Posted on February 07, 2004 tennis-x.com Talk about opening things up, on just his second his second serve of the match Andy Roddick smacked a record-breaking 150-mph serve, but it was called out. However, the American superstar playing in the second rubber of a first round Davis Cup tie against Austria's Stefan Koubek, would not be denied a new record Friday night. In the eighth and final game of the first set, Roddick finally connected for a 150-mph that was called good and not too surprisingly, was unreturned by Koubek. In doing so, Roddick eclipsed the prior world's serve speed best which he shared with Britain's Greg Rusesdski at 149-mph. "The first couple of games, I glanced at the radar. That's sort of a gauge for me," said Roddick, the first player to ever reach the 150-mph mark. "When I opened up with a buck-fifty, I thought, 'That's out of the ordinary." Added Roddick, who defeated Koubek 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, in just 1-hour, 31-minutes to give the US at 2-0 lead over Austria, 声t the end of the day, the thing that matters is that I didn急 get broken. And that旧 the one that I歓l take anyday. Here's a look at the fastest individual serves recorded on the ATP since 1991: PLAYER MPH KMH TOURNAMENT Andy Roddick (USA) 150 241.4 2004 Davis Cup First Round Greg Rusedski (GBR) 149 239.7 1998 Queens Taylor Dent (USA) 144 232 2001 Wimbledon Mark Philippoussis (AUS) 142.3 229 1997 Dusseldorf Julian Alonso (ESP) 140 225 1997 Long Island Gilles Elseneer (BEL) 140 225 2003 Basel Joachim Johansson (SWE) 140 225 2004 Australian Open --

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