{"id":218024,"date":"2025-10-16T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:28:10","slug":"jannik-sinner-picks-the-player-he-thinks-has-the-best-serve-of-all-time-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218024\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner picks the player he thinks has the best serve of all time in tennis\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jannik Sinner has faced many big servers on the ATP Tour on his rise to become one of the best two players in the world.<\/p>\n

Sinner is a four-time Grand Slam champion<\/a>, and has won a total of 21 ATP<\/a> titles in his young career already.<\/p>\n

However, he was recently beaten in the US Open<\/a> final by Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, where Sinner was told his serve was not good enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, just over a month after that final, Sinner<\/a> has named the player who he believes has the best serve of all time.<\/p>\n

\"JohnPhoto by Al Bello\/Getty ImagesJannik Sinner builds his perfect player and names who he thinks has the best serve of all time<\/p>\n

Sinner is currently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the Six Kings Slam<\/a> exhibition, where he won the title last year.<\/p>\n

After he beat Alcaraz in the final, Sinner took home $6million<\/a>, which is the biggest amount of prize money in tennis history.<\/p>\n

As he looks to do it all over again, the Italian made a positive start to his title defence, with Sinner comfortably beating Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> in his opening match.<\/p>\n

Alongside his on-court activities, Sinner has also spoken to media at the Six Kings Slam including Wivo Productions, who asked him to build his perfect player.<\/p>\n

Sinner named all of the big three in various different categories, as well as listing rival Alcaraz for his forehand and tennis IQ.<\/p>\n

There was only one player who Sinner named that was not one of the big three or Alcaraz, and that was John Isner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinner picked Isner as the serve he would choose for his best player, and later on named the American again when asked for the shot he would want for himself.<\/p>\n

Isner, who is 6\u201910\u201d (2.08m) in height, reached a career-high ranking of world number eight and hit a record 14,470 aces in his career before he retired in 2023.<\/p>\n

Tennis shotPlayer Jannik Sinner choseServeJohn IsnerForehandCarlos AlcarazBackhandNovak DjokovicVolleyRoger FedererMentalityRafael NadalIQ\/Shot SelectionRoger Federer\/Carlos AlcarazSpeed\/FootworkNovak DjokovicShot Sinner would wantJohn Isner\u2019s ServeWhat happened when Jannik Sinner faced John Isner\u2019s serve?<\/p>\n

Not only has Sinner seen the effectiveness of Isner\u2019s serve on television, but he has also faced the American three times in his career.<\/p>\n

All three of those meetings came on quicker surfaces, where the serve is more effective, but Sinner was able to beat Isner in two of those meetings.<\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s return was particularly effective when they met at the Davis Cup<\/a> Finals in 2021, as he won over half of the points against Isner\u2019s serve and was able to break him five times.<\/p>\n

TournamentSurfaceResultJannik Sinner\u2019s Return Points Won %John Isner\u2019s AcesCincinnati Open 2021Outdoor HardIsner beat Sinner, 5-7 7-6(4) 6-431%12Davis Cup Finals 2021Indoor HardSinner beat Isner, 6-2 6-057%7Wimbledon 2022GrassSinner beat Isner, 6-4 7-6(4) 6-335%24<\/p>\n

After beating Tsitsipas<\/a> at the Six Kings Slam, Sinner will now play another person on his list in 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This will be the first time that they have played one another since Wimbledon<\/a>, where Sinner comfortably beat Djokovic<\/a> en route to winning the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Jannik Sinner has faced many big servers on the ATP Tour on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[753,64,63,754,24502,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-218024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-john-isner","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}