IDS Serve Speed Leaders

Serena Williams has the fastest serve of the season and second-fastest of all time from data collected by IDS.

Published March 30, 2013 12:00

IDS Serve Speed Leaders
Serena Williams


2013

RANK NAME MPH KPH TOURNAMENT
1 Serena Williams (USA) 128.6 207.0 Australian Open
2 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 123.0 198.0 Brisbane
3T Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 119.9 193.0 Brisbane
3T Tamira Paszek (AUT) 119.9 193.0 Brisbane
5T Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 119.3 192.0 Brisbane
5T Sloane Stephens (USA) 119.3 192.0 Australian Open
5T Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 119.3 192.0 Australian Open
8T Petra Kvitova (CZE) 118.7 191.0 Brisbane
8T Madison Keys (USA) 118.7 191.0 Australian Open
10 Venus Williams (USA) 118.1 190.0 Australian Open


All-Time

RANK NAME MPH KPH TOURNAMENT
1 Venus Williams (USA) 129.0 207.6 2007 US Open
2 Serena Williams (USA) 128.6 207.0 2013 Australian Open
3 Julia Goerges (GER) 126.1 203.0 2012 French Open
4 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) 126.0 202.7 2007 Indian Wells
5 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 125.0 201.2 2011 Stanford
6 Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) 125.0 201.1 2009 Indian Wells
7 Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 124.9 201.0 2007 French Open
8 Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 124.3 200.0 2009 French Open
9 Tatjana Malek (GER) 124.0 199.6 2012 US Open
10 Li Na (CHN) 123.7 199.0 2010 French Open

Note: IDS only collects serve speed data on show courts at certain events (11 in 2013) 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.

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