How does the tennis ranking work in Belgium?

For adults (15 and over), the ladder starts at 3 points for a beginner, moves to 5 points, then climbs in steps of 5 points up to 110 points. The 115-point ranking is reserved for players with at least 10 ATP or WTA points.

It is a pyramid: each ranking corresponds to a fixed percentage of players. For example, around 19% of women and 18.6% of men sit at 5 points, against 0.1% at 110 points. From 95 points upwards, an order number (index) is added to the ranking: it is used to determine tournament seeds and player order in interclub.

Juniors have their own pyramids per age category (under 9, under 11, under 13), with rankings from .8 (beginner) to .1. The very best under-13 players (the top 0.5% of their pyramid) move straight into the adult pyramid with a ranking of at least 30 points.

For each tournament category you enter, you earn the sum of three types of points:

• Round reached: points based on how far you go in the draw, weighted by the number of entrants (from 60% of the points with 2 or 3 entrants to 110% from 32 entrants).
• Win bonus: points for every win, based on the ranking value of your opponent.
• Participation bonus: 2 points per match played, except if you lose your first match.

At calculation time, your 6 best results (tournaments and interclub combined) from the previous 12 months are added up, then divided by 6. If you scored points in fewer than 6 competitions, the total is weighted: 80% for a single competition, 84% for two, 88% for three, 92% for four and 96% for five. Playing regularly pays off.

Interclub counts as one competition among your best 6. Your 3 best wins are taken into account: with 3 wins, the points are valued at 100% and divided by 3; with 2 wins, at 80% divided by 2; with 1 win, at 60%. Without a win, your interclub simply does not count, although the matches played do count towards the 2 official matches threshold.

Note: interclub, inter-series and inter-region competitions are always played with the ranking calculated in October, even after the May ranking is published.

Moving up depends on the number of matches won over the period: no promotion without a win, 1 ranking maximum with 1 or 2 wins, 2 rankings maximum with 3 or 4 wins. From 5 wins and at least 2 competitions, promotion is unlimited. Walkover (WO) wins do not count towards these thresholds.

Going down is limited to 1 ranking per calculation, and a calculated player cannot lose a ranking at two consecutive calculations. However, a player who goes 18 months without playing enough (0 or 1 match) automatically drops one ranking.

In 2026, the first calculation takes place in the week of 11 May (results from 12 May 2025 to 10 May 2026) and the second in the week of 28 September (results from 20 October 2025 to 27 September 2026). The new rankings are published at the latest 10 days after the calculation.

Tournaments running during the calculation period are still played with the old ranking. Example for 2026: until Tuesday 26 May, you register for tournaments ending on Sunday 7 June with the October 2025 rankings; from Wednesday 27 May, tournaments ending on 14 June and later are played with the May 2026 rankings.

GameSetMatch brings together the rankings, results and history of players from both federations on a single profile per player. You can track your progress, compare rankings and browse the history of any competitive player in Belgium.