📏 Sport by Numbers
How fast was the fastest officially recorded tennis serve?
The answer
253 km/h
John Isner hit it at the 2016 Davis Cup. Sam Groth was clocked at 263.4 km/h in 2012, but at a Challenger, whose radar the ATP doesn’t recognise.
Asked in Plain #12 on Thursday, October 29, 2026.
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