RANK NAME MPH KPH TOURNAMENT
1 Venus Williams (USA) 129.0 207.6 2007 US Open
2 Serena Williams (USA) 128.6 207.0 2013 Australian Open
3 Julia Goerges (GER) 126.1 203.0 2012 French Open
4 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) 126.0 202.7 2007 Indian Wells
5 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 125.0 201.2 2011 Stanford
6 Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) 125.0 201.1 2009 Indian Wells
7 Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 124.9 201.0 2007 French Open
8 Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 124.3 200.0 2009 French Open
9 Tatjana Malek (GER) 124.0 199.6 2012 US Open
10 Li Na (CHN) 123.7 199.0 2010 French Open
RANK NAME MPH KPH TOURNAMENT
1 Venus Williams (USA) 129.0 207.6 2007 US Open
2 Serena Williams (USA) 128.6 207.0 2013 Australian Open
3 Julia Goerges (GER) 126.1 203.0 2012 French Open
4 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) 126.0 202.7 2007 Indian Wells
5 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 125.0 201.2 2011 Stanford
6 Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) 125.0 201.1 2009 Indian Wells
7 Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 124.9 201.0 2007 French Open
8 Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 124.3 200.0 2009 French Open 9 Tatjana Malek (GER) 124.0 199.6 2012 US Open
10 Li Na (CHN) 123.7 199.0 2010 French Open
Some of those look kinda suspicious; i mean, i have never seen Na Li hit a server over 180 kmh or Goerges over 190 kmh; also, i don't think malek can hit such big serves
Maybe ErrorNa was in complete ball bash mode and wanted to see how hard she could bash her serve into the court/net/back fence/crowd and it went in :lol:
Didn't Venus hit 130 in Zurich '08? That was strangely never documented by the WTA. And I'm assuming that Lisicki's 206kph serve from Bali was a freak speed gun error.
I think we can take these figures with a pinch of salt to be honest. The radar gun really isn't that accurate and does throw up a few anomalous readings. I remember a Baltacha serve reading 138mph at Wimbledon 3 years ago and an Henin 2nd serve clocking in at over 130 somewhere. In both cases the readings were so absurd that nobody was jumping up and down claiming a new record. But it does illustrate that the technology is not reliable enough to base bona fide records upon.
They use the same piece of kit to measure the pace of bowlers in cricket and it throws up some equally strange readings there from time to time as well.
fastest serves of all time and yet not a single serve before 2007 makes the list......the comparison is certainly flawed......players have access to better rackets these days.......
GOAT comparison is again legit because there we are comparing the fields and achievements of players in relation to the fields, not the speed of groundstrokes or the spin oon the ball or the bend of the forehands or backhands......
No , if for instance Serena serves in the range 110-124 mph on regular basis , i can believe she can hit 129 mph , but if for instance Li Na can barely hit 110 mph serve (her fastest speed at AO was 108 mph), i won't believe in her potential to hit 120+ serves
in Goerges case , it's ridiculous that a player whose top speed at Wimbledon 112mph , AO 114mph, and the whole year never exceeded 120mph hit at FO that uniques serve 126.1 and didn't hit any other serve at RG even close to 120 mph
Fastest serve means squat anyway. I'd like to see a list of fastest average first serve speeds. But that would mean the ATP and WTA would have to keep and crunch effective data and I wouldn't want them to have to spend money on something worthwhile.
At any moment any sportsmen could exceed its max result by approx 10%
It had happened many times in many different sports.
Do you remember Bob Beamon? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt_Xgg8dzc
His record was out of the blue. But was real... So does not matter believe you or not, any tennis player at any moment could serve or have a shot much faster than before. If a player can serve 120 mph you could expect to have max serve in the region of 132 mph
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