Men’s Fastest Tennis Serve

Bombing serves doesn’t make you a great player, but it is fun to track. Sam Groth reached a career-high of 53rd in the world a few years ago, but is a name many tennis fans know because he hit the fastest modern serve on record. Certainly, there were powerful servers years ago that didn’t have the benefit of modern equipment. As you will see most of this list is the more recent players that while powerful or tall were using modern alloys and not wood or steel rackets. A player like Groth was built more like a linebacker than your typical tennis player. He stood 6-4, 220lbs which is incredibly heavy for a tennis player. His physique allowed him to generate great power. In 2011 he was a member of an Australian Rules Football club in his tennis hiatus.

As you can see from these highlights even his typical serve was usually well in the 140’s and gave him a powerful weapon and tennis career.