Mpetshi Perricard's sizzling ace match average leaves rivals in dust
pGiovanni Mpetshi Perricard is the new ace king of the ATP Tour./ppLeveraging his 6rsquo;8rdquo; frame, the 21-year-old Frenchman has used his serve to devastating effect in 2024, serving on average five aces more per match than any other player./pplsquo;Giorsquo; has fired 87 aces across four matches this week en route to the Swiss Indoors Basel final, topping even his jaw-dropping season average of 17.8 aces a match, which is a significantly higher mark than any other player on tour according to Infosys ATP Match Stats./p[ATP APP]pComing into Basel, Mpetshi Perricard had served 375 aces across 21 matches. That mark was five aces more per match than Hubert Hurkacz, who has the next best 2024 match average of 12.8. (The Pole has served more total aces than any player this season, with 730 untouched serves in 57 matches.)/ppHis booming deliveries have proven to be a key to his rise. After starting the 2024 season outside the Top 200, the young star is up to a career-high No. 37 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, after reaching the final of the ATP 500 this week. Mpetshi Perricard also claimed his maiden tour-level title in Lyon in May./ppstrongMost Aces Per Match in 2024/strong/pptable tbody tr tdstrongPlayer/strong/td tdstrongAces/strong/td tdstrongMatchesnbsp;/strong/td tdstrongAvg./strong/td /tr tr tdnbsp;M-Perricard/td td375/td td21/td td17.8/td /tr tr tdnbsp;Hurkacz/td td730/td td57/td td12.8/td /tr tr tdnbsp;Bublik/td td519/td td46/td td11.2/td /tr tr tdnbsp;Rinderknech/td td400/td td39/td td10.2/td /tr tr tdnbsp;Struff/td td418/td td42/td td9.9/td /tr /tbody/tablebr /
Numbers do not include play at this week's ATP 500s in Basel and Vienna/pp/ppWhen including this weekrsquo;s serving exploits in Basel, lsquo;Giorsquo; has fired 462 aces in 25 matches this year at an average of 18.5 aces per match./ppFor year-to-date averages ahead of this weekrsquo;s ATP 500s in Basel and Vienna, Alexander Bublik is third on the list with an average of 11.2 aces in 46 matches this season. Mpetshi Perricardrsquo;s countryman Arthur Rinderknech is fourth, averaging 10.2 aces per match. German veteran Jan-Lennard Struff, who is closing in on 4000 career aces, holds an average of 9.9 aces per match in 42 contests this season./ppMpetshi Perricard served 17 aces in his 7-6(6), 6-4 upset of Holger Rune Saturday to advance to the Basel final, where he will play another one of the game's biggest servers, Ben Shelton./pp[NEWSLETTER FORM]/p