fastest groundstrokes of all times

by **Chederer** » Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:33

as we all know Gael Monfils holds the record for fastest ground stroke clocked at 118mph....but i found some other interesting facts which i think are NOT TRUE...what is your opinion and if you can find any other facts of fastest serve or fastest ground strokes(besides roddick or monfils) please share

At a professional event in 1951, the forehand drives of a number of players were electronically measured. Pancho Gonzales hit the fastest, at 112.88 mph, followed by Jack Kramer at 107.8 and Welby Van Horn at 104. :shock:

OVER MY DEAD BODY

by **jayl0ve** » Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:38

Yeah I've seen those stats before...total BS. I don't think they had radar guns back then (actually I don't think RADAR had yet been invented) so I hope they weren't just sitting there with an analog stopwatch, timing FH drives.

I doubt those old-timers were hitting much harder than 70-75 mph at their very hardest.

I"ve always found these stats you mention EXTREMELY odd and have always wondered why they're still circulating around when they're obvious BS

by **VillaJ100** » Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:21

Yeah like they reckon roscoe tanner had a 160 mph serve lol. It was probably about 130. Old tech can't really be trusted.

by **Chederer** » Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:24

i found somewhere they said that "Big Bill" Tilden had a 161mph serve

by **Coolhand Texas** » Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:28

161mph with that technology :lol:

by **FranciscoCagao** » Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:32

The fastest serve ever is from William 'Big Bill' Tatem Tilden 263.2km/h=163-402mph in 1931

by **jayl0ve** » Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:37

Thank you for that...

by **Coolhand Texas** » Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:54

there needs to be a correction to history.

I recently hit a serve that broke 170mph. it was with a wooden racquet and i used weed eater string for my racquet!

suck it bill tilden!

by **VillaJ100** » Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:00

i think probably the fastest possible serve even with future technology and athletes will be around 165-170. kinda funny to see that apparently tilden hit those regular

by **FranciscoCagao** » Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:51

Has anyone ever seen the return winner of Agassi in an exhibition match Federer and Sampras vs Nadal and Agassi ?

This should be the greatest and more powerful groundstroke ever

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