The ball travels at an average speed of 70 to 85 mph on groundstrokes. On serve, the average speed jumps to 95 to 130 mph. Outfielders who can cover large areas while batting down balls are often used in baseball when there is a need for a lot of hits.
A player who can hit a ball very hard is called a "hitter". A player who can field and throw well is known as a "double-play" hitter. The term "hit man" is used to describe a player who gets many bases on balls (BAC).
The typical batter takes about 3 minutes to hit one ball. So, it takes him or her about 9 minutes to get through an entire game. From the time the pitcher releases the ball to the time he receives it back after throwing it is called the "time between pitches" (TBPP).
During a game, a batter will have 20 or more plate appearances. In addition to hitting the ball, the catcher also plays a role in determining how many times each batter gets the chance to hit second. If the catcher wants the batter to get a good look at some pitching equipment such as bats or balls, he will move the batter around the diamond using different batting positions.
Tennis balls are fast (on average faster than all other balls except golf balls), and tennis serves have been recorded at speeds of up to 163 mph. This is faster than any car on the road today, except for race cars and trucks used by drivers who know how to handle them safely.
The fastest recorded serve was hit by American Andre Agassi with a speed of 163 mph. He released the ball at about 100 miles per hour. The ball landed in the stands near where he was sitting and some people said they heard it hit someone's chest button down shirt. He admitted later that he knew what had happened but didn't care. His wife called the moment "the thrill of my life."
In general, women's serves tend to be slower (about 120-130 mph) than men's (140-160 mph). This is because women have more time between points while men need to keep serving and returning quickly if they want to win games.
However, men's singles players often have faster serves than women's because they need to keep moving if they want to stay in the point. They will often take several deep breaths before hitting their next serve so they can control its speed better. Women usually just squeeze the ball gently before throwing it.
100 km/h The tennis ball would reach a terminal velocity of roughly 100 km/hr due to air resistance. It would then stay at that speed until it hit something.
The majority of volleys at the kitchen line are between 30 and 40 mph. The response time in the non-volley zone would be about.24 seconds. Other volleys (not in the non-volley zone) would most likely be in the 25–30 MPH range, with the quickest balls likely exceeding the 40 MPH limit. A typical rally will last around 2 minutes, during which time the players will typically hit about 20 balls.
As far as hitting speed goes, it's really dependent on how much power you can produce and how quickly you can react to the ball after it's been served. Even though rallies last only two minutes, there is still a lot of room for skill development. You can learn to control the shot better or improve your return skills if you so desire.
In general, people can swing hard enough to hit the ball pretty well if they put their mind to it. There are some very strong hitters out there who say they don't even feel like they're hitting the ball that hard; instead, they figure that all the energy they're using to swing so hard must be turning into force with which to push the ball away from them. That makes sense to me.
Then again, I know some people who can barely lift a racket to smash a ball, yet they claim to have no problem hitting 90-mph pitches off the ground. So maybe mental strength comes into play too!
Due to the small weight of the ball and air resistance, table tennis ball speeds can reach 60-70 mph at its peak, but it has a higher frequency of hits in rallies due to the closer proximity of the players. Table tennis averaged 2.00 hits per second in one match, whereas badminton averaged 1.72 hits per second. Baseball struck at 3.93 hits per second and basketball at 4.44 hits per second.
The fastest human shot recorded on video was 145 miles per hour, set by Chen Jingxuan of China in October 2001. The average speed of a commercial bus is about 40 miles per hour, so hitting a ping-pong ball as fast as Chen did requires being almost ready to throw it.
The highest official ball speed record belongs to Yuki Miyamoto of Japan who sent a ball up into the atmosphere during testing for NASA's TLX spacecraft experiment on April 23, 1995. It reached 73.2 miles per hour before impacting and being recovered from Pacific Ocean waters off Hawaii. That's more than twice the speed of an ordinary table tennis ball.
According to Chen, no human has ever thrown a ping-pong ball faster than 150 miles per hour. He also said that no one had ever attempted it before him. In fact, there are only two records available for human-thrown balls: one old Japanese record and one new Chinese record set by Chen.
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