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Women's Tennis

Sabine Lisicki

210.8 km/h serve on 29 July 2014, first round of the Bank of the West Classic against Ana Ivanovic.

Also known as Lisicki 131 mph
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Ball speed

Published as 210.8 km/hPublished as 210.8 km/hPublished as 210.8 km/h

Serve radar in the first set of a first-round match, Sabine Lisicki against Ana Ivanovic, Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, 29 July 2014. Guinness leads with 131 mph (210.8 km/h). The BBC prints 131 mph. Those are the same figure.

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In context

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  • London to New York in 26 h 25 minConstant · London to New York, 5,570 km great-circle

Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

This list

Why it's so fast

A WTA main-draw serve is the same throw, timed on the match radar. The list keeps a figure three independent pages print, and it leaves a one-page reading off.

  1. Contact speed

    The ball is fastest as it leaves the strings. What the returner sees is already that reading, not a later guess.

  2. Main draw only

    Qualifying, ITF, and a figure that only one compilation prints are not added. The ranked speed is the one the citations share.

This is how the category works. A note written for this entry appears here once it is in the database.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 210.8km/h131mph58.6m/s114knRanked figure

    Serve radar in the first set of a first-round match, Sabine Lisicki against Ana Ivanovic, Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, 29 July 2014. Guinness leads with 131 mph (210.8 km/h). The BBC prints 131 mph. Those are the same figure.

    Tennis Companion prints 210.8 km/h (131.0 mph) at the 2014 Stanford Classic.

    Official
    Guinness World Records (opens source in a new tab)

Reference

Specs

Server
Sabine Lisicki
Event
2014 Bank of the West Classic
Speed
210.8 km/h
Date
29 July 2014

Context

Background

Guinness prints Sabine Lisicki at 131 mph (210.8 km/h) on 29 July 2014, in the first set of a first-round match against Ana Ivanovic at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford. The BBC prints the fastest-recorded serve in women's tennis at 131 mph in a first-round loss in Stanford. Tennis Companion prints 210.8 km/h (131.0 mph) at the 2014 Stanford Classic.

The ranked figure is 210.8 km/h, the kilometre number Guinness prints beside 131 mph. The stored day is 29 July 2014. Georgina García Pérez's faster unofficial mark is not on this list.

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