Advanced Tennis

This DVD features coach Dick Gould with players Eric McKean and Jon Wong. The program breaks down all the essential skills necessary to play the game at the elite level. Among the topics covered are: warming up, forehand, backhand, serving, the serve return, net play, preparing to play, ball feeding drills, practicing the serve, serve return and volley, practice situations and playing strategies. This program is highly recommended for advanced players. About the coach: Few coaches in the history of any sport have been able to reach the level of success that Dick Gould has achieved at Stanford. After coaching for 38 years and winning 17 national titles, Coach Gould retired at the end of the 2003-04 season and assumed the position of Director of Tennis. Coach Gould was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Coach of the Decade in the 1980s and again in the 1990s. He retired in January, 2018, completing a Stanford tennis career as player, coach, and director of tennis that spanned 57 years.