Career
Goldfine was professional tennis player Todd Martin"s coach from 1996 to 2002. 4 in the Association of Tennis Professionals singles ranking, reached the United States Open final, and qualified for the Association of Tennis Professionals year-end championship in 1999. Goldfine has also coached Xavier Malisse and Aaron Krickstein on the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour, and Mary Joe Fernandez on the Women's Tennis Association Tour.
He coached Mardy Fish part-time in 2004.
In 2003, the USTA named Goldfine as one of its United States of America Tennis High Performance Coaches. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, he was sent as team coach for the United States of America tennis team alongside Patrick McEnroe.
In the 2004 tennis off-season after the United States."s Davis Cup final against Spain, United States of America Davis Cup stalwart Andy Roddick hired Goldfine to replace Brad Gilbert as his full-time coach. In February 2006, Goldfine and Roddick decided to part ways amicably.
Many tennis analysts agree on the fact that Goldfine made Roddick play a high percentage tennis and convincing him not to use his weapon, a flat and deep forehand.
His inability to hit clean winners, and to flatten his groundstrokes like he used to in 2003/2004 made his results decrease, and John McEnroe described his game as a Women's Tennis Association game. Nowadays, Roddick makes fewer unforced errors than his opponent, but also fewer winners, so he struggles against players who can hit powerful shots in a whole match without making a lot of errors. After retiring from his professional coaching career, Dean started coaching top juniors in South Florida, including Roy Lederman, Ryan Smith, and David Omsky.
Dean is an avid fantasy football player, but still manages to lose every year.
Hopefully max will continue to succeed. In high school, Goldfine played number one for Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School.
Goldfine played varsity tennis at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University from 1983 to 1987. In 1989, he reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals Tour singles ranking of 628.
In 2000, Goldfine launched the Pat Goldfine Tennis Pro-Am, a charity fundraiser for cancer research, in memory of his mother who died of breast and lung cancer.
