Dimitrij Ovtcharov Hits 122kph Ball!

[TableTennisDaily]

Check out this latest video measuring the speed of the table tennis ball! Olympic bronze silver medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov hits the ball at a staggering 122kph! Can you hit faster?

 

[Arlen]

What's the average speed of a regular smash? It's hard to find this impressive when we don't really know how fast we usually hit the ball

 

[Steven]

What's the average speed of a regular smash? It's hard to find this impressive when we don't really know how fast we usually hit the ball

122km/h is very fast. I don't know if there's a current record since I couldn't find it on the internet, but I think average players hit somewhere between 80 and 110.

 

[Alborz]

I think Zhang Jike hit a ball against Joo Sehyuk in OG with 150 - 160 KPH speed. He smashed the ball out of the playing space and ball landed 20 meters away from the table! Still 122 KPH is pretty fast.

 

[TT Guru]

The official fastest smash was set by New Zealander Lark Brandt, see the article below, which contains a link to the original ITTF article from 2003 during the NZ Open/GJC.

http://www.jayandwanda.com/tt/speed.html

This is the only smash competition I've known to be acknowledged by a national & international source. Make your own ideas about this, but if they were the same as Dimitrij Ovtcharov's set up, then Ovtcharov is smashing harder.

Lark Brandt - 112.50km/ph
Dimitrij Ovtcharov - 122.00km/ph

 

[Tinykin]

I can think of so many variables that make the comparison weak. But the best measurements usually come out at about 65-70mph as the very highest. So Dimitri's shot shot is about right for a pro.
Of course in a match players very rarely approach that speed as they are mostly driving and looping. The ball therefore curves through the air slowing the time between ball hitting racket then table. the straight smash will have a shorter time thus higher speed.

 

[Steven]

Bump.

I just found this.. It appears that at every match of the Bundesliga, Borussia Düsseldorf lets one of the spectators measure the speed of his shots. There's also a list including top players:

BESTENLISTE PROFIS UND BORUSSIA MITARBEITER

PLATZ	VORNAME	NAME	VEREIN	GESCHWINDIGKEIT	PROFI/MITARBEITER
1.	Bastian	Steger	1. FC Saarbrücken	114 km/h	Profi
1.	Dimitrij	Ovtcharov	Fakel Orenburg	114 km/h	Profi
3.	Konstantin	Kindt	Borussia Düsseldorf	108 km/h	Mitarbeiter
4.	Danny	Heister	Borussia Düsseldorf	101 km/h	Profi
5.	Patrick	Baum	Borussia Düsseldorf	100 km/h	Profi
6.	Matthias	Ernst	Borussia Düsseldorf	98 km/h	Mitarbeiter
6.	Christian	Süß	Borussia Düsseldorf	98 km/h	Profi
8.	Wladimir	Klitschko	--	95 km/h	Box-Weltmeister
9.	Jörgen	Persson	Halmstad BTK	92 km/h	Profi
10.	Carsten	Unt	Borussia Düsseldorf	91 km/h	Mitarbeiter
11.	Alex	Schilling	Borussia Düsseldorf	88 km/h	Mitarbeiter
12.	Danilo	Enz	Borussia Düsseldorf	87 km/h	Mitarbeiter
13.	Marcel	Kessel	Borussia Düsseldorf	85 km/h	Mitarbeiter
14.	Jo	Pörsch	Borussia Düsseldorf	82 km/h	Mitarbeiter
15.	Max	Buck	Borussia Düsseldorf	81 km/h	Mitarbeiter
16.	Sebastian	Natusch	Borussia Düsseldorf	72 km/h	Mitarbeiter
17.	Yvonne	Wendeler	Borussia Düsseldorf	66 km/h	Mitarbeiter
18.	Birgit	Breitkreutz	Borussia Düsseldorf	48 km/h	Mitarbeiter

Source: http://www.borussia-duesseldorf.com/deutsch/fans/contest.html