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Simon Cambers
Jun 30, 2025, 04:45 PM ET
WIMBLEDON, England -- Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard deed the fastest service ever recorded astatine Wimbledon connected Monday, clocking 153 mph (246 kph) successful the archetypal round.
The 6-foot-8 Mpetshi Perricard recorded the service successful the archetypal acceptable of his first-round lucifer against American Taylor Fritz, hitting different astatine 151 mph.
The caller people breaks the erstwhile grounds of 148 mph acceptable by American Taylor Dent successful 2010. Tracking of serves began astatine Wimbledon successful 1991.
World No 36 Mpetshi Perricard topped the work speeds astatine Wimbledon successful 2024 with 140 mph. American Ben Shelton was initially recorded astatine 153 mph the aforesaid year, but his service was aboriginal corrected to 132 mph owed to a malfunction.
