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This article lists the fastest record serve speeds for men's and women's professional tennis. The fastest recorded serve is by Sam Groth , at 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) at a Challenger event. [ 1 ] 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 .
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Fastest serve on the women's tour [27 ^ Pete Sampras is considered by many to have the greatest serve in the history of men's tennis. ^ Serena Williams is widely considered to have the greatest serve in the history of women's tennis.
On the women's side, serve-and-volley has become almost extinct at the very top level. Taylor Townsend, Karolína Muchová and Hsieh Su-wei are the only active notable (WTA elite) players that prefers to play with this style. Other players, despite not being pure serve-and-volleyers, do employ serve-and-volley as a surprise tactic.
A volley in tennis is a shot where the ball is struck before it bounces on the ground. Typically, a player hits a volley while standing near the net, though it can be executed further back, in the middle of the tennis court, or even near the baseline. The word derives from M. French volée meaning flight.
And 19 years after that, in 2001, Ian Thorpe was 4.24 seconds faster than Gaines had been. By 2009, in the supersuit’s last hurrah, the men’s 200 free world record dropped 10.78 seconds lower ...
The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. Sergey Bubka 's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect.