Fastest recorded tennis serves

This article lists serving speed record breaks for the men's and women's professional tennis.

This list is not historically complete. For instance, not listed here, Roscoe Tanner's serve was clocked at 153 mph at Palm Springs in 1978 during the final against Raúl Ramírez. There are also reports that Bill Tilden had a serve that was clocked at 163.3 mph but there is nothing to verify that.[1] Also, Ellsworth Vines in the Wimbledon finals of 1932 clocked 121 mph (without Radar).[2] Udayachand Shetty's winning serve was clocked by radar at 120 mph using a wooden racquet, at the Gilbey Gins fast serve contest held in Chicago on 24 July 1976.[3] This qualified him to take part in the finals at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills Queens on 20 August 1976. Colin Dibley of Australia won the event with a serve of 130 mph.[4]

Currently, 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 km/h (163.4 mph) recorded by Australian Sam Groth at an ATP Challenger event in Busan, South Korea in May 2012 was measured using ATP-approved equipment 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).[5]

Ivo Karlović with a 232 km/h (144.2 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.[6]

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.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • 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
1 Sam Groth263 km/h (163.4 mph)2012 Busan Open Challenger Tennis Singles 2R [9]
2 Albano Olivetti257.5 km/h (160 mph)2012 Internazionali Trofeo Lame Perrel–Faip 1R [10]
3 John Isner253 km/h (157.2 mph)2016 Davis Cup 1R [11]
4 Ivo Karlović251 km/h (156.0 mph)2011 Davis Cup Doubles 1R [12]
Jerzy Janowicz[note 1]2012 Pekao Szczecin Open Singles 1R [14]
6 Andy Roddick249.4 km/h (155 mph)2004 Davis Cup SF [15]
Milos Raonic2012 SAP Open SF [16]
8 Joachim Johansson244.6 km/h (152 mph)2004 Davis Cup Doubles 1R [17]
Feliciano López2014 Aegon Championships Singles 1R [18]
10 Marius Copil244 km/h (151.6 mph)2016 European Open QF [19]
11 Hubert Hurkacz243 km/h (151.0 mph)2016 Davis Cup 1R [19]
12 Taylor Dent241 km/h (149.8 mph)2006 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament 1R [16]
13 Juan Martín del Potro240 km/h (149.1 mph)2017 Stockholm Open F [20]
14 Greg Rusedski239.8 km/h (149 mph)1998 Newsweek Champions Cup SF [21]
15 Dmitry Tursunov237 km/h (147.3 mph)2006 Davis Cup SF
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga2014 Rogers Cup QF [22]
Frances Tiafoe2018 Estoril Open F
18 Fernando González236 km/h (146.6 mph)2007 Italian Open SF [23]
19 Gaël Monfils235 km/h (146 mph)2007 Legg Mason Tennis Classic QF [16]
Dušan Vemić2008 Countrywide Classic ? [16]
Marin Čilić2016 Davis Cup 1R
22 Ivan Ljubičić234 km/h (145.4 mph)2005 Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid F
Stan Wawrinka2014 Davis Cup Doubles F [24]
24 Grigor Dimitrov233.4 km/h (145 mph)2013 Aegon Championships Singles ?
Reilly Opelka2016 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships ? ?
Viktor Troicki2017 Davis Cup ? ?
27 Nicolás Jarry233 km/h (144.8 mph)2018 Davis Cup ? 1R [25]
28 Fernando Verdasco 232 km/h (144.2 mph)2009 French Open ? ? [16]
Dominic Thiem2017 Gerry Weber Open ? ?
30 Mardy Fish 231.7 km/h (144 mph)2007 Pacific Life Open Singles 1R
Marcin Matkowski2009 ATP World Tour Finals Doubles ?
32 Robin Söderling 230.1 km/h (143 mph)2010 ATP World Tour Finals Singles RR
Nick Kyrgios2019 Wimbledon 2R [26]
Roger Federer2010 Gerry Weber Open ? ? [27]
35 Martin Verkerk 230 km/h (142.9 mph)2003 Breil Milano Indoor ? ?
Nicolás Almagro 2016 Argentina Open ? ?
  1. 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.[13]

Women
RankPlayerSpeed[28]Event[note 1]
1 Sabine Lisicki210.8 km/h (131.0 mph)2014 Stanford Classic[29]
2 Venus Williams207.6 km/h (129.0 mph)2007 US Open
3 Serena Williams 207.0 km/h (128.6 mph)2013 Australian Open
4 Julia Görges203.0 km/h (126.1 mph)2012 French Open
5 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy202.7 km/h (126.0 mph)2007 Indian Wells Masters
6 Nadiya Kichenok202.0 km/h (125.5 mph)2014 Australian Open
7 Lucie Hradecká 201.2 km/h (125.0 mph)2015 Wimbledon
Naomi Osaka2016 US Open
8 Anna-Lena Grönefeld201.1 km/h (125.0 mph)2009 Indian Wells Masters
9 Ana Ivanovic201.0 km/h (124.9 mph)2007 French Open
Denisa Allertová2015 Australian Open[30]
10 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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  3. "Aussie has a racket- hits "em 148 miles per hour". Chicago Tribune (published 1976-08-19). 1976. p. 7.
  4. Rogers, Thomas (1976-08-21). "Dibley service fastest in town". New York Times.
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