Nicolás Jarry is showing that his tennis recovery is becoming more concrete. This season he has found his main weapon, service, with which he has begun to rebuild his career and show notable progress.
Last week he reached the semifinals of the Challenger 125 in Salzburg, where he achieved an extraordinary record, reaching 239 kilometers per hour with a service in his duel against the German Peter Heller. The fact that the Austrian city was located at an altitude similar to that of Santiago also had a considerable influence, which favors the scorer.
The record puts him among the most powerful players of all time. Without going further, exceeded 233 kilometers per hour, which he had achieved against the Ecuadorian Iván Endara in a Davis Cup series played at the National Stadium, in 2018. And, furthermore, he beat the record of Fernando González, who reached 236, in a match against Filippo Volandri, in the semifinals of the Masters 1,000 in Rome.
This statistical feat of Jarry puts him in the top 20 of all time and puts him as the second fastest on clay, among other notable milestones. However, for the ATP these are only moral marks, since in relation to services there is a different position.
When consulted by Sporting, Joshua Rey, one of the spokespersons of the international organization affirms that “ATP does not have or recognize service speed statistics.” Likewise, it points out that they do not count this type of statistics either. “ATP doesn’t have anything in our database on serve speeds. No one should say or write about faster service “, aim.
In this context, one of the reasons that has left the agency without competition is that measurement systems They are not homologated between the different categories of tournaments. Although, in the Grand Slams, Masters 1,000 and ATP 500 and 250 the systems tend to be more or less similar, there are variations in the sensitivity of these devices, which prevents the organization from having the necessary certainty to add this statistic.
