Paul Herbert Goldstein (born August 4, 1976) is an American tennis coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal men's tennis team.
As a junior, he won the USTA Boys' 16s National Championship in 1992, and the USTA Boys' 18s National Championships in both 1993 and 1994. He then played college tennis at Stanford University, from which he graduated after a career in which he was named an All-American each of the four years he played, and the team won the national championship each year. He won the gold medal in singles at the 1999 Pan American Games. He turned professional in 1998.
The right-hander reached career-high ATP Tour rankings of world No. 58 in singles in April 2006, and world No. 40 in doubles in February 2007. He announced his retirement from professional tennis in 2008. Since 2014, he has been the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal men's tennis team.
Early life Goldstein was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Rockville, Maryland, and is Jewish. He is the son of Clark Goldstein, a former national table tennis champion. He started playing when he was nine.
He won the USTA Boys' 16s National Championship in 1992, and the USTA Boys' 18s National Championships in both 1993 and 1994 (in 1994, defeating Jan-Michael Gambill). He also won the 1994 doubles championship with Scott Humphries.
He is a 1994 graduate of Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where he was a four-time Washington Post First Team All Met selection (1991–1994).
College career Goldstein played college tennis at Stanford University and graduated in 1998 with a degree in human biology. He was an All-American each year, and the team won the national championship each year. In his senior year he was Pac-10 Player of the Year in 1998, after a 33–2 season in which he was team captain. In 2023, Goldstein was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame.
Professional career He had 26 USTA titles through November 2005.Paul Goldstein: Circuit Player of the Week
In January 1999 at the Australian Open he defeated world No. 8 Greg Rusedski. In June at Wimbledon he upset both world No. 33 Jan Siemerink, and No. 17 Félix Mantilla. In August he upset world No. 8 Àlex Corretja of Spain in Washington, D.C. He won the gold medal in singles at the 1999 Pan American Games defeating Cecil Mamiit.
In February 2000 he defeated world No. 17 Pat Rafter of Australia in Delray Beach, Florida.
In the 2005 US Open, Goldstein and Jim Thomas upset defending champions and No. 1 seeds Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in the first round, as well as Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry in the QFs, before losing to eventual champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in the SFs. In the 2006 US Open, Goldstein and Thomas again defeated Knowles and Nestor (this time in the 3rd round).
Goldstein and Jim Thomas lost in the doubles finals of the 2006 SAP Open to 47-year-old John McEnroe and Jonas Björkman. They also were doubles finalists in two other ATP tournaments in 2006 (Indianapolis, won by Andy Roddick and Bobby Reynolds, and Tokyo, won by Ashley Fisher and Tripp Phillips).
In February 2006 he beat world No. 18 Robby Ginepri in three sets, in Las Vegas, and in July he defeated world No. 13 Lleyton Hewitt in two sets in Los Angeles. In the January Australian Open, he beat future champion Novak Djokovic in the first round. Paul was easily defeated in the next round by Tommy Haas.
In January 2007 he defeated world No. 21 Dominik Hrbatý of Slovakia, in Adelaide, Australia. The next month he defeated world No. 45 Julien Benneteau in Las Vegas, 6–1, 6–0. Despite losing in the first round of singles at the Tunica Resorts Challenger in May, he and Donald Young won the doubles final, defeating Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos in three sets.
Tennis exhibitions Goldstein has participated in exhibition events for other tennis players and their charities, including Andy Roddick, Jim Thomas, and the Bryan brothers. On September 27, 2008, he participated in The Bryan Brothers' All-Star Tennis Smash in Thousand Oaks, California, initially playing doubles with Justin Gimblestob, and ending up playing singles with Andre Agassi (losing 7–5).
Post-retirement Goldstein officially retired in February 2008 and began working with a clean energy company in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2004 he married his college sweetheart and partner of nine years, Abbie; it was she who persuaded him to play on during the 2007 season. They live in Menlo Park, California, with their three children, Sadie, Margaret, and Charles.
In 2014, Goldstein became the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal men's tennis team.
Halls of Fame Goldstein was inducted into the ITA Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.
Goldstein was inducted into the North California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 5 (5 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–0)ATP 500 Series (0–1)ATP 250 Series (0–4)Finals by surfaceHard (0–5)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (0–2)Indoors (0–3)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Brighton, United KingdomInternational SeriesHard Jim Thomas Michael Hill Jeff Tarango3–6, 5–7Loss0–2San Jose, United StatesInternational SeriesHard Robert Kendrick Lee Hyung-Taik Vladimir Voltchkov5–7, 6–4, 3–6Loss0–3San Jose, United StatesInternational SeriesHard Jim Thomas Jonas Björkman John McEnroe6–7(2–7), 6–4, [7–10]Loss0–4Indianapolis, United StatesInternational SeriesHard Jim Thomas Bobby Reynolds Andy Roddick4–6, 4–6Loss0–5Tokyo, JapanChampionship SeriesHard Jim Thomas Ashley Fisher Tripp Phillips2–6, 5–7
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 20 (13–7) LegendATP Challenger (12–6)ITF Futures (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (12–7)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Lexington, United StatesChallengerHard Lee Hyung-Taik6–1, 6–4Loss1–1San Diego, United StatesChallengerHard Ville Liukko5–7, 6–7Win2–1Waikoloa, United StatesChallengerHard André Sá7–5, 6–2Win3–1Lexington, United StatesChallengerHard Jack Brasington1–6, 6–2, 6–3Win4–1USA F27, MalibuFuturesHard Matías Boeker6–3, 6–0Loss4–2Lexington, United StatesChallengerHard Scott Draper6–4, 4–6, 4–6Win5–2Tyler, United StatesChallengerHard Mardy Fish6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–3Loss5–3USA F7, PensacolaFuturesHard Nicolás Todero6–7(2–7), 4–6Win6–3Tallahassee, United StatesChallengerHard Alex Kim2–6, 6–2, 4–0 ret.Loss6–4Waco, United StatesChallengerHard Giovanni Lapentti4–6, 3–6Win7–4Austin, United StatesChallengerHard Robert Kendrick6–3, 6–3Win8–4Champaign-Urbana, United StatesChallengerHard Brian Vahaly6–3, 6–1Win9–4Covington, United StatesChallengerHard André Sá6–2, 6–0Win10–4Waikoloa, United StatesChallengerHard Cecil Mamiit6–2, 6–2Loss10–5Busan, South KoreaChallengerHard Danai Udomchoke6–7(6–8), 2–6Loss10–6Yuba City, United StatesChallengerHard Cecil Mamiit4–6, 4–6Win11–6Boston, United StatesChallengerHard Frank Dancevic5–7, 7–5, 6–3Win12–6Sacramento, United StatesChallengerHard Rajeev Ram7–6(7–5), 4–6, 7–5 Loss12–7Busan, South KoreaChallengerHard Danai Udomchoke2–6, 0–6Win13–7Forest Hills, United StatesChallengerClay Adrián Garcíawalkover
Doubles: 20 (12–8) LegendATP Challenger (12–7)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (10–7)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Las Vegas, United StatesChallengerHard Jim Thomas David Di Lucia Michael Sell4–6, 4–6Loss0–2Lexington, United StatesChallengerHard Jim Thomas Ben Ellwood Lleyton Hewitt7–5, 3–6, 2–6Win1–2San Diego, United StatesChallengerHard Adam Peterson Michael Hill Scott Humphries6–2, 7–5Win2–2Laguna Hills, United StatesChallengerHard Brian Macphie Pablo Albano Daniel Orsanic3–6, 6–4, 7–5Loss2–3Austin, United StatesChallengerHard Adam Peterson Marcos Ondruska Wesley Whitehouse5–7, 6–4, 2–6Win3–3Urbana, United StatesChallengerHard Jim Thomas Bob Bryan Mike Bryan6–7, 7–6, 7–6Win4–3Waikoloa, United StatesChallengerHard Jim Thomas Mike Bryan Paradorn Srichaphan3–6, 6–4, 6–3Win5–3Paget, BermudaChallengerClay Andy Roddick Thomas Shimada Grant Stafford4–6, 6–3, 6–4Loss5–4Calabasas, United StatesChallengerHard Justin Gimelstob Paul Rosner Glenn Weiner2–6, 6–4, 6–7(4–7)Win6–4Binghamton, United StatesChallengerHard Scott Humphries Amir Hadad Robert Kendrick4–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–5Loss6–5USA F7, PensacolaFuturesHard Kiantki Thomas Huntley Montgomery Tripp Phillips7–6(8–6), 4–6, 5–7Loss6–6Birmingham, United StatesChallengerClay Robert Kendrick Josh Goffi Travis Parrott4–6, 6–2, 2–6Loss6–7Atlantic City, United StatesChallengerHard Brandon Coupe Tripp Phillips Ryan Sachire5–7, 3–6Win7–7San Antonio, United StatesChallengerHard Jeff Morrison Tomáš Cakl Louis Vosloo6–3, 6–2Loss7–8Fresno, United StatesChallengerHard Jeff Morrison Travis Parrott Diego Ayala5–7, 6–4, 3–6Win8–8Covington, United StatesChallengerHard K.J. Hippensteel Hugo Armando Nicolás Lapentti6–3, 6–3Win9–8College Station, United StatesChallengerHard Brian Vahaly André Sá Bruno Soares7–5, 2–6, 6–4Win10–8Busan, South KoreaChallengerHard Rajeev Ram Justin Gimelstob Wesley MoodiewalkoverWin11–8Sacramento, United StatesChallengerHard Jeff Morrison Amer Delić Brian Wilson6–1, 6–3Win12–8Tunica Resorts, United StatesChallengerClay Donald Young Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss1994US OpenHard Scott Humphries Ben Ellwood Nicolás Lapentti0–6, 2–6
Performance timelines
Singles Tournament199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAQ1AAAA3R1R2RQ3Q1Q1Q32R1R0 / 54–5French OpenAAAAAAQ12R1RAQ1Q1A1RA0 / 31–3WimbledonAAAAAA3R3RAAQ1Q21R1RA0 / 44–4US Open1R1RAQ1Q32R2R1RQ2Q2Q22RQ22R1R0 / 84–8Win–loss0–10–10–00–00–01–15–33–41–20–00–01–10–12–40–20 / 2013–20ATP World Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsAAAAAAQ21RQ1Q2AA2R2R2R0 / 43–4MiamiAQ1AAAA1R2R1RAAAQ12R2R0 / 53–5CanadaAAAAAAAAAAAAA1RQ20 / 10–1CincinnatiAAAAAA2RAQ1AAQ1A1RA0 / 21–2Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–01–21–20–10–00–00–01–12–42–20 / 127–12
Doubles Tournament19941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAAAAA1R1RAAA1RA1R0 / 40–4French OpenAAAAA2R1R1RAAAAAA0 / 31–3WimbledonAAAAA1R2RAAAQ1Q21RA0 / 31–3US Open1RAQ2A1R1R2R1RAAASFQF1R0 / 88–8Win–loss0–10–00–00–00–11–32–40–30–00–00–04–23–20–20 / 1810–18ATP World Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsAAAAA1RQF1RAAAA2RA0 / 43–4MiamiAAAAA1R2R1RAAAAA2R0 / 42–4CincinnatiAAAAAQ2AAAAAA2RA0 / 11–1Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–23–20–20–00–00–00–02–21–10 / 96–9
See also List of select Jewish tennis players
References
External links
Goldstein World Ranking History Jewish Virtual Library bio Jews in Sports bio "Paul Goldstein: Circuit Player of the Week", 11/9/05 Jim Thomas (Goldstein's doubles partner) official website Goldstein participating in 2008 tennis exhibition event