Robert Lansdorp

Robert Lansdorp
Born(1938-11-12)November 12, 1938
Semarang, Semarang Residency, Dutch East Indies
DiedSeptember 16, 2024(2024-09-16) (aged 85)
West Carson, California, U.S.
Alma materPepperdine University (attended)
OccupationTennis coach

Robert Herman Lansdorp (November 12, 1938 – September 16, 2024) was a Dutch-American tennis coach known for working with top-ranked players including Tracy Austin, Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport, and Maria Sharapova. Lansdorp was regarded as an expert on groundstrokes, advocating a consistently powerful and flat hitting technique commonly referred to in the tennis world as the "Lansdorp Forehand".[1]

  1. ^ "The Lansdorp Forehand". Tennisplayer.net. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014.