"Tennis is a difficult game to play well and
an even more
challenging game to teach well. Garth Haynes' rock solid fundamentals
combined with his patience and insightful delivery make him the most
effective tennis professional I have worked with in 25 years. If you
give Garth enough time to ingrain his "Big Three" (Balance, Rotation
and Contact Point) into your game you will be rewarded not only with a
better game but also with an understanding of how even the top players
in the world perform their magic.
Thanks Garth!
Tom McCabe
Ex-Tour Tennis Professional &
Varsity College Player
"Garth Haynes worked with our senior men's
team and was
largely responsible for our win at the league championship level. When
we found ourselves in playoff contention I suggested some clinics to
the rest of the team. We had six weeks to playoffs and Garth put
together a six pact program for us, focusing on utilizing our
strengths, not trying to reinvent our strokes. I cannot begin to tell
anyone what it did for us as a team. One of our players came off the
court after the last playoff match lauding Garth's coaching, giving him
sole credit for the win. In case you missed it, the key operative word
here is "seniors". Prior to our six pact workout, I would have been the
first to say "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Garth made a liar
out of me. If he can do this for a bunch of old curmudgeons like us,
imagine what he could do for someone who is truly teachable. Since then
Garth has been working with me on the mechanics of my strokes as well
as strategy and after a few sessions, all I can say is "WOW !...you
gotta try this."
Steve Tutt, FCTC 3.0 SM Team Captain
"Garth Haynes has coached the 5.5 USTA Men’s
team playing out
of Millbrae/San Carlos since 1999. He was primarily responsible for
increasing my rating from 5.0 to 5.5. Having played on 'The Tour',
Garth has a wealth of tennis
knowledge and real world experience to
address player-specific problems. For me, it was work on my forehand
and
volley that allowed me to compete against top players in the Bay Area,
having only competed at the high school level, previously."
David Crawford, Vice President of Finance, Berkana Wireless,
Inc.
"Garth Haynes was my coach for CSM's Women's
Varsity Tennis,
during which he has taken my game to a higher level. In just this past
season my serve, volleys and forehand have tremendously improved. By
focusing on greater balance and improved contact points they have gone
from being weaknesses to becoming effective shots in my game. My
experience of working with Garth convinced me of his keen ability to
see the flaws in the mechanics of your strokes, and what you can then
do to correct them. Since our season, Garth has continued to work on my
game in preparation for playing the 04' tennis season at The University
of Washington on a full athletic scholarship."
Mugette Ahn, 03' State JC Singles Champion and Doubles Finalist.
"Garth Haynes was the College of San Mateo
Women’s tennis team coach the last year I played there.
I had always been a singles player but with his coaching I started to
learn and acknowledge the beauty of doubles. He helped me a lot with my
serve which used to be one of my weaknesses. Both my singles and
doubles game, as a whole, improved a lot thanks to Garth. Mugette and I
had a great season and I think we both owe it to his coaching and
enthusiasm."
Elizabeth Brito, 03' State JC Doubles Finalist, Ojai JC Doubles
Champion.
"When 'Grandmaster' Garth began to revamp my strokes and service
motion, my shoulder pain melted away. Unfortunately, my right elbow had
taken too much damage over the years from 'tennis elbow' to handle even
a more mechanically correct one-handed topspin backhand, so I was
forced to
switch to a two-hander. Although I had dabbled playing tennis in the
past with my left hand and leveraged that experience to produce a
two-handed backhand of sorts during some of my injury rest periods, it
was not very good. Garth provided me with more useful insight than
anyone else I encountered in teaching me how to hit a proper two-handed
backhand, and yet Garth uses a one-hander. After six months of
once-a-week lessons with Garth, I played in the USTA men's league and
my official level bumped up from 4.0 to 4.5, with a new two-handed
backhand!! This occurred during the years that USTA NORCAL was pushing
more players down to make themselves more competitive nationally, as
well. Garth is a great teacher because he's an exceptional observer and
analyst of not only his students' strokes, but also those of modern pro
players. I learned concepts from Garth that I had not read in Tennis
magazine in fifteen years or heard described by anyone else, but upon closer
study of the pros' mechanics, were inarguably accurate. Only recently
on Tennis Channel did I hear a few similar concepts described by John
Evert
of the Evert Academy. Garth's flexible and open-minded, too. He's open
to having his thoughts challenged. Garth is a true 'Grandmaster' of
tennis and tennis instruction.
Joseph C. Rothengast, USTA 4.5 level player (& former
Captain) & 1st Dan (1st Degree Black Belt), World Tae Kwon Do Association