Ace (tennis)

John Isner holds the professional records for most aces in a match Wimbledon 2010, an entire tournament Wimbledon 2018, and also first on the most aces in career list .

John Isner has the most aces in a tournament with 214 during the 2018 Wimbledon,[5] and he has the most in a single match with 113 during his 11-hour encounter with Nicolas Mahut in 2010. John Isner has served the most aces with 14,470.[6][7]

Ivo Karlović has the most in a best-of-three-set match with 45 at Halle in 2015.[8] Two weeks later, during Wimbledon, he became the only player to hit at least 40 aces in three consecutive matches.[9]

Goran Ivanišević has the most in a single season with 1,477 in 1996.[10] He also has the second most in a tournament with 213 when he won the 2001 Wimbledon title.[5]

Roger Federer hit 50 aces in the 2009 Wimbledon final, the record for a Grand Slam final.[11] He is also third on the career list.[6]

* Note: This marked the third time that Isner had hit 100+ aces in a clay-court tournament.

#	Player	Event	Surface	Ref.
124	Martin Verkerk	2003 French Open	Clay	[17]
110	John Isner	2014 French Open
108	Michael Stich	1996 French Open
107	John Isner	2021 Madrid Open
101	John Isner	2017 Rome

Serena Williams holds the record for most aces in a tournament with 102 en route to winning the 2012 Wimbledon title.[54]

Karolína Plíšková has the most aces in a single season with 530 in 2016,[55] which broke her own record of 517 in 2015.[56] She has also served the most aces in a match on clay, with 21 in her second round victory over Jeļena Ostapenko at Stuttgart in 2021.[57]

There have been 32 matches played in which a player has served 20 or more aces, since 2008.[58]

#	Player	W/L	Opponent	Round	Event	Sets	Surface	Ref.
31	Kristýna Plíšková	L	Monica Puig	2R	2016 Australian Open	3	Hard	[58]
28	Kristýna Plíšková	L	Monica Puig	2R	2019 Luxembourg	3	Hard (i)
27	Sabine Lisicki	W	Belinda Bencic	2R	2015 Birmingham	2	Grass
	Caroline Garcia	L	Zhang Shuai	2R	2022 Tokyo	3	Hard	[59]
24	Kaia Kanepi	W	Lucie Šafářová	1R	2008 Tokyo	3	Hard	[60]
	Serena Williams	W	Victoria Azarenka	SF	2012 Wimbledon	2	Grass	[58]
	Kristýna Plíšková	W	Karolína Plíšková	2R	2019 Birmingham	3
	Karolína Plíšková	W	Amanda Anisimova	2R	2021 US Open	3	Hard	[61][62]
	Rebecca Marino	L	Caroline Garcia	2R	2022 Guadalajara Open Akron	3	Hard	[63]
23	Serena Williams	W	Zheng Jie	3R	2012 Wimbledon	3	Grass	[58]
	Kristýna Plíšková	L	Océane Dodin	1R	2016 Linz	3	Hard (i)
22	Brenda Schultz	W	Iva Majoli	QF	1994 Birmingham	3	Grass	[64]
	Meghann Shaughnessy	L	Nicole Vaidišová	F	2005 Memphis	2	Hard (i)	[65]
	Alicia Molik	L	Venus Williams	QF	2007 Tokyo	2	Hard
	Ekaterina Alexandrova	W	Kristie Ahn	QF	2019 Seoul	3		[58]
	Alison Van Uytvanck	L	Sofia Kenin	SF	2020 Lyon	3