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Fastest recorded tennis serves

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This article lists the fastest record serve speeds for men's and women's professional tennis.

The fastest, biggest recorded serve is by Sam Groth, at 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) at a Challenger event. The fastest recorded serve at an ATP event was by John Isner, at 253.0 km/h (157.0 mph) in the first round of the 2016 Davis Cup.

This list is not historically complete. There are reports from the 1920s, at a time when service motions were regulated differently (with mandatory one foot on the ground), that Bill Tilden had a serve that was clocked at 262.81 km/h (163.3 mph) but there is nothing to verify that. "Big Bill" Tilden also delivered another serve claimed to be officially measured at 163.61 mph (73.14 m/s / 263.30 km/h) in 1931. Britain's Mike Sangster had a serve allegedly timed at 154 mph (247.84 km/h) in 1963. Ellsworth Vines was clocked at 128 mph (206 km/h) and his 1930s contemporary Lester Rollo Stoeten sent down a serve timed at 131 mph (210.82 km/h). Also, Ellsworth Vines in the Wimbledon finals of 1932 clocked 194.73 km/h (121 mph) (without Radar). The fastest serve claimed to be scientifically timed was the 137 mph (220.48 km/h) serve from Scott Carnahan at Los Angeles in 1976. Udayachand Shetty's winning serve was clocked by radar at 193.12 km/h (120 mph) using a wooden racquet, at the Gilbey Gins fast serve contest held in Chicago on 24 July 1976. 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 won the event with a serve of 209.21 km/h (130 mph). Then in 1981 a West German lawn tennis coach and statistician, Horst Goepper, claimed a serving speed of 199.53 mph (321.11 km/h) during a test in Weinheim.

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard with a 237 km/h (147.3 mph) second serve in the first round of 2025 Wimbledon Championships, holds the record for the fastest second serve ever recorded.

;Criteria to be listed in this article

  • Men's serves must be recorded at or over 230 km/h minimum standard speed.
  • Women's serves must be recorded at or over 200 km/h minimum standard speed.
  • Only one serve per player is recorded here. For example, Andy Roddick has several 140 mph or faster serves on his record but only his personal best of 155 mph is included.
  • In cases where more than one serve has been recorded at the same speed, the oldest recorded serve is listed first.

Men

RankPlayerMax reportedEventTypeRoundRef.url=https://www.tennisabstract.com/title=Tennis Abstract: ATP and WTA Match Results, Splits, and Analysiswebsite=www.tennisabstract.comaccessdate=9 June 2023archive-date=7 June 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607081718/http://www.tennisabstract.com/url-status=live}}Average first serve
1AUS Sam Groth263.4 km/h (163.7 mph)2012 Busan Open Challenger TennisSingles2R147.0 mph123.0 mph
2FRA Albano Olivetti160.0 mph2012 Internazionali Trofeo Lame Perrel–FaipSingles1R141.0 mph127.0 mph
3USA John Isner253.0 km/h2016 Davis CupSingles1R150.0 mph125.0 mph
4CRO Ivo Karlović251 km/h2011 Davis CupDoubles1R139.0 mph125.0 mph
POL Jerzy Janowicz251 km/h2012 Pekao Szczecin OpenSingles1R143.0 mph–150.0 mph120.0 mph
6CAN Milos Raonic155.3 mph2012 SAP OpenSingles2Rurl=http://www.atpworldtour.com/Press/Media-Guide.aspxtitle=2011 ATP World Tour Media Guidepublisher=Association of Tennis Professionalspage=205access-date=1 July 2011archive-date=9 June 2015archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609201958/http://www.atpworldtour.com/Press/Media-Guide.aspxurl-status=live}}151.0 mph125.0 mph
7USA Andy Roddick155 mph2004 Davis CupSinglesSFurl=https://www.tennis-x.com/story/2004-09-24/q.phptitle=Roddick Smacks Voltchkov With a Record 155mph Servedate=24 September 2004website=Tennis Xaccess-date=2022-06-24archive-date=2023-04-12archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412155501/https://www.tennis-x.com/story/2004-09-24/q.phpurl-status=live}}152.0 mph124.0 mph
8AUS Chris Guccione248.0 km/h2006 Davis CupSingles1Rurl=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/sleeping-giant-20060407-ge2396.htmltitle=Sleeping giantdate=2 April 2006website=The Ageaccess-date=24 June 2022archive-date=24 June 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624051133/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/sleeping-giant-20060407-ge2396.htmlurl-status=live}}
9FRA Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard246.23 km/h (153.0 mph)2025 Wimbledon ChampionshipsSingles1R244.0 km/h (151.6 mph)217.2 km/h (135.0 mph)
10USA Roscoe Tanner246.2 km/h (153 mph)1978 American Airlines Tennis GamesSinglesF
11SWE Joachim Johansson152.0 mph2004 Davis CupDoubles1Rurl=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-14250957title=El saque más veloz del tenis estará en el ATP 250 de Bogotálast1=Botero B.first1=Andrésdate=15 July 2014website=eltiempo.comlanguage=esaccess-date=8 September 2014archive-date=3 March 2016archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222615/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-14250957url-status=live}}
ESP Feliciano López152.0 mph2014 Aegon ChampionshipsSingles1R139.0 mph121.0 mph
13ROU Marius Copil244.0 km/h2016 European OpenSinglesQFurl=https://www.libertatea.ro/sport/nu-joaca-de-copil-aradeanul-forteaza-7-victorie-doua-saptamani-livescore-1640879title=Nu-i joacă de Copil! Arădeanul este în semifinale, la Budapesta. Am aflat de ce evoluează senzațional!date=28 October 2016work=Libertatea.roaccess-date=19 December 2017language=ro-ROarchive-date=22 December 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051119/https://www.libertatea.ro/sport/nu-joaca-de-copil-aradeanul-forteaza-7-victorie-doua-saptamani-livescore-1640879url-status=live}}141.0 mph-152.0 mph126.0 mph
14AUS Alexei Popyrin243.0 km/h2023 TokyoSinglesQF
POL Hubert Hurkacz243.0 km/h2016 Davis CupSingles1R134.0 mph121.0 mph
16GER Oscar Otte151.0 mph2021 US OpenSingles4R
17USA Ben Shelton241.4 km/h (150.0 mph)2025 BNP Paribas OpenSingles2R
18USA Taylor Dent241.0 km/h2006 ABN AMRO World Tennis TournamentSingles1R
19USA Reilly Opelka240.3 km/h (149.3 mph)2021 Australian OpenSingles2R
20Latvia Ernests Gulbis240 km/h2007 St. Petersburg OpenSingles?
ARG Juan Martín del Potro240 km/h2017 Stockholm OpenSinglesF136.0 mph120.0 mph
22GBR Greg Rusedski149 mph1998 Newsweek Champions CupSinglesSF
23RUS Dmitry Tursunov237.0 km/h2006 Davis CupSinglesSF
France Paul-Henri Mathieu237.0 km/h2007 Davis CupSinglesQF
FRA Jo-Wilfried Tsonga237.0 km/h2014 Rogers CupSinglesQF
USA Frances Tiafoe237.0 km/h2018 Estoril OpenSinglesF
ESP Bernabé Zapata Miralles237.0 km/h2022 Monte-CarloSinglesQ
28USA Taylor Fritz147.0 mph2020 US OpenSingles3R136.0 mph116.0 mph
GER Alexander Zverev147.0 mph2021 BNP Paribas OpenSingles2R
30CHI Fernando González236.0 km/h2007 Italian OpenSinglesSF
31FRA Gaël Monfils146.0 mph2007 Legg Mason Tennis ClassicSinglesQF
SRB Dušan Vemić146.0 mph2008 Countrywide ClassicSingles?
CRO Marin Čilić146.0 mph2016 Davis CupSingles1R
Italy Matteo Berrettini146.0 mph2021 Mutua Madrid OpenSinglesF142.0 mph127.0 mph
35CRO Ivan Ljubičić234.0 km/h2005 Mutua Madrileña Masters MadridSinglesF
Lithuania Ričardas Berankis234.0 km/h2011 Open d'OrléansSingles1R
SWI Stan Wawrinka234.0 km/h2016 Davis CupDoublesSF
38GBR Andy Murray145.0 mph2007 SAP OpenSingles1R
BUL Grigor Dimitrov145.0 mph2013 Aegon ChampionshipsSingles?
SRB Viktor Troicki145.0 mph2017 Davis CupSingles?
POL [Tomasz Berkieta]145.0 mph2024 Australian Open – Boys' singles2R1R
42CHI Nicolás Jarry233.0 km/h2018 Davis Cup?1R
43ESP Fernando Verdasco232.0 km/h2009 French Open??
AUT Dominic Thiem232.0 km/h2017 Gerry Weber Open??
45USA Mardy Fish231.7 km/h2007 Pacific Life OpenSingles1R
POL Marcin Matkowski231.7 km/h2009 ATP World Tour FinalsDoubles?
47RUS Pavel Kotov231.0 km/h2025 Australian OpenSingles1R
48SWE Robin Söderling143.0 mph2010 ATP World Tour FinalsSinglesRR
DEU Daniel Brands143.0 mph2011 Intersport Heilbronn Open??
CZE Jiří Veselý143.0 mph2014 WimbledonSingles2R
GEO Nikoloz Basilashvili143.0 mph2017 WimbledonSingles2R
AUS Nick Kyrgios143.0 mph2019 WimbledonSingles2R139.0 mph121.0 mph
KAZ Alexander Bublik143.0 mph2022 Indian WellsSingles2R134.0 mph126.0 mph
54NED Martin Verkerk230.0 km/h2003 Breil Milano Indoor??
SWI Roger Federer230.0 km/h2010 Gerry Weber OpenSinglesF

Women

The WTA doesn't keep official serve speed rankings of its own for all its events for a variety of reasons—mainly that serve speed isn't captured on every court at every tournament, and sometimes the technology being used isn't consistent from event to event. The Women's Tennis Association does have an external partner that it officially recognizes which measures and maintains serve speed data at selected number of events. It does not recognize at all, 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 measurement systems or brands (at the discretion of the host or organizer) that are not using technology provided by ATP/WTA's official supplier or partner (currently SMT/IDS), or speeds recorded at any of the non-WTA professional women's tournaments such as the ITF Women's Circuit, the Fed Cup, and Olympics tennis are not added to WTA's official list of records.

RankPlayerSpeedEvent"IDS (Information and Display Systems) 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-leadersRef.
1ESP Georgina García Pérez220 km/h2018 Hungarian Ladies Open
2BLR Aryna Sabalenka214 km/h2018 WTA Elite Trophy
3DE Sabine Lisicki210.8 km/h2014 Stanford
4USA Venus Williams207.6 km/h2007 US Open
USA Alycia Parks207.6 km/h2021 US Open
6USA Serena Williams207 km/h2013 Australian Open
7USA Coco Gauff206 km/h2022 US Open
RUS Liudmila Samsonova206 km/h2025 Wimbledon
9JPN Naomi Osaka205 km/h2024 Abu Dhabi Open
10KAZ Elena Rybakina204 km/h2024 Abu Dhabi Open
11FRA Caroline Garcia203 km/h2016 Fed Cup
12NED Brenda Schultz-McCarthy202.7 km/h2007 Indian Wells Masters
13FRA Kristina Mladenovic200 km/h2009 French Open

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