matches on grass, Shelton managed to save 77.78% (14/18) break points he faced before bowing out to Musetti.

On the other side, break points converted, French star Adrian Mannarino converted eight of his 12 break point chances, proving clinical in the big moments against his opponent’s serve.