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Who has the best serve?
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05 Aug 2009, 00:06by Togtdyalttai
Unlike, Richou's topic about single-handed backhands, this one's about a much more important and useful shot. Who do you think has the best serve in the game? And in saying so, I guess you have to choose what's most important in a serve. Is it placement (Federer)? Is it the ball coming down from the stratosphere (Karlovic)? Or is it sheer power (Roddick)? Frankly I don't think you could make an argument for anyone other than these three, but if you can, all power to you.
Re: Who has the best serve?
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05 Aug 2009, 00:11by Algo
i haven't seen many matches from Karlovic, so for me it's only between Federer and Roddick, I rather have a perfect placement of the ball than hitting over 240 km/h so my vote goes to Federer
Re: Who has the best serve?
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05 Aug 2009, 01:20by Stefan Edberg
Söderling???? Man he has a great serve!
Re: Who has the best serve?
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05 Aug 2009, 02:08by Richou
Karlovic easy peasy
Re: Who has the best serve?
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05 Aug 2009, 08:49by kyuuji
Roger Federer has a good Serve and we was almost to beat the World Record of Ivo Karlovic (55 aces) in the match against Andy Roddick (5/7 7/6 7/6 3/6 16/14) and Ivo Karlovic made many aces against Lleyton Hewitt but this is one of a big problem with Hewitt to return good services it's very difficult for him.
But I voted Andy Roddick because he did a 249 km/h witch is 152 mph and I never see a service like this before!
Re: Who has the best serve?
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06 Aug 2009, 21:31by Richou
its 155 mph actually
Re: Who has the best serve?
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06 Aug 2009, 23:32by Togtdyalttai
Come on, why's everyone voting for Federer? Karlovic's is much better!
Re: Who has the best serve?
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07 Aug 2009, 00:30by gavbo
Everyone is voting for fed in the best backhand and I dont think thats right either.
Maybe we have some fanboys
Re: Who has the best serve?
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07 Aug 2009, 08:32by btaylor
No, we have people with their OWN opinions...
Re: Who has the best serve?
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07 Aug 2009, 10:06by Richou
lol, its the wrong opinion then Karlovic does have the best serve, by a mile
Re: Who has the best serve?
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07 Aug 2009, 17:12by Santiago92
Tog, tennis is not only strenght. Roger always has a high percentage of 1st serves and his service is the most precise on the tour, so for me he has the best serve.
Re: Who has the best serve?
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07 Aug 2009, 19:17by Togtdyalttai
Santiago92 wrote:Tog, tennis is not only strenght. Roger always has a high percentage of 1st serves and his service is the most precise on the tour, so for me he has the best serve.
The thing is, Karlovic has precision as well. You can't get that many aces with just power. And serving is definitely not only precision.
Re: Who has the best serve?
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08 Aug 2009, 00:37by Santiago92
Yes but... Federer is leading 9-1 the head to head against Karlovic... and Karlovic's serve is more stronger that Federer's and these are the statistics:
Karlovic - Fed
1° serve: 67% - 62%
1° serve won: 85 - 79
2° serve won: 54 - 57
Service games won: 92 - 90
Break points saved: 71 - 67
Fed is closer than Karlovic with his service...
Re: Who has the best serve?
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08 Aug 2009, 04:23by btaylor
This forum is approaching a new level of sheer ignorance when you are told that your OPINION is WRONG...
Re: Who has the best serve?
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08 Aug 2009, 17:20by CC
I don't have an opinion right now, but here is an interesting quote from Andy Roddick following his recent 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) win against Ivo Karlovic in Washington:
"You're at his mercy on his first serve. I was feeling good about my chances on his second serve tonight. There is no way to mimic his serve in practice. You try to deal with it and just put it in play, and that is what I did tonight."
Andy Roddick
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/08/08 ... ashington/