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| Sabine's service motion captured on record serve |
In her first round, against crowd pleaser Ana Ivanovic, Sabine blasted her way to the fastest serve ever recorded on the women's tour. 131mph (210kph)
Former top professional Brad Gilbert once referred to Sabine as "Boom Boom Lisicki" and the name has affectionately stuck.
You can look at the serve at:
This is not the first time however, Lisicki had previously served a 210kph serve at the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, that was back in November 2009. This was not recognised, because IDS, the official statistician of the WTA, was not on site in Bali, and unless data is recorded by them, no records are officially recognized.
You can see that unofficial record serve here...
Venus Williams was another player who was robbed of a record in Tokyo in September 2013 when she struck her fastest serve at 129.9mph (209kph), but even in the case that both of their serves had been officially recorded, at that time Lisicki would still have topped the list.
There are not many players that can outclass Venus or Serena on serve, but this popular German boomer has surpassed them both at least on two occassions. What a phenomenal feat.
"Congratulations Sabine... what a gal!"
The table below is taken from wikipedia and I cannot take responibility for the accuracy, but it is an interesting page to have a look at.
| 1 |  Sabine Lisicki | 210.8 km/h (131.0 mph) | 2014 Stanford Classic[15] |
| 2 |  Venus Williams | 207.6 km/h (129.0 mph) | 2007 US Open |
| 3 | Serena Williams | 207.0 km/h (128.6 mph) | 2013 Australian Open |
| 4 | Julia Görges | 203.0 km/h (126.1 mph) | 2012 French Open |
| 5 |  Brenda Schultz-McCarthy | 202.7 km/h (126.0 mph) | 2007 Indian Wells Masters |
| 6 |  Nadiya Kichenok | 202.0 km/h (125.5 mph) | 2014 Australian Open |
| 7 | Anna-Lena Groenefeld | 201.1 km/h (125.0 mph) | 2009 Indian Wells Masters |
| 8 |  Ana Ivanovic | 201.0 km/h (124.9 mph) | 2007 French Open |
| 9 |  Kristina Mladenovic | 200.0 km/h (124.3 mph) | 2009 French Open |
| 10 | Tatjana Maria | 199.6 km/h (124.0 mph) | 2012 US Open |
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Here's Sabine's twitter reaction
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| Sabine Lisicki reacts on Twitter. |
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