Which players Standm users name as favourites
Carlos Alcaraz is the most-named favourite player among Standm users: 11 of the 21 who named a player chose him (panel of 23, 17 May–19 August 2026).
When someone joins Standm they are asked which players they follow, and that answer is what Standm matches them on. This page reports what those answers look like across the whole user base to date. It is a small panel and it is described exactly as it is below, because a number worth quoting is a number worth stating honestly.
The full count
Every player named by two or more people on the panel. Users may name more than one player, so the counts sum to more than the number of users.
| Player | Users naming them | |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Alcaraz | 11 | |
| Jannik Sinner | 8 | |
| Iga Świątek | 6 | |
| Aryna Sabalenka | 3 | |
| Lionel Messi | 3 | |
| Novak Djokovic | 3 | |
| Taylor Fritz | 3 | |
| Coco Gauff | 2 | |
| Elena Rybakina | 2 | |
| Jessica Pegula | 2 | |
| New York Yankees | 2 | |
| Patrick Mahomes | 2 | |
| Roger Federer | 2 | |
| Shohei Ohtani | 2 |
The same table as a file: favourite-players.csv. Published under CC BY 4.0 — reuse it, with attribution to Standm.
Four of the fourteen are not tennis players at all — Lionel Messi, the New York Yankees, Patrick Mahomes and Shohei Ohtani. Below this line every remaining pick was named exactly once, across football, baseball, basketball, American football and motorsport.
How this was measured
- Panel: 23 Standm users who completed the onboarding questionnaire, of whom 21 named at least one favourite player.
- Period: responses recorded between 17 May 2026 and 19 August 2026.
- Source: Standm's own onboarding questionnaire — the same answers the matching system uses, not a survey run separately.
- Excluded: load-test accounts, and the founder's own accounts. Both of the founder's accounts had named Alcaraz; leaving them in would have reported 13 of 23 instead of 11 of 21.
- Counting: a user naming several players is counted once for each. Counts are stated as counts, not percentages, because a panel of 23 does not support a percentage.
What this is not
This is not a survey of tennis fans in general. It describes who has joined Standm so far, on a panel small enough to name in full, and nothing beyond that. It is published because it is a measurement nobody else holds, not because it settles anything about tennis fandom at large.
Standm matches tennis fans by the players they follow, then puts them in pods — group chats built around one player. Standm is free on iPhone.