The secret in the strongest serve on the tennis court

If each racket and trying to serve, you will understand how hard this shot is. Not only need to bring the ball through the net, you also have to try to speed up the ball that is both fast and accurate. The serve is a place that shows the difference between professional and amateur players. This is an extremely important weapon in contemporary tennis. Typically Wimbledon 2025, fans witnessed the fastest serve in 148 years of the tournament history, when Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard made "Rocket " 246 km/h in the match against Taylor Fritz in the first round. "The polishing movement is the result of the action series that you try to optimize each movement in each stage, that is, we use the energy of the whole body, synthesized from the bottom up and generate the force into the ball ".

    The secret in the strongest serve on the tennis court

After many years of research on the biological motion of the player when serve, Mr. Kovacs pointed out eight factors on this shot: standing, opening the ball, preparing, bending, acceleration, exposure, deceleration and ending - the time the player touches the ground again. In the movement chain. Help him was a famous player with a powerful serve, including John Isner - who was recognized by ATP to own the fastest serve in 2016 with a speed of 253 km/h. The first is the third phase - preparing, when the player sets the body position before the time of touching the ball. The key here is the back of the hip. Next, from the fifth to seven - including acceleration, exposure, deceleration, arm speed moving throughout this action series will determine the speed of the serve. "They may not be good at technology in all steps, but they know how to put their arms into the right position and perform the movement at the right time. Just do technical standards that period only serve very well." The best players today all own an average height. This trend also takes place in many other sports, such as basketball.

"The force is equal to the volume of acceleration. "The weight is body weight, and usually the higher the weight, the heavier the weight. And the acceleration is leverage, meaning the length of the arms and feet. At that time, you will create a greater acceleration because there is more time to complete the movement ". With a height of 2m03, Olivetti used to serve 257.5 km/h at a Challenger event in 2012, although the number was not recognized by ATP due to not the official prize of the system.

"Height over 1m98 allows the player to beat the ball straight from the top down when contacting the racket at the serve ", Mr. Kovacs added. "If lower than that, you are actually polishing a bit, which not many people realize, not the ball down. The small difference makes a huge difference in speed ". As a person who is always higher than his opponent, Olivetti affirms that the technique is still more important than pure physical body.. That is why he honed the serve skills when he was young. The 33 -year -old player took the example of the previous racket, with his favorite string, helping him to have more strength in the serve, but making the serve from the end line become more difficult. "I kept the gaming game, but I couldn't win when you were delivered. Each player was different, you had to find the right balance for your gameplay, and I think the racket plays a very important role in that ." Many people think that current players have not reached the limit that a player can achieve in the serve. Such as Jannik Sinner. Olivetti believes that the world's number one player can increase an average of 16 km/h for the serve.

"Of course, there will be limits, but with the assumption of everything that is kept, from technology, ball, wire, racket as well as temperature and environment ," Mr. Kovacs added. "Part of the reason Wimbledon this year has more strong serve because the weather is hotter and drier in the early days, the ball is lighter when flying in the air, so it goes faster. In this condition, the speed of the ball can be added 5-8 km/h compared to the usual condition ". The more it affects the results, these skill records may be rushed in the next decade.