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A tennis ball launched at 230 km/h against your wrist isn’t a pleasant experience. Just ask Ben Shelton, who bore the brunt of Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard’s monster serve at last year’s Swiss Indoor finals in Basel.

But Shelton, who kicked off his Australian Open campaign against fellow countryman Brandon Nakashima on Tuesday, could at least be thankful he wasn’t facing Sam Groth.

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard hits America’s Ben Shelton with a booming serve. Credit: Tennis TV

In 2012, the Australian launched the fastest serve in recorded history during the Busan Open: a bomb clocked at 263.4 km/h.

But how do the serves of Perricard and Groth compare with the speeds of other sporting projectiles? Fast as it was, Groth’s record-breaking tennis shot pales when measured against another racquet sport.

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