What It’s Like to Face a 150 M P H Tennis Serve The New York Times

Serena Williams would have no problems beating that serve. She's the GOAT.

So that means I can serve faster than McEnroe (my fastest ever is 117)

thanks for sharing, cool video

Piece of cake

Interesting video

Very nice statistics regarding the speed before and after the bounce. But let us not forget Roddick can serve a ball into the ground, so no bounce at all. Good luck with returning that on instinct.

It's almost like they're all on steroids now

147mph?? Or kph...?

I fell of my chair

Hold my cricket ball.

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Keep in mind this is on a video. I Tried returning a 120mph serve and it looks way faster.

POV: you're receiving.

In cricket, a hard leather ball comes straight at you from 22 yards at 150 km/hr.

Lol you kids can't handle cricket then.

wow!!! Americans really pushing their miles per hour notation. But my fellow earthmate , it ain't gonna work. It's obsolete.

Why are there so many cricket comments? And why are they confusing km/h with mph?

Andy Roderick was rocketing them towards Eugene Bouchard in mixed doubles at Wimbledon. You can hardly call him a gentleman. Zero respect for men who do that to women.. even if it is a competition.

McEnroe was limited by a wood racquet.

Oh ,if the speed is measured at the release point of the serve . Then it's slower compared to cricket ball to the batsman at the striker contact point .

When you face serve like this, you have to back up to receive. I never stay at the same spot to receive. I played a D1 college player once, at a time he was already in the 50's . The serve still had a lot of speed and kick, so the only way is to receive further back, or it would kick up too fast to my eye, unless I were Federer and could get the ball before it bounced that high. Then I played also rec players who could only dink the ball over the net. In that case I had to stand near the service line to receive.

The technology is not capable of recording Zverev’s 2nd serve yet

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For some time I served like Mac. Obviously not to speak of but at my 4.0 level my besties told me it was definitely harder to pick where I was going and I have a somewhat neutral toss. Also from sideways your slice serve is really a tough nugget. Anyway but just OMG I could not imagine returning the shit that comes off of modern era pros. And I mean ANY PRO.

This video makes me appreciate every break point these players get

The animation is not exact. The ball starts off much faster, then slows down as it gets closer. Thus animation gives the impression you can track the ball from the beginning so easily.

I feel like i lost my right eye vision.

McEnroe played with a wooden racquet in the early 80s. He had a great serve. Still does.

This video went by just as fast.

152

WTF aspect ratio is this

He changed speeds like a baseball pitcher. He hit it flat, or kicked it and he would hit an American twist as well. Best serve and volley game of all time. A magician at the net.

They need to go back to wood rackets to make the men's professional game interesting again...

Bro that start scared the s**t outta me

As a tennis player I was confused why he was saying it is tough to return a serve with the ball coming at you lol

Interesting how as a tennis player myself I don't find the last serve to be impressive from this angle, but that first serve does seem impossible to stop.

bruh have u faced a leather ball with the speed of 150 -160 mph it is way harder than a tennis ball

No serve returner squats down so that their eye level is at the same height as the ball. No one. Only the makers of this video I guess. (They're really smart).The recreation is really kind of a meaningless exercise.

Really great video, short and exactly answers the question I was asking!

I love how they just pick on McEnroe

Yeah were standing still moving a little thats a lot of wind resist to the little fuzzy yellow ball...thanks...so last i heard Roddick waa138...so his speed has climbed to 150....since i saw him play macenroes senior tour...i know they did make a new more deader tennis ball that bounced like a cardboard brick dont know if its still being used or if it was just at wimbleton or some particular tournament only...the tennis ball was like a baseball hard as i was bouncing it during my serve warm up...thanks i cant believe how quick it falls off...u know the most amazing part is these tremendous atheletes are doing this with the those big over sized air resistant racquets...midsize racquet move much better an have more control an dont flutter....

Its amazing roger could track that serve he hit winners off it too....

See the problem is you shoul put your racket in front of the ball not your face.

You need to stay like Nadal (5 meters behind the baseline) to return this

Ummmm

I didn't see anything...

Really neat video...and something I've wondered about from the receiver's side. Thank you!

3 m from baseline like Medvedev help

Absolutely love this video. Top stuff. What software was used to generate the court view!

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