Fastest serves by the following pro's:

Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Hey u guys. I'd like to know if you have any info updated on these players' fastest blasts.
I'm pretty accurate with some, according to IBM stats and stuff, but on some others, i'm typing only the fastest serve i've ever seen. Perhaps you have more info on this ;)

Any help would be appreciated

Player: MPH

Agustin Calleri (ARG)
Andre Agassi (USA) 126,0
Andy Roddick (USA) 155,0
Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) 135,0
Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 141,3
Goran Ivanisevic (CRO) 136,0
Greg Rusedski (GBR) 149,0
Guillermo Cañas (ARG)
Guillermo Coria (ARG) 133,1
Gustavo Kuerten (BRA) 132,5
Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 140,0
Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 133,0
Joachim Johannson (SWE) 144,0
Jose Acasuso (ARG) 135,0
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 130,7
Marat Safin (RUS) 140,0 (against Philippoussis an hour ago)
Mariano Zabaleta (ARG) 132,0
Mario Ancic (CRO) 137,0
Mark Philippoussis (AUS) 142,3
Patrick Rafter (AUS)
Pete Sampras (USA) 135,0
Roger Federer (SUI) 135,0
Taylor Dent (USA) 146,0 (Against Kim an hour ago)
Tin Henman (GBR) 134,0
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (RUS)

Ta Ta
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
It's just what I said, Twist.
I've never seen him bombing above 126 (or don't recall it). That's why i'm counting on you guys to give me some real stats ;)
 
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Ztalin

Guest
Safin had the world record about 4 years back with a 142 MPH serve.

And I remember Agassi doing 127 in a match, and I think maybe a very low 130.
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Coria has developed a fastest serve since he changed his coach.
His new coach insist on bending his knees much mooore, and the results are pretty evident.

His average 1st serve was around 105 mph and now it's around 115 mph. I saw the 133 mph serve... he declared he felt his sternon was going to fall down after the serve ;)
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Read the entire post before saying anything or criticizing. I saaaaid in some players, i have no clue about his fastest serve, so i put down the fastest serve I'VE ever seen from them....

I'm really interested about the serves on the guys I have no info about.
 
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Vlad

Professional
You can add kafelnikov's fastest serve which as i can recall about 207 kmh, which makes it about 128mph...

karlovic can serve at 140 with ease..

coria at 133mph? not possible..

agassi at about 127 mph

i beleive safin hit one serve at 142mph during this years davis cup match against chile

rusedski served 149 mph on a juiced up gun at indian wells few years ago.. but really he can't go over 142...

roddick is the same with the davis cup guns that are faster.. his real fastest serve used in slams was about 152mph
 
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Kevin Patrick

Hall of Fame
These juiced radar guns are funny. Yeah Max, I remember that Agassi/Queen's serve. He joked about it afterwards. Andre is a very methodical player who's been serving at the exact same mph for 10 years. Suddenly, he hits 133. If Sampras or Krajieck were playing today, they'd hit 145 easy. Johnny Mac hit 127 at the Queen's exo recently. At the age of 45. Wonder how fast a 130 mph serve from Noah in the 80s would register today.

Andres, I wouldn't take these numbers very seriously. The don't have standardized guns, so everyone is hitting ridiculous amounts. Do any of you really think Hewitt/Coria can hit a serve only few miles less than Sampras/Ivanisevic with considerably less racquet head speed?
 
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Datacipher

Banned
Kevin Patrick said:
These juiced radar guns are funny. Yeah Max, I remember that Agassi/Queen's serve. He joked about it afterwards. Andre is a very methodical player who's been serving at the exact same mph for 10 years. Suddenly, he hits 133. If Sampras or Krajieck were playing today, they'd hit 145 easy. Johnny Mac hit 127 at the Queen's exo recently. At the age of 45. Wonder how fast a 130 mph serve from Noah in the 80s would register today.

Andres, I wouldn't take these numbers very seriously. The don't have standardized guns, so everyone is hitting ridiculous amounts. Do any of you really think Hewitt/Coria can hit a serve only few miles less than Sampras/Ivanisevic with considerably less racquet head speed?
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Totally agree Kevin. Any comparison is sadly absolutely absurd. Remember when Lendl would paralyze Agassi with pounding ace after ace at around an average of 110mph? Even with his recent age slowdowns, it seems Agassi's reflexes have gotten about twice as fast with age and his arms about a foot longer.....

Anyways, on the subject of Agassi, I'd guess the real fastest serve he had recorded was 128mph back in 1991. That was easily 15mph over Agassi's regular flat serve and was as fast as the best from players like Michael Stich that year.

Undoubtedly in my mind, a guy like Noah on his best day would now be clocking well into the 140+ if not the 150+ mph range with his best blasts.

Like I said previously, Mcenroe's recent recording only reveals the charade. Mac's best flat serves tended to be about 103-108 mph in the early 90's. He was once clocked as high as 115mph though(very very unusual for him). Mac used to ACE Agassi cleanly at 105mph....now a guy hits 105 and you have time to dance a jig, talk to your coach and step around your backhand....
 
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JSummers

Rookie
Using Mac's serve speed at queens as the yardstick:
127(clocked @ age 45) vs 108(high end of 90's average)

Roddicks's record would have been 132 back in the 90's?
 
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Dr.Lobster

Rookie
I've always wondered how Pete Sampras got so many aces while Andy Roddick who supposedly can serve 15+ mph doesn't get nearly as many. I mean, I realize that Pete was deadly accurate with it, but I'm relatively sure that his serve would be clocked much faster now. His serves always seemed so fast on TV.
 
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Datacipher

Banned
JSummers said:
Using Mac's serve speed at queens as the yardstick:
127(clocked @ age 45) vs 108(high end of 90's average)

Roddicks's record would have been 132 back in the 90's?
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I think that's reasonable, we don't have an accurate way to convert, but I'd probably give Andy a few more mph, but I think his fastest would be somewhere in the mid 130's. That would still have made him the fastest server out there particularly since he reaches his highest end more than many of the other big servers. I don't want to take anything away from Roddick and his serve. I THINK he is probably the fastest server of all time. But sadly, because of lack of standardization and the OBVIOUS glaring changes in the way the serves are being recorded, we have no way to compare. Really sad. I just hope they standardize in the future with scientific tests. That way, if the radar continues to evolve, we will still be able to make some reasonable comparisons between the current servers and the future.....unfortunately all the biggest servers from the past will be lost. My guess is the 2 fastest servers of all time may be Roddick and Tanner.

I'm not just talking about ye old days of aluminum and wood! As an example, since Roddick's fastest blasts have been recorded on the new Getronics gun, we can't really compare them to even the last few years with the old radar!!!! Basically, that sucks. We can't even be sure if Roddick's record was faster than Rusedksi or Dent's or Flipper's blasts in the 140's....or even Andy's old serves let alone the "old" days of Sampras, Ivanisevic.....you can bet that Ivanisevic's record Wimbledon cannonballs in the early 90's that were in the mid 130's would have been pretty damn impressive on the Getronics gun!
 
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joesixtoe

Rookie
i think agassi hit 129 this past year at the nasdaq,, and petes fastes at nasdaq was 138 i believe, they have the records of fastes serve at the nasdaq on their homepage. i saw the goran vs agassi wimby final match, and goran was acing agassi left and right,, then i saw the pete vs agassi aussi final, and pete caught on fire with his aces in the fourth set, and he got like 12 plus aces in the final set,, like a couple of them being 3 in a row type i believe,,, so i mean how can younger agassi not serve as hard as 35 year old agassi? doesnt make sense.
 
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ThunderServe

Rookie
This is such crap rusedski didn't have a juiced gun and macenroe did serve 127 and he's done it at loads of places on the champions tour and even when he was on the tour. He said before he played at queens he was looking to get into the 120s and greg has since got 148 at last years wimbledon.
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Of course JMac woulnd't get a 130 serve with a wooden racquet. I believe that's the reason why he was so surprised about the 125 serve two weeks ago.
Greg had a 140 yesterday against Johansson...

And about Coria, i wouldn' believe the fact he did a 133 unless i've seen it, but OH SURPIRSE! I was there at the TV watching the match, when his 133 mph ace was in. The look on his face? Priceless ;)
And yes, it rivalized Ivanisevic's fastest serve. Coria's blast was really fast ;)
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Thanks for the info ;)

Today Coria had a couple of 125 mph and one 127 mph... at least on what I saw. 133 is not that away from 127... :)

Any info on Rafter or Feliciano Lopez?
 
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Datacipher

Banned
ThunderServe said:
This is such crap rusedski didn't have a juiced gun and macenroe did serve 127 and he's done it at loads of places on the champions tour and even when he was on the tour. .
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Would you care to give an example of one time when he hit such a speed on the tour? No? I thought not. Who's slinging the crap?
 
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Datacipher

Banned
Andres Guazzelli said:
Of course JMac woulnd't get a 130 serve with a wooden racquet. I believe that's the reason why he was so surprised about the 125 serve two weeks ago.
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Are you aware of when JMac switched to a graphite racquet? That was 22 years ago. Well before radar was even regularly used on tour. That's not even taking into account that there is quite a bit of annecdotal evidence that wood does not have much of an impact on top end serving speed.

I can see that you and ThunderServe don't really understand what we're telling you....unfortunate.
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Datacipher said:
Are you aware of when JMac switched to a graphite racquet? That was 22 years ago. Well before radar was even regularly used on tour. That's not even taking into account that there is quite a bit of annecdotal evidence that wood does not have much of an impact on top end serving speed.

I can see that you and ThunderServe don't really understand what we're telling you....unfortunate.
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Frankly, i don't actually care very much about JMac's serve. I just wanted some info that i couldn't get :)

Thanks anyways ;)
 
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Lakoste

Professional
did you know that the badminton fastest smash is 199mph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now who doesnt think badminton is a sport.
 
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lagranwilly

New User
the radars of the 90´s are obsolete.Nowadays radars are much more precise than those.I think we all agree on that.
So goran serving only 136 and Sampras 135 is anecdothic,cause all of us who saw that matches of these people know that they hitted bigger services than that.The conclusion:you can´t compare them,so all we can say is that Andy roddick has the fastest serve 'of the last 5 years'.I wouldn´t be so sure he has the all time record.
johnny mac´s anecdote is very clear in this aspect.
 
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lagranwilly

New User
Andres,you´re not crazy...I´ve seen Coria serving 134 (214 km/h) on the davis cup of Argentina against Czeck Republic.He was playing against Berdych and it was a clear ace.Coria can accomplish really fast serves now beacuase he changed his training and his new coach changed his techinique.
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
Not that far ;)
Roddick's 155 mph record was nearly tied by Taylor Dent, and his 153 mph bomb against ... Henman, right?
 
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splink779

Guest
Andres Guazzelli said:
Not that far ;)
Roddick's 155 mph record was nearly tied by Taylor Dent, and his 153 mph bomb against ... Henman, right?
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Thats right. The only reason I watched that match. He is a serious threat to Roddick's 155. Imagine if Dent got the record.
 
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AngeloDS

Hall of Fame
155 MPH, that's fast. You have less than half a second to react. That is just INSANE.

I don't see how pros can handle those serves. 130-140+, that is just INSANELY fast. If you've gone head on with any serve over 100 MPH, you feel small. I can certainly dish it, but can't take it.

I remember Dent served like 140 something with a Wood racquet? Or was it 120 something? Forgot, but still Dent has an amazing serve.
 
Andres

Andres

G.O.A.T.
To udpate the list:

Andy Roddick: 155,00 mph
Taylor Dent: 153,00 mph
Greg Rusedski: 149,00 mph
Ivan Ljubicic: 145,00 mph
Joachim Johannson: 144,00 mph
Chris Guccione: 144,00 mph
Marat Safin: 144,00 mph
Fernando Gonzalez: 144,00 mph
Ivo Karlovic: 143,75 mph
Agustin Calleri: 143,00 mph
Mark Philippoussis: 142,30 mph
Fernando Verdasco: 141,25 mph
Wayne Arthurs: 141,00 mph
Danielle Bracciali: 141,00 mph
Mario Ancic: 141,00 mph
Jose Acasuso: 140,00 mph
Pete Sampras: 139,00 mph
Feliciano Lopez: 139,00 mph
Max Mirnyi: 138,00 mph
Richard Krajicek: 137,00 mph
Thomas Berdych: 136,25 mph
Goran Ivanisevic: 136,00 mph
Carlos Moya: 136,00 mph
Roger Federer: 135,00 mph
Tin Henman: 134,00 mph
Guillermo Coria: 133,00 mph
Gustavo Kuerten: 132,50 mph
Guillermo Cañas: 132,50 mph
Mariano Zabaleta: 132,00 mph
Andre Agassi: 132,00 mph
Lleyton Hewitt: 130,70 mph
Yevgeny Kafelnikov: 129,50 mph
Patrick Rafter: 129,30 mph
 
rilokiley

rilokiley

Professional
On a completely unrelated note, I got a problem with non-tennis fans talking crap about Dent's face just when the racket strikes the ball. As if they know what it takes. K I'm done.
 
joe1987

joe1987

Semi-Pro
I'm surprised that Fernando Verdasco: 141,25 mph. I watched him play didn't really have such a big serve. I was thinking 130s
 
Grinder

Grinder

Semi-Pro
Here's some that I've seen:
James Blake – 136 mph
Justin Gimelstob – 135 mph
Jan Michael Gambill – 133 mph
Scoville Jenkins – 134 mph
Bobby Reynolds – 133 mph
 
timmyboy

timmyboy

Professional
AngeloDS said:
155 MPH, that's fast. You have less than half a second to react. That is just INSANE.

I don't see how pros can handle those serves. 130-140+, that is just INSANELY fast. If you've gone head on with any serve over 100 MPH, you feel small. I can certainly dish it, but can't take it.

I remember Dent served like 140 something with a Wood racquet? Or was it 120 something? Forgot, but still Dent has an amazing serve.
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Hewitt, Agassi, and Federer. Hewitt admits to loving returning Roddick's serve!
 
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