@@user-ni8rl6pf4q Why do you want to compare right away? In terms of numbers and stats, Novak has a better return. However, Agassi is also a great player with the highest return of all time. Look at the match against Sampras. Is it normal to return a pistol serve with a pistol?
Agassi was so good on the returns because he would commit completely to one side or the other. He made a decision to hit a return or get aced. Against Johannson he was constantly caught leaning the wrong way. Why did he keep doing it? He was playing to get 1 break a set. He won the match by the way even if he got aced more times than anyone in history.
New balls dry air and perfectly in the sweet spot. The fact that Groth may have been the most muscular guy of all the players shown leads me to believe he may have been capable of exceeding 160. I watched him at a Challenger in heavy windy condition and he was consistent at 135 when no other pros were coming close to 130. There were players in the draw that have reached top 20. Some with big serves.
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Pound for pound (or more specifically, inch for inch), the best servers are easily Roddick, Sampras, and Federer. Yes, some of the taller players can serve faster or hit more aces, but for their height, those 3 are the best of the best.
yes, but the title is the "Fastest" .. if you open this up with best servers - then a slew of players can be added to your list : McEnroe, Becker, Edberg, ... etc
@@georgegl3192one could also argue with lesser known : Sam Querrey - 8,729 career aces (Avg. 12.7 aces per match) .. I'm guessing you have to serve pretty fast to blow that many by them.
Kyrgios is perhaps the best server of all time, up there with isner, Roddick and Sampras. Not for his speed tho (which is still extremely fast). It's because he can serve with pinpoint accuracy, and because his serve has no giveaways, you don't know where he's serving until he's hit the ball
Joachim Johansson definitely hit that serve with that speed! he was one of the best servers ever stepped on court!..just a reminder for all those youngsters who never seen him play..
Good serving is all about changing speeds and spins, hitting your spots, and enough pace to make it all effective. Federer rarely went past 125mph, but he got a lot of free points off his very effective serve. He kept the returner off balance. And don't forget the 2nd serve which is just as important. Many top players just spin it in.
Missed loads off your list. Shelton hit a 150mph at Indian Wells this year, though perhaps your video was already in post production then. But what about Otte's 152 at the US Open a few years back. Also, it's pronounced HERcatch, not HERcax
Butch Walts back in the 1970s. I believe experts said 149. He used a standard size racket (Head Competition). Walts was really built. Much stronger than Isner. I suspect he could wack the ball harder than Isner, but the angle and bounce were not as extreme. Walt’s was not as tall as Isner.
Groths serves was 150 and less were outdoor. He was clocked at 160 in practices. You spell names correctly in the timeline. - Andy Rodik, Evo Carlovich.
I hate Rusedski, but his serve might actually be the fastest on this list. In the 90s they measured the speed as the ball approached the net rather than the immediate speed you get as the ball leaves the racket. That means if the serve was measured today, the radar would measure it at about 10 MPH faster than back then.
sam growth use to milk that worlds fastest serve for awhile, getting deals with kia from that broken speed gun, haha a true charlatan, thank you for not counting it!
Venus Williams still holds the record for the fastest serve in women's tennis which she achieved in 2008 in Zurich during the Final she served a 130mph Ace its claimed that Sabine Lisicki served a ball at 131mph but the machine was not accurate meaning that Venus still holds the record. Serena's fastest serve in 129mph which she achieved in 2008 in Charleston.
I was watching davis cup a lot back when it was the old format, and I noticed that average speed of serves were VERY significantly higher for all players. I'm french, so I noticed that for example Llodra and Chardy were hitting above 230 km/h very often which is a complete absurdity given their respective trackrecords. I think the fastest are Raonic and Roddick, then the serves by Copil and Janowicz, and the other ones are not as fast.
Your logic seems a bit shaky. For instance, if the Del Potro serve can be discarded because of faulty equipment, then the same could be true of any of the serves on the list. Maybe it was the best-hit serve of his career. Who can say?
Isner's serve was definitely not 157 mph... You said in the intro Groth never came close to his "record" serve but neither did Isner. Isner's next fastest serve is 144 mph. Where are the serves in between 144 and 157? Definitely not an accurate measurement.
Well man, if you don’t want to believe the speedometers on the challenger AND pro levels, why even make the video😂 I don’t get it, what “looks” like a fast serve on a video broadcast🤷🏻♂️
That may have been Roddick's *fastest* serve, but in my opinion it's not his most impressive. He hit one on a clay court (there's a video here somewhere of it) that had so much speed and spin that it embedded itself *in* the court! Talk about unreturnable!
@@flyingnematode Not sure about the sarcasm comment. He really did hit an unreturnable serve into a clay court. The ball got stuck in the clay. It did not bounce.
This scares me... people thinking it is possible to do it on a clay court... like do you believe the earth is flat because somebody made a video about it?
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Roscoe may have been capable of 150 with a modern racquet but he never played with one in his prime. He crushed the ball in his era but nothing like Roddick. I actually attended a serving clinic he hosted in the early 1980's. He had just switched to the midsize La Coq Sportif from his aluminum PDP. He was serving low 130's indoors.
Johansson in AO 2005 hit 51 aces against Agassi, one of the best returners in tennis history.
Compared to Novak, Agassi's return skills are ordinary at best. Novak is hands down the greatest returner in history.
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Why do you want to compare right away? In terms of numbers and stats, Novak has a better return. However, Agassi is also a great player with the highest return of all time. Look at the match against Sampras. Is it normal to return a pistol serve with a pistol?
Agassi was so good on the returns because he would commit completely to one side or the other. He made a decision to hit a return or get aced. Against Johannson he was constantly caught leaning the wrong way. Why did he keep doing it? He was playing to get 1 break a set. He won the match by the way even if he got aced more times than anyone in history.
New balls dry air and perfectly in the sweet spot. The fact that Groth may have been the most muscular guy of all the players shown leads me to believe he may have been capable of exceeding 160. I watched him at a Challenger in heavy windy condition and he was consistent at 135 when no other pros were coming close to 130. There were players in the draw that have reached top 20. Some with big serves.
almost every big server made a lot of aces agains Agassi
Most of the tennis fans are using kilometers
Yes, please use the unit km/h so that we can understand what speeds you're talking about.
Normal people are using kilometers
Ah.... battery. -- Trevor Noah
Most people on UA-cam are American so it makes sense to use MPH
Not me I’m using kilograms
For what it's worth, Ben Shelton hit a 149 mph serve at the US open last year
He touched 150 at IW this yese
He has a 150 serve
He just had a 153 at wimbledon
His wimbledon was 153 Kilos per hour.
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153 kilometers? You mean 153 miles, right?
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard with a 235 km/h (146.0 mph) second serve in the first round of the 2024 BOSS Open in Stuttgart, holds the record for the fastest second serve ever recorded.
Stunning 🤩🇫🇷
I like the rigorous approach here in this video.
Pericard, last week was serving over 240 km/h.
Thank you for this an amazing video! 👍
"HurKACKS" 😅
Man the sound coming off roddick’s racket was wild
In the 70s I watched Roscoe Tanner serve. He had a short toss and He hit the ball very flat. I think he was in the 150s mph.
That Raonic sound is music to my ears. Might put it as my phone ring
I love how the fastest serves are always recorded on cctv cameras
Thanks for including the civilized metrics ;-)
Pound for pound (or more specifically, inch for inch), the best servers are easily Roddick, Sampras, and Federer. Yes, some of the taller players can serve faster or hit more aces, but for their height, those 3 are the best of the best.
yes, but the title is the "Fastest" .. if you open this up with best servers - then a slew of players can be added to your list : McEnroe, Becker, Edberg, ... etc
ivanisevic better than roddick or federer.
@@georgegl3192one could also argue with lesser known : Sam Querrey - 8,729 career aces (Avg. 12.7 aces per match) .. I'm guessing you have to serve pretty fast to blow that many by them.
From your list I agree the Hurkacz belongs there .. I was surprise that Kyrgios didn't make it.
Kyrgios is perhaps the best server of all time, up there with isner, Roddick and Sampras. Not for his speed tho (which is still extremely fast). It's because he can serve with pinpoint accuracy, and because his serve has no giveaways, you don't know where he's serving until he's hit the ball
Good job!
Joachim Johansson definitely hit that serve with that speed! he was one of the best servers ever stepped on court!..just a reminder for all those youngsters who never seen him play..
Great list!
thanks for the vid bro!
Hubie for SURE could crack 150 mph.
Roscoe Tanner in the late 70s …
246 km/h
I mentioned him also. Saw him play when I was a kid. Short toss with a hard flat serve. He was a husky strong guy
Never happened though.
Il reste pour moi, le serveur le plus rapide, au niveau de la vitesse du geste et celle de la balle.
The equipment back then was nowhere near accurate. It didn't happen
Why do you use MPH instead of KPH ...
But I used both...
You did put up both, but saying "150mph or 242kmh" in the video would make it more enjoyable for the viewer. @@TennisticProductions
@@TennisticProductions you clearly didn't, hence the comment.
Most viewers understand km/h but not mph, which is an obsolete unit.
@yankeeromeoalphaIsn't knots, another obsolete unit, used in aviation and at sea, not mph?
I remember being at the US open and seeing Learner Tien was the leader at 140 something and he was like 16-17 and I haven’t seen anything close since
I remember watching Pim Pim playing in New Orleans at an ITF junior event and I’ve never heard another player have the same pop off his racquet
Lopez has my favorite serve of all time. Such an effortless, powerful motion.
00:46 bro how am i supposed to judge something i can't see lol
What about Perricard?
Shelton also served 149 at the us open
Good serving is all about changing speeds and spins, hitting your spots, and enough pace to make it all effective. Federer rarely went past 125mph, but he got a lot of free points off his very effective serve. He kept the returner off balance. And don't forget the 2nd serve which is just as important. Many top players just spin it in.
Isner's 2nd serve in some ways was more effective than his 1st. Biggest kick I have ever seen as at top height it was over your head.
But the video above is all about SPEED.
federers forehand and backhand made players take more risk on the return which made his serve look better than it was.
Shelton?
do u have footage of any of these?
Ben Shelton hit 153mph at Wimbledon
Missed loads off your list. Shelton hit a 150mph at Indian Wells this year, though perhaps your video was already in post production then. But what about Otte's 152 at the US Open a few years back. Also, it's pronounced HERcatch, not HERcax
Butch Walts back in the 1970s. I believe experts said 149. He used a standard size racket (Head Competition). Walts was really built. Much stronger than Isner. I suspect he could wack the ball harder than Isner, but the angle and bounce were not as extreme. Walt’s was not as tall as Isner.
Groths serves was 150 and less were outdoor. He was clocked at 160 in practices. You spell names correctly in the timeline. - Andy Rodik, Evo Carlovich.
Great video really good that you took out groths serve I don't believe it to be the real speed either
I hate Rusedski, but his serve might actually be the fastest on this list. In the 90s they measured the speed as the ball approached the net rather than the immediate speed you get as the ball leaves the racket. That means if the serve was measured today, the radar would measure it at about 10 MPH faster than back then.
Has Shelton hit 150 yet? I’ve seen him hit 149 a few times
Shelton, Fils and FAA are my least favorite players
@@Srbenda126 no one asked but ok
sam growth use to milk that worlds fastest serve for awhile, getting deals with kia from that broken speed gun, haha a true charlatan, thank you for not counting it!
Nope, saw him live and him serving at 260 khm is very believable, i saw him indoors in a challenger, when he serves flat the speed is incredible
@@-music2023 keep dreaming! he never was close to that speed again! its very well explained at the start of video
Isner was never close to 157 either. His next fastest serve was 144. If Groth's speed gun was broken so was Isner's.
Venus Williams still holds the record for the fastest serve in women's tennis which she achieved in 2008 in Zurich during the Final she served a 130mph Ace its claimed that Sabine Lisicki served a ball at 131mph but the machine was not accurate meaning that Venus still holds the record.
Serena's fastest serve in 129mph which she achieved in 2008 in Charleston.
I was watching davis cup a lot back when it was the old format, and I noticed that average speed of serves were VERY significantly higher for all players. I'm french, so I noticed that for example Llodra and Chardy were hitting above 230 km/h very often which is a complete absurdity given their respective trackrecords. I think the fastest are Raonic and Roddick, then the serves by Copil and Janowicz, and the other ones are not as fast.
Johansson did a serve in 251 kmh,, i belive it was against australia in davis cup.. and more.. it was a second serve =)
Roscoe Tanner with 1978 style racquets hitting easy 145mph
You can't make any judgement from the eye, you really do have to go by tech, even if it's wonky sometimes.
sam groth is still the fastest serve in history 263.4 km/h
What about zapata miralles's serve ? One of the greatest serves ive ever seen
Good joke
damn, it seems like the Davis Cup is really heatin' up players' serves :D
Exactly, the Isner serve isn't the fastest in my opinion, from eye test, Groth 's serve, Copil and Roddick lool the fastest.
3:40 Its spelled Yeży Yanovitch
was rusedski on drugs at 2.37? He later had a doping ban
4:15 Its spelled Hoobert Hoorcatch
Your logic seems a bit shaky. For instance, if the Del Potro serve can be discarded because of faulty equipment, then the same could be true of any of the serves on the list. Maybe it was the best-hit serve of his career. Who can say?
Ben Shelton hit a 150 a few days ago
fake
Just yesterday he hit a 153 at Wimbledon. Idk why no one’s talking about it
use km/h PLEASE
I don't trust either the speed nor the eagle eye.
Kind of weird that almost all of these were on hardcourt yet the fastest was on grass.
The surface has nothing to do with a serves speed they record the speed after the ball leaves the racket not after the bounce .
Roddick best server ever
Ivanisevic n Philippoussis 🚀
Where is Shelton
ben shelton is surely gonna be on this list soon
I also think so. He is a player to watch in the future
People have said he’s hit a 153 mph serve this Wimbledon
Isner's serve was definitely not 157 mph... You said in the intro Groth never came close to his "record" serve but neither did Isner. Isner's next fastest serve is 144 mph. Where are the serves in between 144 and 157? Definitely not an accurate measurement.
I geuss BORIS BECKER had fastest and best style on serves with PUMA !👌
the tech is notoriously bad for accuracy. regularly a few mph off. So its quite possible ALL of these serves were inaccurate measures.
Please learn to say top player names. Please. :/
fastest is Sam Groth 263 km/h
Sam groth was wrongly measured
Do you like Nagal or D.Novak more?
Use kmh...
Andy roddick all time best
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Ben Shelton just hit 150mph at Indian Wells. 8th place for Ben??
Well man, if you don’t want to believe the speedometers on the challenger AND pro levels, why even make the video😂 I don’t get it, what “looks” like a fast serve on a video broadcast🤷🏻♂️
Ben Shelton???
mpetshi-perricard make your video out of date
I think they are all wrong
you dont hsve siht..
Why no women?
first
That may have been Roddick's *fastest* serve, but in my opinion it's not his most impressive. He hit one on a clay court (there's a video here somewhere of it) that had so much speed and spin that it embedded itself *in* the court! Talk about unreturnable!
I love the sarcasm... you are being sarcastic right?
@@flyingnematode Not sure about the sarcasm comment. He really did hit an unreturnable serve into a clay court. The ball got stuck in the clay. It did not bounce.
@@ronalddelrosario7405that was a fake video for an advertisement
It was a commercial
This scares me... people thinking it is possible to do it on a clay court... like do you believe the earth is flat because somebody made a video about it?
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If Nadal have Andy Roddick serve he will win all the tournaments he plays 🎉🎉🎉
He’s pretending Roscoe Tanner never existed.
Roscoe may have been capable of 150 with a modern racquet but he never played with one in his prime. He crushed the ball in his era but nothing like Roddick. I actually attended a serving clinic he hosted in the early 1980's. He had just switched to the midsize La Coq Sportif from his aluminum PDP. He was serving low 130's indoors.