[Navratil]

Julia Goerges served 202 km/h at this years French-Open!

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/extrastats/speed_ws.html

Only 8 women did so:

1 Venus Williams 129 mph (207.6 km/h) US Open 2007
2 Serena Williams 128 mph (206 km/h) French Open 2010
3 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 126 mph (202.7 km/h) Indian Wells 2007
4 Sabine Lisicki 125 mph (201.2 km/h) Stanford 2011
6 Ana Ivanović 124.9 mph (201.0 km/h) French Open 2007
7 Kristina Mladenovic 124.3 mph (200.0 km/h) French Open 2009

 

[Navratil]

I still don't understand why Schultz-McCarthy serve of 130 mph (209 km/h) in Cincinnati 2006 is not in the official books!
Only because it was in the qualifying tournament??

 

[Navratil]

btw: New men's record is 263 km/h by Sam Groth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_recorded_tennis_serves

 

[Patoranking]

Congratulations to Goerges. She's also the fastest server for RG

I still don't understand why Schultz-McCarthy serve of 130 mph (209 km/h) in Cincinnati 2006 is not in the official books!
Only because it was in the qualifying tournament??

There must be some suspicion about the radar guns at the courts used for qualifying

 

[Caipirinha Guy]

I can't believe Mayr served so fast.

 

[tejmeglekvár]

Julia Goerges served 202 km/h at this years French-Open!

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/extrastats/speed_ws.html

and ended her run with a DF, how fitting.

from that list Shvedova, Martic, Kanepi, Stephens and Maria reached last 16. :spit:

 

[NashaMasha]

Her average first/second serve is not that fast..... Lucie Hradecka is overall much better server

average second serve speed i guess Maria Sharapova has the fastest

 

[Jimmie48]

Pretty cool but as usual she can't turn her advantages into consistent results

 

[Agape]

I still don't understand why Schultz-McCarthy serve of 130 mph (209 km/h) in Cincinnati 2006 is not in the official books!
Only because it was in the qualifying tournament??

Venus also served 130mph in Zurich 08 vs Pennetta. They only take speeds from a select few MD events.

 

[Trickle]

How the hell can someone like Samuel Groth serve 14-15 aces on average per match and still lose in Challengers so easily is beyond me.

But him breaking the original record by such a margin is quite astounding.

 

[Nalby fan]

The bizarre thing is that according to that list 4 of the 8 fastest serves have come at Roland Garros. I thought clay was supposed to be the slowest surface?

 

[Julius Kugy]

i think lisicki hit a 210 km/h serve and here's the video...funny enough she lost the point :lol:

 

[FedererBulgaria]

I pretty wonder whats the speed of Tvseti`s fastest serve?

 

[NashaMasha]

I thought clay was supposed to be the slowest surface?

RG uses other balls, Wimbeldon deliberately open compression cans long beforehand to help the likes of Nadal win it

 

[Meelis]

i think lisicki hit a 210 km/h serve and here's the video...funny enough she lost the point :lol:

Everyone was hitting record serves there. Venus would probably had 220km/h there

Only certain show courts at certain events (12 in 2011), where it´s certain that speed gun actually measures the speed correctly, count.

 

[Corswandt]

Only 8 women did so:

1 Venus Williams 129 mph (207.6 km/h) US Open 2007
2 Serena Williams 128 mph (206 km/h) French Open 2010
3 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 126 mph (202.7 km/h) Indian Wells 2007
4 Sabine Lisicki 125 mph (201.2 km/h) Stanford 2011
6 Ana Ivanović 124.9 mph (201.0 km/h) French Open 2007
7 Kristina Mladenovic 124.3 mph (200.0 km/h) French Open 2009

Groenefeld missing from the list.

See here:

http://www.wtatennis.com/news/20120401/ids-serve-speed-leaders_2256076_1978722

Goerges had already hit a 200 km/h serve here at the Estoril Open back in 2010 (1R vs Wozniak), but this isn't one of the events that are monitored for serve speed stats.

I'd also be very much surprised if Hradecka hadn't cracked the 200 km/h mark on a number of occasions, but never on show courts where it would be officially sanctioned.

 

[Patoranking]

The bizarre thing is that according to that list 4 of the 8 fastest serves have come at Roland Garros. I thought clay was supposed to be the slowest surface?

As far as I understand they measure the speed of the ball before it hits the court so the surface doesn't account for how "fast" the serve will be measured as.

 

[binky-GOAT]

Fastest serve means very little, average speeds are the things that matter.

I have seen plenty of matches where a player has the fastest speed of the match, but on average serves considerably slower than the other. For example 180kph max with 150kph average, which is very poor. Would always take 170kph max with 160kph average.

 

[dinamo]

What is Stosur's fastest serve? I know her serve is good because of what she puts on it but she I wonder whats the fastest one she's hit.

 

[Meelis]

What is Stosur's fastest serve? I know her serve is good because of what she puts on it but she I wonder whats the fastest one she's hit.

Samantha Stosur (AUS) 123.0 198.0 2010 French Open