Fastest Serve in the World!

**Dan** · Posted 10-11-2011

Check out the fastest serve ever by Japanese wonderkid and future World Champion Asuka Sakai.William Henzell from TTEDGE quotes on his youtube channel that "This serve is no fake. At least 30 witnessed this serve in the hall at the Werner Schlager Academy yesterday!!"

Photo by: WSA-TT.com

How on earth does he do it? Can anyone come close to this? This serve was taken on film in the Werner Schlager Academy

NEW just in --- Slow Mo Version ---

**YosuaYosan** · 11:41 PM

NO WAAAAAAAAY :0
That is purely stunning ! I want to learn that LOL !
Japan's new supah WEPOON !

**nicson123** · Posted 10-11-2011

How would you even return that?!?!?

**Dan** · Posted 10-11-2011

The ITTF President may want to ban this one hehe, not to sure how it would go down in terms of rallies lol

**ttEDGE - William** · Posted 10-12-2011

It's pretty amazing. When you've got 20 professional players standing around shaking their heads then you know it's something out of the ordinary. I've had a few requests for slow-mo of the serve so people can see what is happening, so watch out for this.

**Michal_Z** · Posted 10-12-2011

I dont really understand that..
It looks like he is playing underspin on the serve!
But when you play underspin, the ball doesnt go back to table, its floating higher..! So how on earth managed he leave the second bounce on the table ???
Can someone explain me this???

**Steven** · Posted 10-12-2011

Originally Posted by Michal_Z

I dont really understand that..
It looks like he is playing underspin on the serve!
But when you play underspin, the ball doesnt go back to table, its floating higher..! So how on earth managed he leave the second bounce on the table ???
Can someone explain me this???

It's mostly topspin/sidespin. He's not hitting the ball with his forehand (black side), but with his backhand (red side).

**Justchill** · Posted 10-12-2011

WTF is that...

**benlarcombe** · Posted 10-12-2011

That's ridiculous

**azlan** · Posted 10-12-2011

Holy mackerel!!!! Super serve! I doubt I can serve that fast.

**YosuaYosan** · 12:57 PM

Maybe it is underspin. But theoritecally it is impossible. But the ball when done with an underspin yet fast enough, it will produce a dead ball and it will bounce higher in the first serve. I am confused lol.

But I think it is topside in some way. The ball is first directed more to the middle but the sidespin will give more length to the ball to travel therefore more velocity could be applied.
Or maybe it is pure topspin. If you look closely, he struck the ball with massive flex of his wrist. But I think it is a topside.
He also bounce the first ball very close on his side. Oh he also use his backhand to hit the ball..

Damn this could evolve the game like when Japan invented the inverted rubber and the loop drive simultaneously..

And what the heck is BollForte doing there with a very closed mind like dat :\

**dici** · Posted 10-12-2011

where is the ball ? x.x

this is just way too fast for me

**WiWa** · Posted 10-12-2011

Originally Posted by YosuaYosan

Maybe it is underspin. But theoritecally it is impossible. But the ball when done with an underspin yet fast enough, it will produce a dead ball and it will bounce higher in the first serve. I am confused lol.

But I think it is topside in some way. The ball is first directed more to the middle but the sidespin will give more length to the ball to travel therefore more velocity could be applied.
Or maybe it is pure topspin. If you look closely, he struck the ball with massive flex of his wrist. But I think it is a topside.
He also bounce the first ball very close on his side. Oh he also use his backhand to hit the ball..

Damn this could evolve the game like when Japan invented the inverted rubber and the loop drive simultaneously..

And what the heck is BollForte doing there with a very closed mind like dat :\

Yea he hits the ball on the top, while it is falling down. Incredible timing and accuracy to produce a serve like that I guess xD. But he throws the ball a little towards himself as well it seems.

**UpSideDownCarl** · Posted 10-12-2011

If he is hitting with the red side, and it looks like he is, then the bat face that contacts the ball is facing almost straight down. It is sort of like when someone does a Tomahawk with the backhand side.

There is a point between 27 and 29 seconds where he is rehearsing how he is contacting the ball and he is putting the ball right near the edge on the backhand side of the rubber with the rubber facing almost straight down.

However fast this serve is, I think the top players would see it coming and the flaw with fast serves, if you do not surprise your opponent, they can come back even faster. That being said, I will try this.

**GDP** · Posted 10-12-2011

Looks like he is hitting the ball with the backhand side of blade. There's a slo mo vid on youtube.

Gotta try this tonight.

**GDP** · Posted 10-12-2011

Here's the link to slo mo of this serve:

**Bollforte94** · Posted 10-12-2011

So he hits the ball with the backhand rubber?

**YosuaYosan** · Posted 10-12-2011

Originally Posted by GDP

Here's the link to slo mo of this serve:

Very very nice to observe

Thanks alot for the share

This will be even more clear when Henzell upload the hi speed camera version ! O YEA !

**UpSideDownCarl** · Posted 10-12-2011

The ball is also bouncing so close to the edge on his side and on the far side. Pretty cool how much more easy it is to see what he is actually doing with the slow motion. I had paused and saw he was contacting with the red side but it was not as easy to see the angle he uses on his arm, which is also what you have to do when you do a backhand tomahawk, which is really what this is, but a really fast one.

When I have tried it before it felt really hard to do a backhand tomahawk serve. So this serve cannot be easy.