Fastest recorded tennis serves

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

John Isner holds the ATP-recognised record for the fastest recorded tennis serve, with a serve recorded at 253.0 km/h (157.2 mph) in the first round of the 2016 Davis Cup

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]

Reilly Opelka with a 233 km/h (144.8 mph) second serve in the quarterfinals of the 2021 Italian Open in Rome, holds the record for the fastest second serve ever recorded.[6]

Criteria to be listed in this article
  • 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
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
  Not recognized by ATP
  Not formally recognized by ATP, and/or unsourced
RankPlayerSpeedEvent Type Round Ref.
1 Sam Groth263.0 km/h (163.4 mph)2012 Busan Open Challenger Tennis Singles 2R [9]
2 Albano Olivetti257.5 km/h (160.0 mph)2012 Internazionali Trofeo Lame Perrel–FaipSingles 1R [10]
3 John Isner253.0 km/h (157.2 mph)2016 Davis CupSingles 1R [11]
4 Ivo Karlović251.0 km/h (156.0 mph)2011 Davis Cup Doubles 1R [12]
Jerzy Janowicz[note 1]251.0 km/h (156.0 mph)2012 Pekao Szczecin OpenSingles 1R [14]
5 Milos Raonic249.9 km/h (155.3 mph)2012 SAP OpenSingles SF [15]
7 Andy Roddick249.4 km/h (155.0 mph)2004 Davis CupSingles SF [16]
8 Joachim Johansson244.6 km/h (152.0 mph)2004 Davis Cup Doubles 1R [17]
Ryan Harrison244.6 km/h (152.0 mph)2013 Western & Southern Open Singles 2R [18]
Feliciano López244.6 km/h (152.0 mph)2014 Aegon Championships Singles 1R [19]
11 Marius Copil244.0 km/h (151.6 mph)2016 European OpenSingles QF [20]
12 Hubert Hurkacz243.0 km/h (151.0 mph)2016 Davis CupSingles 1R [20]
13 Taylor Dent241.0 km/h (149.8 mph)2006 ABN AMRO World Tennis TournamentSingles 1R [15]
14 Juan Martín del Potro240.0 km/h (149.1 mph)2017 Stockholm OpenSingles F [21]
15 Greg Rusedski239.8 km/h (149.0 mph)1998 Newsweek Champions CupSingles SF [22]
16 Dmitry Tursunov237.0 km/h (147.3 mph)2006 Davis CupSingles SF [23]
Frances Tiafoe237.0 km/h (147.3 mph)2018 Estoril OpenSingles F
Taylor Fritz237.0 km/h (147.3 mph)2020 US OpenSingles 3R [24]
Reilly Opelka236.9 km/h (147.2 mph)2021 US OpenSingles 2R [25]
20 Fernando González236.0 km/h (146.6 mph)2007 Italian OpenSingles SF [26]
Alexander Zverev 236.0 km/h (146.6 mph) 2021 Indian Wells Singles 2R [27]
22 Gaël Monfils235.0 km/h (146.0 mph)2007 Legg Mason Tennis ClassicSingles QF [15]
Dušan Vemić235.0 km/h (146.0 mph)2008 Countrywide ClassicSingles ? [15]
Marin Čilić235.0 km/h (146.0 mph)2016 Davis CupSingles 1R
Matteo Berrettini 235.0 km/h (146.0 mph) 2021 Mutua Madrid Open Singles F [28]
26 Ivan Ljubičić 234.0 km/h (145.4 mph) 2005 Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid Singles F
Stan Wawrinka234.0 km/h (145.4 mph) 2016 Davis Cup Doubles SF
28 Grigor Dimitrov233.4 km/h (145.0 mph)2013 Aegon Championships Singles ? [29]
Viktor Troicki233.4 km/h (145.0 mph)2017 Davis Cup Singles ?
Nicolás Jarry233.0 km/h (144.8 mph)2018 Davis Cup ? 1R [30]
31 Fernando Verdasco 232.0 km/h (144.2 mph)2009 French Open ? ? [15]
Dominic Thiem232.0 km/h (144.2 mph)2017 Gerry Weber Open ? ? [31]
33 Mardy Fish 231.7 km/h (144.0 mph)2007 Pacific Life Open Singles 1R
Marcin Matkowski231.7 km/h (144.0 mph)2009 ATP World Tour Finals Doubles ?
35 Robin Söderling 230.1 km/h (143.0 mph)2010 ATP World Tour Finals Singles RR
Nick Kyrgios230.1 km/h (143.0 mph)2019 WimbledonSingles 2R [32]
39 Alexander Bublik 230.0 km/h (142.9 mph) 2022 Open Sud de France Singles F
Roger Federer230.0 km/h (142.9 mph)2010 Gerry Weber Open Singles F [33]
Martin Verkerk 230.0 km/h (142.9 mph)2003 Breil Milano Indoor ? ?
Nicolás Almagro 230.0 km/h (142.9 mph) 2016 Argentina Open ? ?
Casper Ruud 230.0 km/h (142.9 mph) 2022 Argentina Open Singles F
  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

The WTA does not recognize, nor keep tabs of speed records set outside the main draw phase of WTA Tour tournaments. Therefore serve speeds recorded from the qualifying phase of WTA tournaments are not added to the official WTA serve speed statistics. Also WTA tournament serve speeds recorded by different or unapproved measurement systems or brands (not using technology provided by ATP/WTA's supplier SMT/IDS) or speeds recorded at any non-WTA tournaments such as the ITF Women's Circuit, the Fed Cup, and Olympics tennis are not added to WTA's official list of records.

  Not recognized by WTA
Rank Player Speed[34] Event[note 1] Ref.
1 Georgina García Pérez220 km/h (136.7 mph)2018 Hungarian Ladies Open[35]
2 Aryna Sabalenka 214 km/h (133.0 mph) 2018 WTA Elite Trophy[36]
3 Sabine Lisicki210.8 km/h (131.0 mph)2014 Stanford Classic[37]
4 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 209.2 km/h (130.0 mph) 2006 Cincinnati Masters (qualifiers)[38]
5 Venus Williams207.6 km/h (129.0 mph)2007 US Open[39]
Alycia Parks 207.6 km/h (129.0 mph) 2021 US Open [40]
Ajla Tomljanovic 207.6 km/h (129.0 mph) 2018 Cincinnati Masters [41]
8 Serena Williams 207 km/h (128.6 mph)2013 Australian Open[42]
Ivana Jorović207 km/h (128.6 mph)2017 Fed Cup
10 Julia Görges203 km/h (126.1 mph)2012 French Open
Caroline Garcia203 km/h (126.1 mph)2016 Fed Cup
12 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy202.7 km/h (126.0 mph)2007 Indian Wells Masters
13 Nadiya Kichenok202 km/h (125.5 mph)2014 Australian Open
14 Lucie Hradecká 201.2 km/h (125.0 mph)2015 Wimbledon
Naomi Osaka201.2 km/h (125.0 mph)2016 US Open[43]
16 Anna-Lena Grönefeld201.1 km/h (125.0 mph)2009 Indian Wells Masters
17 Ana Ivanovic201 km/h (124.9 mph)2007 French Open[44]
Denisa Allertová201 km/h (124.9 mph)2015 Australian Open[45]
Coco Gauff201 km/h (124.9 mph)2021 Wimbledon Championships[46]
Bernarda Pera201 km/h (124.9 mph)2021 US Open[47]
21 Kristina Mladenovic200 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

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