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. However, because radars are not strictly calibrated for Challenger events, the ATP does not recognize Sam Groth's serve as the official, tour-level record.
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 Stoefen 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 minimum standard speed. Women's serves must be recorded at or over minimum standard speed. Only one serve per player is recorded here. For example, Andy Roddick has several or faster serves on his record but only his personal best of 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.Non-outlier maxAverage first serve 1 Sam Groth 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) 2012 Busan Open Challenger TennisSingles2R 2 Albano Olivetti 2012 Internazionali Trofeo Lame Perrel–Faip Singles1R 3 Mark Wallner 2025 Atkinsons Monza Challenger Doubles1R 5 John Isner 2016 Davis Cup Singles1R 6 Ivo Karlović 2011 Davis Cup Doubles1R Jerzy Janowicz 2012 Pekao Szczecin Open Singles1R – 8 Milos Raonic 2012 SAP Open Singles2R 9 Andy Roddick 2004 Davis Cup SinglesSF 10 Chris Guccione2006 Davis CupSingles1R 11 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)12 Roscoe Tanner246.2 km/h (153 mph) 1978 American Airlines Tennis GamesSinglesF13 Joachim Johansson2004 Davis CupDoubles1R Feliciano López 2014 Aegon Championships Singles1R 15 Marius Copil 2016 European Open SinglesQF -16 Alexei Popyrin 2023 Tokyo SinglesQF Hubert Hurkacz 2016 Davis Cup Singles1R 18 Oscar Otte2021 US Open Singles4R 20 Taylor Dent 2006 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Singles1R 21 Reilly Opelka240.3 km/h (149.3 mph)2021 Australian OpenSingles2R22 Ernests Gulbis2007 St. Petersburg OpenSingles ? Juan Martín del Potro 2017 Stockholm Open SinglesF Ben Shelton2026 US Open – Men's singlesSinglesSF 24 Greg Rusedski1998 Newsweek Champions CupSinglesSF 25 Dmitry Tursunov 2006 Davis Cup SinglesSF Paul-Henri Mathieu2007 Davis CupSinglesQF Thiago Agustin Tirante2026 National Bank OpenSingles2R Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2014 Rogers Cup SinglesQF Frances Tiafoe2018 Estoril OpenSinglesF Bernabé Zapata Miralles 2022 Monte-Carlo Singles Q31 Taylor Fritz 2020 US Open Singles3R Alexander Zverev 2021 BNP Paribas Open Singles2R 33 Fernando González 2007 Italian Open SinglesSF 34 Gaël Monfils 2007 Legg Mason Tennis Classic SinglesQF Dušan Vemić 2008 Countrywide Classic Singles ? Marin Čilić2016 Davis CupSingles1R Matteo Berrettini 2021 Mutua Madrid Open SinglesF 39 Ivan Ljubičić 2005 Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid SinglesF Ričardas Berankis 2011 Open d'Orléans Singles1R Stan Wawrinka 2016 Davis Cup DoublesSF 42 Andy Murray 2007 SAP Open Singles1R Grigor Dimitrov 2013 Aegon ChampionshipsSingles ? Viktor Troicki2017 Davis CupSingles ? Tomasz Berkieta 2024 Australian Open – Boys' singlesSingles1R 46 Nicolás Jarry 2018 Davis Cup ?1R 47 Fernando Verdasco 2009 French Open ? ? Dominic Thiem 2017 Gerry Weber Open? ? 49 Mardy Fish 2007 Pacific Life Open Singles1R Marcin Matkowski 2009 ATP World Tour FinalsDoubles ? Ben Shelton2026 US Open – Men's singlesSinglesSF 51 Pavel Kotov 2025 Australian Open Singles1R 52 Robin Söderling 2010 ATP World Tour Finals SinglesRR Daniel Brands2011 Intersport Heilbronn Open? ? Jiří Veselý 2014 Wimbledon Singles2R Nikoloz Basilashvili 2017 Wimbledon Singles2R Nick Kyrgios 2019 Wimbledon Singles2R Alexander Bublik 2022 Indian Wells Singles2R 58 Martin Verkerk2003 Breil Milano Indoor? ? Roger Federer 2010 Gerry Weber Open SinglesF
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-leaders Ref. 1 Georgina García Pérez 2018 Hungarian Ladies Open 2 Aryna Sabalenka2018 WTA Elite Trophy 3 Sabine Lisicki 2014 Stanford 4 Venus Williams 2007 US Open Alycia Parks 2021 US Open 6 Serena Williams 2013 Australian Open 7 Coco Gauff 2022 US Open Liudmila Samsonova 2025 Wimbledon 9 Naomi Osaka 2024 Abu Dhabi Open 10 Elena Rybakina2024 Abu Dhabi Open 11 Caroline Garcia 2016 Fed Cup 12 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 2007 Indian Wells Masters 13 Kristina Mladenovic 2009 French Open
See also
Ace (tennis)
References