Which is harder, hitting an 100mph baseball pitch or returning an 100mph tennis serve?
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NZA
LOL
while it says 120MPH, many in the comments think it was more like 100MPH
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Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Djokovic or Nadal you could bang on'eem.
They not Goran or some serve onky euro with lanky arms.
Even then you have a better chance returning a serve at high speeds.
than ever...and i mean ever even anything but marveling at the unhittable in baseball.
i have been to numerous batting cages and never made contact with any pitch over seventy miles an hour. shyt fifty mph on medium. I would be lucky to make contact
returning a tennis ball at max speed is child's play compared to hitting a baseball at competitive speed.
Baseball is a god given talent at elite levels.
you are born to throw 90 mph.
or hit a fastball.
you are not going to ramp in baseball. Like you could ramp in any other sport.
You could go out there everyday and take 100mph and never once even comprehend the speed
A tennis ball at 140 is a big neon sign I would bash any point.
Anyone telling you different. I regards to hitting a baseball is a stone cold cap ass liar.
Art Barr
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Oh and amy tennis player can tell you by simple example
Jim courier = one of the best all time strikers of the ball.
In the history of men's tennis.
To the point his mechanics hitting either side were amalgamated, advanced and custom. Just to accommodate a change to tennis from baseball.
Courier was a hof tennis professional.
In regards to baseball.
Courier was just a rabid baseball fan at best. Considering rhe era.
As well as if i remember right.
courier was a reds fan. When the reds were winning pendants and series titles. Plus featured a bullpen. That featured Rob dibble. Who was one of the very few. In the majors in any era who throw gas at 100 plus mph as a reliever.
so courier knew amd was aware of dibble for sure. Yet courier was at best a little league level player.
To general common fan for the era.. when baseball was surely clear above everything else.
In a past forgotten post apocalyptic crack era and time as America's game.
Example : agassi v Courier
1990 us open
Night match
Most powerful rallies that ever aired on television.
Yet neither are hitting a 100 baseball.
Art Barr
*gawd I hated courier.
This match tho.
Courier and Dre was on some titan shyt.
Courier smashed Dre tho.
I was pissed
Jim courier = one of the best all time strikers of the ball.
In the history of men's tennis.
To the point his mechanics hitting either side were amalgamated, advanced and custom. Just to accommodate a change to tennis from baseball.
Courier was a hof tennis professional.
In regards to baseball.
Courier was just a rabid baseball fan at best. Considering rhe era.
As well as if i remember right.
courier was a reds fan. When the reds were winning pendants and series titles. Plus featured a bullpen. That featured Rob dibble. Who was one of the very few. In the majors in any era who throw gas at 100 plus mph as a reliever.
so courier knew amd was aware of dibble for sure. Yet courier was at best a little league level player.
To general common fan for the era.. when baseball was surely clear above everything else.
In a past forgotten post apocalyptic crack era and time as America's game.
Example : agassi v Courier
1990 us open
Night match
Most powerful rallies that ever aired on television.
Yet neither are hitting a 100 baseball.
Art Barr
*gawd I hated courier.
This match tho.
Courier and Dre was on some titan shyt.
Courier smashed Dre tho.
I was pissed
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FIRST OF ALL THERE
WOULD BE ZERO COACHING
IN THIS SCENARIO....
THE OLD MAN HELD HIS HAND
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE DAY.
SECONDLY
ALL OF THE TENNIS BALLS
WERE PURPOSELY PLACED TO
TO HIS FOREHAND SIDE WHICH MAKES
THIS AN ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME.
THE POINT OF THE SERVE
IS COVERING GROUND
AND NOT KNOWING
WHICH DIRECTION THE BALL
IS GOING TO BE PLACED.
IN HIS SCENARIO
THE SERVE IS MUCH EASIER
THAN THE BASEBALL.
dontreadthis
philly.
Richard Glidewell
Superstar
So an aggregate stat non sense stat doesn't actually describe the difficulty and makes it seem like it's a trivial feat.....there's all kinds of stats to prove confirmation bias.......here's one that speaks more directly to the game..........straight from a reliable source.......the well itself......and not a site full of people's opinions
Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP) | Glossary | MLB.com.
No the hell you can't.
.Hitting a 100mph baseball is extremely tough, but hitting a 100mph+ serve is extremely tough as well. Yes, you have larger piece of equipment to make contact with the ball, but you also have LOT more room to cover.
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Nah, you all do realize not all fastballs have to be straight down the middle and could have some movement?
. Even if it doesn't I still say nah.
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
If returning a tennis serve was so much more difficult, you'd have seen the fringe pro tennis players opt for playing in the MLB.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
This.
I already posted jim courier too tho...when courier never had a chance as a pro baseball player.
While thoroughly covered in indepth pr .
of courier enjoying baseball as a junior.
Art Barr
It's not that simple.
It requires completely different mechanics to hit a baseball (along with a bat and raquet being different instruments). The hand-eye coordination and footwork is transferable, but not much else. Besides breaking into the MLB when you have no background is not easy (less likely than all the other four major leagues).
Tennis players don't typically have the build either to make up for a lack of experience.
Conversely, let me throw that statement back at you -
If hitting a baseball was so much more difficult, you'd have seen fringe MLB players opting to become professional tennis players.
Except you actually have to move a greater distance to return a serve. You have to move your body more and you have to account for the same variable of movement of the ball when it bounces.Nah, you all do realize not all fastballs have to be straight down the middle and could have some movement?
Besides, you're swinging the bat the same way everytime on a fastball. When you're returning a tennis serve it can change between needing to use a forehand or backhand, depending on where the ball is dropped in the service box. The average person can swing a raquet or a bat leading with their front hip without much issue, but get them to swing a raquet across their body and they're not going to have the same level of coordination.
It'd be like trying to hit a baseball with a back swing. Do you know how much harder that would be?
The only chance the average person would have any luck at hitting a tennis serve (let alone returning it) is if it's placed to hit with their forehand. If they have to hit with their backhand, it'd basically be damn near impossible.
