Jesse Castillo
Ask multiple people on the Half Moon Bay coastside about playing tennis and it won’t take long before someone points you towards Jesse. A crazy passionate love for the game drives his enthusiasm for introducing new players of all ages to the game, helping players at all ability levels try to continue improving their technical skills, point tactics or match strategies and you’ll also see him out on the courts playing tennis with anyone looking to get some games in.
Jesse is a USPTA tennis professional and has worked with some of the best coaches in the game. He teaches at the HMB HS tennis courts as well as at Player Capital Tennis in Atherton and at Stanford University. He’s also been active in USTA Adult League tennis, playing on and coaching multiple HMB Men’s and Mixed Doubles teams that have competed well in local leagues and advanced to USTA District and Sectional Championship tournaments.
In addition to teaching tennis, Jesse is a genuine tennis gear geek! He’ll be happy to explain the technology and physics of tennis elements (can’t help but draw on that MIT background) in terms that any tennis player can understand, appreciate and apply to their own game and gear selection.
Jesse has also been offering first class restringing of tennis racquets for many years to the coastside tennis community as well as to recreational, nationally ranked junior and even pro players as a member of the team at the Tennis Town & Country pro shop in Palo Alto. Ask about tennis strings and you are sure to learn enough to separate myth and fact to get a string configuration that suits your game the best. He is a member of the Wilson Global Advisory Staff team at the highest Gold level and also has relationships with other major tennis equipment companies.