Fastest speed in ball/racket sports

Indonesia XD player - Tontowi Ahmad

Those who aren’t familiar with badminton often have a delicate “With silken fan I flick the fireflies sailing by” kind of feeling about the sport, unlike tennis in which players repeatedly hit two handed shots with a big racket from the baseline while giving out a loud grunt; badminton players rarely roar when they hit the shuttlecock even when they jump up for a smash however, badminton is actually the fastest recorded ball/racket sport in the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, in terms of shuttlecock speed recorded in an actual match, Fu Hai Feng’s 332 kmh smash at the 2005 Surdiman Cup was the fastest speed ever recorded in any ball/racket sport.......Full Article