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Authentic speed but not accurate
Colin Dibley, whose 148-mph serve was the fastest in tennis for 24 years
— until Greg Rusedski and Andy Roddick hit 149- mph rockets — operates a tennis
academy in Meyersville, N.J. He estimates his tour prize money at about $700,000 between
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Not official
Britain's Mike Sangster had a serve timed at 154 m.p.h. in 1963
Source:Source:Tina Cheung -- 2001 |
Ellsworth Vines was clocked at 128 m.p.h. and his 1930s
contemporary Lester Rollo Stoeten sent down a serve timed at 131 m.p.h.
Source:Source:Tina Cheung -- 2001 |
Speed is not accurate, we have no proof.
Guinness Superlatives LTD, 1982508. The fastest service ever measured was oneof 163.6 mph
by William Tatem Tilden (18931953) (US) in 1931. , 73 m/s.
Source: Source:Tina Cheung -- 2001 |
Unless he was a gorilla.....?
Then in 1981 a West German lawn tennis coach and statistician, Horst Goepper,
claimed a serving speed of 199.53 m.p.h.during a test in Weinheim."
Source:Source:Tina Cheung -- 2001 |
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Yes but not registered
To know what it is like for a top server to win it, let us drop back in history to examine
the details of a 1976 event. That's when legendary Roscoe Tanner, whose
serve a radar gun once clocked at 153 mph, blasted into the winner's circle.
Source:Source:Tina Cheung -- 2001 |
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Bill Cole
Bill competed at the national level in tennis and badminton. He reached the quarter-finals
of the first US Intercollegiate Badminton Doubles Championships. He was a #1 high school
tennis team player and #1 college tennis team player and played in hundreds of competitive
events over a career of 15 years. He was winner or finalist in 25 tennis tournaments and
played professional tennis in the 1970's. In 1981, he posted a win over Steve Denton, who
went on to become the fastest server (130 mph) in pro tennis history. He played the #1 pro
tennis player in the world eyeball-to-eyeball in 1983 and lived to tell about it. As a
kid, Bill was an All-Star Little-League baseball pitcher.
Source:Tina Cheung --
2001 |
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Brenda Schultz-McCarthy.
Personal Profile. Fastest serve on WTA Tour (123mph |
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