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

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

[@sportsinsight5979]

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[@sureshmehra5946]

Done

[@nickbaritone]

McEnroe’s serve had a lot of kick. Not as fast, but tricky to read.

[@brianliu7991]

Yeah and also the racquet technology is super different

[@woswasdenni1914]

and dotn forget the angle. i tryed a little bit that mcenroe serve back then and it really did work. slow AF but hell of an angle. but i realized quickly why mcenroe had back problems lol

[@Atombender]

Almost impossible to read because he was basically standing parallel to the baseline. Unless you're Ivan Lendl of course.

[@KingCast65]

@@woswasdenni1914 He served that way because of his back problems.

[@bdgregorybd]

Exactly he had varying degrees of lefty spin or slice to manipulate the ball however he saw fit

[@gurbindersekhon8240]

This dude has a grudge against McEnroe

[@michael8815]

lmao

[@viksinha5410]

How?

[@aaronpannell6401]

I don't think anyone can hit 140 with the kind of racquets McEnroe was using.

[@y11971alex]

@@aaronpannell6401 I think roscoe tanner had a famously fast serve in that era, but nobody seems to have measured it accurately. Apparently a consistent and deep serve was all that was needed to set up a good first volley.

[@aaronpannell6401]

@@y11971alex I feel like they should have software that can measure how fast a ball is going just from the video. Computer engineers need to get on that

[@SassanMedia]

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

[@patrickohennesy6539]

No not yet 😂

[@chandlerladenburg9916]

OMG. IM DYING RN

[@imaginesleeping9640]

LMFAOO PLEASE

[@d1ab]

I don’t get it what happened

[@i0wi]

I blinked and missed it

[@richardhaley3347]

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.

[@deanepeterson9286]

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

[@sportsinsight5979]

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[@Mitjitsu]

130mph slice serve is much harder to return than a 150mph fast ball.

[@hello-mv6yg]

@Mr Beast exactly.

[@hh-uc3gr]

Does a 130mph slice even exist lol

[@hello-mv6yg]

@@hh-uc3gr Pretty sure it doesn't

[@bone9jdjkaye]

@@hello-mv6yg Think Berritini got close.

[@simpilot001]

I love how they just pick on McEnroe

[@flyingpenandpaper6119]

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

[@KingCast65]

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.

[@deshawnfrost7947]

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

[@psych7656]

POV: you're receiving.

[@patrickohennesy6539]

POV: no shit

[@kelliebrooks9094]

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....

[@investmentgenius7238]

3 m from baseline like Medvedev help

[@vambo13257]

That view is inaccurate because it is where the ball would be hitting the racket

[@avinashankamreddi9113]

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 .

[@sol029]

A tennis serve can be hit so you need to take several steps to return before you can even reach it. Cricket or baseball they throw right to a small target. You don't have to move to the ball.

[@montanso8267]

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

[@t14dann18]

Actually, McEnroe is lefty and the serve they showed had clear righty spin. So, that's wrong

[@panjiasmoro2761]

What picknic? It's panicking..

[@vliegendehollander]

That's because you don't play tennis. For tennis players it's hard to get the return back in the court, but you're not afraid it's going to hit you. Tennis players have enough practice & coordination to at least get their racquet on the ball to protect it from hitting their body. The only time tennis players get hit is when playing doubles because when you're standing closer at net you sometimes don't have time to react. And that's no fun, I've had the wind knocked out of me.

[@panjiasmoro2761]

@@vliegendehollander well, i got hit sometimes when played double. And guess who hit me.. my team mate.. lol. Btw i'm a tennis player, my ntrp is 1, lol

[@LowkAlexander]

I think I got a chance

[@jimspencer5746]

Ummmm

[@jazzed2b]

I didn't see anything...

[@prabhanjanak5805]

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

[@baloog8]

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.

[@AtulSharma-gy6xg]

non- sports when start analysing sports , this is what you get !

[@discoguru8363]

Ah the amazing internet critique. No valuable input about what's wrong, what can be better or any offering of personal credentials, but the utmost confidence to comment. Good job, little man!

[@SBasak1989]

147mph?? Or kph...?

[@rahulfederer20]

Miles per hour. It is more than 200 km hour

[@tanmaywadhwa211]

About 235 kphs

[@RealMudSkipper]

WTF aspect ratio is this

[@XxxX-wx3er]

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.

[@roberthays2883]

Dude she’s a professional tennis player lol. She can handle it and should expect it. You always go for the weaker player and find their weak points. If that means hitting a fast flat ball up the T or into the body then you do it.

[@davidrobins1021]

If she's playing mixed doubles, she knows what to expect. What do you want him to do? He's a pro sportsman trying to win a tennis match; he's not going to go easy on an opponent who entered the mixed doubles knowing what it involved.

[@Istrtg]

Batsmen face that speed while batting quite often in Cricket.

[@austinralleta1633]

This is 150 mph, not 150 KPH

[@brunolimon1790]

lol

[@utcougar]

I think someone should clarify you are talking about the receiving ball speed. The other posters are assuming you mean the starting velocity. What he means is that the cricketers return balls that strike the bat/wickets at speeds equal to tennis returners at the string bed. The initial velocity of the bowlers fastest throws are around 160kph at a high point of release and strike grass which reduced torsion on the ball as well as friction on which is also a completely different ball than a tennis ball (the physics of the ball bounce, etc). It’s pretty amazing what pro cricket bowlers can do. I’m American so try not to be biased but the bowlers throws are still more impressive than the 100+ mph MLB pitchers throws.

[@muneebi8273]

Jeff Thompson was 100mph at the receiving end. That too with a cricket hard ball. That too with minimal protection for the 70s batsmen. Just saying 🙄

[@yougood809]

@@muneebi8273 It's way slower than a tennis serve, but the pitch is shorter and the cricket bat is heavier than in Tennis, so I'll give you that. But still, the Tennis serve is faster than the fastest ball ever even at the baseline of the receiving end. It's less dangerous than cricket, but much harder to return.

[@freshtendrills5969]

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

[@rahulfederer20]

Lmao needed a good laugh today. Thanks

[@monalisa-bs4zs]

Except the ball never just appears from nothing.

[@drbonesshow1]

Exactly.

[@yougood809]

@@PierreRoussin That's what you see with a pro serve apparently, unless you're trained.

[@blackhole3407]

You dont have any time to read how opponent is serving. Its just a blink and its gone

[@woswasdenni1914]

@@yougood809 its not training its expierience. you learn to anticipate automatic. you dont need to think while serve where its going, its becomes an instinct and you just react to it without thinking. it usually is actually pretty easy to tget the right corner and all but every once in a while you face a player you cant read then you struggle big time. and yes i was used to return 200+kmh serves. the really difficult part is to return it in a way that is one one hand not to risky on the other dont give to much advantage to the server. its so fast that you almost never have the perfect sweet spot just on reaction as the speed differs.

[@daborshy4089]

Professional players do not rely on sight, but sense the reiatsu emanating from the ball

[@gnochhuos645]

This video makes me appreciate every break point these players get

[@jimkelly4286]

At 130+ mph, the ball looks like a sliver of a needle. Try hitting a 95 mph fastball. You can't. it looks a lot faster than the graphics.

[@akshitthakur6833]

Stone like cricket ball at 95 mph is a killer.

[@ryansodhi1815]

Well if u stand where nadal stands then yes u can actually return it but don't know how to return is gonna get

[@viveknamikaze761]

@@akshitthakur6833 It loses some speed after bounce unlike baseball.

[@akshitthakur6833]

@@viveknamikaze761 it swings too unlike baseball

[@viveknamikaze761]

@@akshitthakur6833 Nowhere close. 1 or 2 does. Baseball is nuts man. With a round bat as well you need to get a hit and have probably once 3 chances to do so or you're out.

[@TheWhiteComet]

I love Andy Roddick's racket dampener

[@adamromero]

I use a rubber band too.

[@bumblebeetunayoutube3711]

i call em vibrastops

[@izhamsham843]

Agassi was the first guy to do that, well, as far as I know.

[@mlizardo]

It’s the story of my life to get hit with a serve like this. I can get it back but it’s all over after the weak return

[@woswasdenni1914]

then you need to take higher risk. you will make much more errors at start but youll get used to it after a while. also you need to vary weak returns.

[@mlizardo]

@@woswasdenni1914 Thanks, Im actually going to my 3 hour lesson today so ill make sure to take your advice to heart

[@aaronpannell6401]

No you should just call the fast balls out.

[@veganpork7601]

@@woswasdenni1914 shut up

[@nb5758]

Woswas is right. You'll lose a lot more points with weak returns than you will just taking a high risk and hitting the ball harder

[@nico74321]

I miss Andy quite abit lol

[@crsantin]

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

[@kishankr8537]

It's still fast even though the speed has been reduced with certain amount off time

[@Mister_Mario]

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

[@user-lk4lx9je4y]

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.

[@PhilipVels]

You also get to see your opponents racket, if you want to simulate the experience, you should have that too.

[@tomsd8656]

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.

[@sundromos9456]

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.

[@bosshadowrock]

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

[@kelliebrooks9094]

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

[@gioberto855]

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

[@pretty_hell]

I feel like i lost my right eye vision.

[@SOSULLI]

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.

[@ashyles0110]

Easy, you just throw the racquet under the exact point where it will land, and it's all good

[@TurnOnTheBackburner]

That ball he served into the ground was for a Gatorade commercial lol.

[@RobinNewton-dy1sh]

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

[@michaeladugue9770]

The xenophobic fireman characteristically fill because quart respectively impress in a cute bacon. awful, terrible bulldozer

[@viksinha5410]

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

[@ryansodhi1815]

Bro how did u get to measure ur serve?

[@viksinha5410]

@@ryansodhi1815 Radar gun

[@tanmaywadhwa211]

@@viksinha5410 racquets at that time.......

[@viksinha5410]

@@tanmaywadhwa211 Well yes that is true

[@tanmaywadhwa211]

@@viksinha5410 well i gotta say you are one of the best to comment on tennis videos! Keep it up I literally see you everywhere lmao

[@chandlerladenburg9916]

Bro that start scared the s**t outta me

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[@bearvillebear1468]

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[@alextaylor8776]

I completely agree, Jesus Christ is Lord and our savior however what does that have to do with tennis?

[@preddy09]

This video went by just as fast.

[@Baboi62182]

I fell of my chair

[@aromax504]

Piece of cake

[@jorgeandrescoppiano]

152

[@republikofmancunia2073]

Interesting video

[@soposh5673]

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

[@fifjason9235]

thanks for sharing, cool video

[@mohamedsuhailirfankhazi6628]

Lol you kids can't handle cricket then.

[@ryansodhi1815]

If u look at the fitness of a professional tennis player and a Cricket player Than Cricket is a lol sport

[@ryansodhi1815]

147 mph is still much faster than any cricket ball ever thrown

[@mohamedsuhailirfankhazi6628]

@@ryansodhi1815 bruh you do know that many bowlers can clock 150+ right? Have you seen Mitchell Starc today?

[@derekmeade1741]

@@mohamedsuhailirfankhazi6628 bro u can’t compare tennis and cricket, tennis is way better

[@viveknamikaze761]

@@mohamedsuhailirfankhazi6628 150 kmph not mph. There is a k before the m.

[@drincmusic2769]

... I could return that actually...

[@yougood809]

Good on ya bud

[@arghadeeprudra9983]

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

[@p1x3lFPS]

we're talking about 150 mph here, get lost with your cricket