John Yandell: Your Strokes: Paul Goldstein�s Serve

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Before and After: can video analysis alter the technique of a top 100 player?

Working with a player at the world class level is the one of the most challenging and potentially gratifying experiences you can have as coach and student of the game. In this month’s Your Strokes, we are going to take a look at part of the work I had the opportunity to do with men’s tour player Paul Goldstein and his coach Scott McCain.

I’d seen Paul play at Stanford as part of the Dick Gould dynasty and actually been there to watch his team win a national championship. I’d also seen Paul around on the tour and also the challenger circuit when I was working with two of his Stanford national championship teammates, Jeff Salzenstein and Jim Thomas. (More on that in later articles.) Watching the tour results, I’d seen that Paul had made a run up the computer ladder, jumping from the top of the Challenger circuit onto the main tour and reaching the top 60. Having seen a lot of challenger and top 100 tennis first hand, I can tell you that is…