Que Ben Shelton is one of the best punches on the circuit It’s no secret. However, the young tennis player from Florida continues to surprise fans of the king of racket sports with his increasingly powerful serves. This year he has already performed several services that have left even his own rivals speechless, but The one he did at Wimbledon against Lloyd Harris takes the cake, or so it seemed.
If the numbers on the scoreboard had been true, this would have been the ninth fastest serve in history, It really would have been the fifth, since there are four of them that are not recognized by the ATP. S�lo le superan Andy Roddick (249,4 km/h)Milos Raonic (249,9km/h)Ivo Karlovic (251 km/h) y John Isner (253 km/h), which takes first place.
The data shows that Sam Groth sac� m�s r�pido (263,4 km/h) during a Challenger dispute, but As it is a minor tournament, the data is not exact. and there are doubts about it. As for Wimbledon, The current record is still held by Taylor Dent, after the momentary slip in the tournament, with her serve at 238 km/h in 2010.
Far from the best servers
Despite these data, the 21-year-old tennis player has some service numbers that make him be far from the most regular punchers. In fact, the leader in serving statistics is the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, while Shelton occupies seventh position.
His percentage of first serves is 66.8%, being able to win 86.7% of the games where he serves. However, it is the third player with the highest number of double faults per game with 3.9.
Some inconsistency in the serve is normal in younger tennis players, but a more than possible maturity in Ben’s game can bring with it a serve that is practically unapproachable for the majority of tennis players on the circuit.
