Fastest recorded tennis serves

This article lists the fastest recorded tennis serves in the men's and women's games. This list may not be historically complete. For instance, 1.Roscoe Tanner's serve was clocked at 153 mph at Palm Springs in 1978 during the final against Raúl Ramírez. 2.There are reports that Bill Tilden had a serve that was clocked at 163.3 mph but there is nothing to verify that.[1]

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) does not formally recognize service speed records made in Challenger tour events due to lack of uniformity in these tournaments' radar guns (including availability or lack thereof). Nevertheless, the serve speed of 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) recorded by Australian Sam Groth at an ATP Challenger event in Busan, South Korea in May 2012 was measured using approved equipment according to the ATP, and other data gathered appeared within a normal range. However, John Isner holds the ATP's official record for the fastest serve at 253 km/h (157.2 mph).[2]

Ivo Karlović with a 232 km/h (144 mph) second serve in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, holds the record for the fastest second serve ever recorded.[3]

Criteria
  • Men's serves must be recorded at or over 230 km/h (143 mph) minimum standard speed.
  • Women's serves must be recorded at or over 200 km/h (124 mph) minimum standard speed.[4]
  • Only one serve per player is recorded here. For example, Andy Roddick has many 230 km/h (143 mph) or faster serves on his record but only his personal best of 249 km/h (155 mph) is included.[5]
  • In cases where more than one serve has been recorded at the same speed, the oldest recorded serve is listed first.

Men

  Not recognized by ATP
  Not formally recognized by ATP and/or unsourced

RankPlayerSpeedEvent Type Round Source
1Australia Samuel Groth[note 1]263 km/h (163.4 mph)2012 Busan Open Challenger Tennis Singles 2R [7]
2France Albano Olivetti257.5 km/h (160 mph)2012 Internazionali Trofeo Lame Perrel–Faip 1R [8]
3United States John Isner253 km/h (157.2 mph)2016 Davis Cup 1R [9]
4Croatia Ivo Karlović251 km/h (156.0 mph)2011 Davis Cup Doubles 1R [10]
Poland Jerzy Janowicz[note 2]2012 Pekao Szczecin Open Singles 1R [12]
6United States Andy Roddick249.4 km/h (155 mph)2004 Davis Cup SF [13]
6Canada Milos Raonic249.4 km/h (155 mph)2012 SAP Open SF [14]
8Sweden Joachim Johansson244.6 km/h (152 mph)2004 Davis Cup Doubles 1R [15]
Spain Feliciano López2014 Aegon Championships Singles 1R [16]
10Romania Marius Copil244 km/h (151.6 mph)2016 European Open QF [17]
11Poland Hubert Hurkacz243 km/h (151.0 mph)2016 Davis Cup 1R [17]
12United States Taylor Dent240 km/h (149.1 mph)2010 French Open ? [14]
13 Argentina Juan Martín del Potro240 km/h (149.1 mph)2017 Stockholm OpenF [18]
14United Kingdom Greg Rusedski239.8 km/h (149 mph)1998 Newsweek Champions Cup SF [19]
16Russia Dmitry Tursunov237.0 km/h (147.25 mph)2006 Davis Cup ?
United States Frances Tiafoe2018 Estoril Open F
France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga2014 Rogers Cup QF [20]
18Chile Fernando González236 km/h (146.6 mph)2007 Italian Open (tennis) SF [21]
19France Gaël Monfils235 km/h (146 mph)2007 Legg Mason Tennis Classic QF [14]
Serbia Dušan Vemić2008 Countrywide Classic ? [14]
Croatia Marin Čilić2016 Davis Cup Singles 1R
22Lithuania Ričardas Berankis234 km/h (145.5 mph)2011 Open d'Orléans QF [22]
Switzerland Stan Wawrinka2014 Davis Cup Doubles F [23]
24Croatia Ivan Ljubičić233.4 km/h (145 mph)2007 Pacific Life Open Singles ? [14]
Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov2013 Aegon Championships
United States Reilly Opelka2016 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
Serbia Viktor Troicki2017 Davis Cup
28Chile Nicolás Jarry233 km/h (144.8 mph)2018 Davis Cup 1R [24]
29 Spain Fernando Verdasco 232 km/h (144.2 mph)2009 French Open [14]
Austria Dominic Thiem2017 Gerry Weber Open
31United States Mardy Fish 231.7 km/h (144 mph)2007 Pacific Life Open [14]
Poland Marcin Matkowski2009 ATP World Tour Finals
33Netherlands Martin Verkerk230 km/h (143 mph)2003 Breil Milano Indoor
Sweden Robin Söderling2010 ATP World Tour Finals
Germany Daniel Brands2011 Intersport Heilbronn Open
Czech Republic Jiří Veselý2014 Wimbledon
Spain Nicolás Almagro2016 Argentina Open

  1. In the match, Groth also hit serves recorded at 255.7 km/h (158.9 mph) and 253.5 km/h (157.5 mph)[6]
  2. His fastest verified serve clocked in at 149.3 mph (240 km/h) in the 2013 Davis Cup and he produced a 150.4 mph (242 km/h) serve during his run in the 2012 Paris Masters, but it was a let.[11]

Women

The WTA does not recognize, nor keep tabs of speed records set outside selected main draw segment of WTA Tour tournaments (where at least one of the tennis courts has a speed gun installation in place). Therefore even records that have been achieved during qualifications in those same places but not in main draw matches as well as records documented at other matches like ITF tour events, Fed Cup ties, Olympics tennis and other tournaments are not counted as part of women's speed record.

  Not recognized by WTA

RankPlayerSpeed[25]Event[note 1]
1 Spain Georgina Garcia Pérez220.0 km/h (136.7 mph)2018 Hungarian Ladies Open[26]
2Germany Sabine Lisicki210.8 km/h (131.0 mph)2014 Stanford Classic[27]
3United States Venus Williams207.6 km/h (129.0 mph)2007 US Open
4Serbia Ivana Jorović207.0 km/h (128.6 mph)2017 Fed Cup
4United States Serena Williams207.0 km/h (128.6 mph)2013 Australian Open
6Germany Julia Görges203.0 km/h (126.1 mph)2012 French Open
France Caroline Garcia2016 Fed Cup
8Netherlands Brenda Schultz-McCarthy202.7 km/h (126.0 mph)2007 Indian Wells Masters
9Ukraine Nadiya Kichenok202.0 km/h (125.5 mph)2014 Australian Open
10 Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká 201.2 km/h (125.0 mph)2015 Wimbledon
Japan Naomi Osaka2016 US Open
12Germany Anna-Lena Grönefeld201.1 km/h (125.0 mph)2009 Indian Wells Masters
13Serbia Ana Ivanovic201.0 km/h (124.9 mph)2007 French Open
Czech Republic Denisa Allertová2015 Australian Open[28]
15France Kristina Mladenovic200.0 km/h (124.3 mph)2009 French Open

  1. "IDS only collects serve speed data on show courts at certain events (11 in 2014) and started doing so in 1989 ... Players who have had multiple Top 10 fastest serves only have their top one listed, and if they hit that top speed multiple times, just the first time they did it is listed." http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/1978722/title/ids-serve-speed-leaders

See also

References

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