Canadian Milos Raonic, who hit 32 aces to defeat John Millman and reach the third round of Wimbledon, says the game’s bigger players are starting to evolve—and serves are going to continue getting harder and harder.
Going into the tournament, Raonic has 6,275 aces for the season. The Canadian has served as high as 155 mph and says it's going upwards.
“I think it probably will be humanly possible," said Raonic. "The way you're just going to have to see and look at it is physics-wise, you can only hit a ball from a certain angle so hard before it's not going to drop in time.
“To serve hard, it has to be flat. So either you're going to have a guy that's extremely strong hitting from a higher point of contact, or you're not going to be able to do it with much spin. But there will be some progress and some kind of development. But maybe before the margins, the steps were higher, but now the margin is just getting smaller because physics and gravity can only allow for so much.”
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