who served the fastest serve in tennis and what was the speed?
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andy roddick 264.2 km/h\n153m/h\nthat's fast
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A bit of clarification: first of all, the man that the Williams sisters lost to was ranked 205 at the time. The Williams sisters had been claiming to the media that they could beat any professional male outside of the top 100 men in the world. Apparently, after being smoked by an aging player (who prepared for his match by downing a few beers, among other things), they changed their song and started claiming being able to beat any male outside of the top 350 in the world.\n\nAnd as for the Billy Jean King match, it should be noted that the match pitted King against a 55 year old man. Bobby Riggs wasn't one of the top men's players in the world anymore--he wasn't even a professional player, anymore. His glory days where in the 1930s and 40s, not in the 70s when the Battle of the Sexes took place.\n\nBut to answer your question directly, no. The ATP Tour is for men's tennis, while the WTA is for women. Maybe your question is more 'Can women physically compete with men' rather than a question of rules.\n\nIn order to better understand the differences between women's and men's tennis, go to your closest D1 university and watch the men's and the women's teams play. You'll notice a few differences, among which: the men are able to produce more velocity on the ball from more positions (i.e., in the men's game defenders can turn into attackers from virtually anywhere), the serves are all bigger, and their movement is usually better.\n\nAnother anecdote to put things in perspective: when I was a junior player in a small city, there was a woman on the WTA tour from our city. One day she played one of my 16 year old friends in a training match. He was a good player--ranked among the top 5 in the state for his age, and probably among the top 100 to 50 in the region--but he almost beat her and lost 5-7 or 4-6, something like that.\n\nI'm afraid that the gap is still too big between the top men and the top women in the world.\n\nI hope that helps.
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Sex God Naval won. the match was awesome, and Federer was very very good, esp at the beginning.
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its federer or nadal.
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Rod Laver. He won four grand slams in Tennis. Plus the quality of opposing players in his times was very high. They were legends in thier lifetime. A galaxy of super tennis players appeared at that time.
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Jim Courier (USA) [1]          def. Petr Korda (CZE) [7]               7-5 6-2 6-1
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Thats a tough one mate. Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thompson, Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee are a few of the Aussie quicks. But I think Joel (BIGBIRD) Gardner and Michael Holding from the West Indies were very quick as are a couple of the Pakistani boys. You would have to go to the record books to find out who is or was the fastest.
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Tennis vs. Badminton\n=====================\n\nStatistics don't lie. The speed and the stamina required for badminton are far greater than for any other racket sport. At the 1985 All England (Tennis) Championships, Boris Becker defeated Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. At the 1985 World Badminton Championships in Calgary, Canada, Han Jian of China defeated Morten Frost of Denmark, 14-18, 15-10, 15-8. The following is a statistical comparison of those matches. \n------------------------------------------------------------\nTennis\n======\nTime:                  3 hrs & 18 mins\nBall/Shuttle in Play:  18 mins\nMatch Intensity*:      9 percent\nRallies:               299  \nShots:       1,004  \nShots Per Rally:       3.4\nDistance Covered:      2 miles  \n\nBadminton\n==========\nTime:  1 hr & 16 mins\nBall/Shuttle in Play:  37 mins\nMatch Intensity*:  48 percent\nRallies:  146\nShots:  1,972\nShots Per Rally:  3.5\nDistance Covered:  4 miles\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------\n* The actual time the ball/shuttle was in flight, divided by the length of the match. \n-----------------------------------------------------------\nNote that the badminton players competed for half the time, yet ran twice as far and hit nearly twice as many shots. \n-----------------------------------------------------------
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obviously pete sampras
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If you go to yahoo sports and click on tennis it will give the current rankings for both men and women. Hope this helps!
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Jeff Larson\n\nhttp://www.chaffeybreeze.com/media/storage/paper257/news/2005/07/12/Sports/Fastest.Swimmer.In.The.Nation-961662.shtml?norewrite200606080604&sourcedomain=www.chaffeybreeze.com
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Kournikova.\n\nShe's retired now.
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15 seconds - by Vaclav Masek (Czechoslovakia) against Mexico in Chile, June 1962.\nSource-Sam
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The flat serve is a very effective weapon, as it is the fastest serve. \n \n   \n  Steps:  \n1.   Grip the racket with a Continental grip, not a forehand grip (see the Related eHows).  \n  \n2.   Stand near the center mark for hitting down the centerline. Stand farther from the center mark for a wide, flat serve.  \n  \n3.   Assume the normal posture for a serve, with a sideways stance and your hands down.  \n  \n4.   Throw the racket to the "back-scratch" position as you toss the ball in front of you.  \n  \n5.   Toss the ball farther in front than you would for a slice, topspin or kick serve and farther to your right for right-handed hitters.  \n  \n6.   Throw your racket out of the back-scratch position, with your palm facing the net at contact with the ball.  \n  \n7.   Hit the ball with your arm fully extended.  \n  \n8.   Let your arm finish the serve on either the right or left side of your body.  \n  \n  \n  Tips:  \n Mix a flat serve with other service choices, so it will not be predictable to your opponent.  \n  \n Practice hitting down the line on the deuce side and serving wide on the ad side.  \n  \n  \n  Warnings:  \n Tennis is a physically demanding sport that can result in serious injury. We recommend that you seek the proper equipment and training before undertaking this activity.
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Serves hit with heavy topspin are said to "kick" because of their high bounce. Kick serves come in two varieties, straight topspin and twist (a.k.a. American twist). Picture someone on a mountain bike going off a big jump. A ball hit with a topspin serve would be like the front wheel spinning around and still aligned with the forward motion of the bike. A ball hit with a twist serve would be like that spinning wheel turned, typically, 30 degrees to the right. (We'll assume a right-handed server throughout this article.)\n\nMost tennis pros hit either topspin or twist on more than 90% of their second serves. The reason is simple: at any given serve speed, the heavy topspin in both kick serves allows the server to hit at a much safer height. Without topspin, a second serve has to either clear the net within a dangerously small margin or travel at such a slow speed that it sets the receiver up to attack. With topspin, a serve can be hit at over 100 mph, clear the net by as much as four feet, and still drop into the service box, where it then bounces well above the receiver's comfort zone.\n\nOf the two kick serves, the twist is the harder to return, because its sidespin makes it curve to the receiver's right in the air, then jump to his left on the bounce. Even experienced players often have trouble accurately anticipating where this combination of curves will ultimately put the ball.\n\nFor more details, please follow the below url:
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Fastest person F/E Richard Davey (UK) 1988 08.05 \nFastest woman Penny Lee Dean (USA) E/F 1978 07.40 \nFastest woman F/E Alison streeter MBE (UK) 1989 08.48 \nOldest man George Burnstad (USA) 2004 15.59 (70 yrs 4 days) \nOldest woman Carol Sing (USA) 1999 12.32 (57 yrs) \nYoungest person Thomas Gregory (UK) 1988 11.54 (11yrs 11 months) \nYoungest girl Samantha Druce (UK) 1983 15.28 (12 yrs 118 days) \nLongest time (solo) Henry Sullivan (USA) E/F 1923 26.50 \nLongest time (2-way) Antonio Abertondo (Arg) 1961 43.10 \nFastest 2-way Plil Rush (NZ) E/F/E 1987 16.10 \nFastest 2-way woman Susie Maroney (Australia) 1991 17.14 \nFastest 2-way F/E/F Phil Rush (NZ) 1987 20.26 \nFastest 3-way Phil Rush (NZ) 1987 28.21 \n1st man 3-way  Jon Erikson (USA)   1981 38.26 \n1st woman 3-way Alison Streeter E/F/E/F 1990 34.40 \nRelay records       \nFastest relay US National Swim Team 1990 06.52 \nFastest relay 2-way US National Swim Team 1990 14.18 \n1 st relay 4-way E/F/E/F/E Sun Rice Australia 1993 43.07 \nFastest relay 2-way F/E/F Sun Rice Australia 1993 20.40 \nFastest relay 3-way Sun Rice Australia 1993 31.23 \nFastest relay 3-way F/E/F/E Sun Rice Australia 1993 32.24 \nFastest junior relay Lada Ireland Junior Team 1978 08.40 \nFastset junior relay F/E BLDSA Junior members 1984 08.46
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Federer, Agassi, Nadal, Roddick, Mayer,and Hewitt!