Tom Gullikson: Timeless fundamentals to improve your game
About this episode
Tom Gullikson is our guest for the sixteenth episode of Baseline Intelligence. Tom reached a career high of 34 in singles and got as high as 4 in the world in doubles on the ATP tour. He reached the doubles final of Wimbledon in 1983, and then went on to coach the US Olympic team, the US Davis Cup team, and was one of the founding coaches of the USTA Player development team.
We talk:
1:28 How grass courts differ from hard courts
5:29 Timeless tactics at Wimbledon
7:11 How to hold serve more often
8:16 How to break serve more often
10:31 What we can learn from Nadal
14:49 Overcoming mental hurdles
22:38 What Dr. Jim Loehr taught him
25:04 Coaching the US Davis Cup team
30:13 His best doubles advice
31:10 His best singles advice
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