Kalenichenko wins qualification match in Trnava and doubles title in Piestany in the same day

LOVE 4 TENNIS player Danylo Kalenichenko has had great weekend. In one day he played at two tournaments. On Saturday, August 6, he won the singles qualifying match at STRABAG Challenger Open 2016 and immediately after he moved to Piestany to win the Futures doubles title. Kalenichenko made it to the doubles final in Piestany together with David Pichler from Austria. They played fourth tournament together, won their third title. For Kalenichenko, it is his sixth title this year and ninth...

Uladzimir Ignatik takes third ITF title this season

LOVE 4 TENNIS Academy member Uladzimir Ignatik (26) is going through very successful period of his career. Recently he was finalist at ADVANTAGE CARS PRAGUE OPEN 2016 by ZENOVA Challenger in Prague, now he successfully defended Futures title in Piestany. Belarussian Uladzimir Ignatik confirmed his status of number one seed and won the singles ITF FUTURES tournament in HSC Piestany club. It was 10 000 USD clay tournament. Ignatik defeated Czech Pavel Nejedly after 50 minutes, 6-0, 6-1. Ignatik did not...

Great Ignatik and Marchenko were in the finals in Prague and Segovia

Two members of LOVE 4 Tennis had a great week. Uladzimir Ignatik (26) have made the final at ADVANTAGE CARS PRAGUE OPEN 2016 by ZENOVA Challenger in Prague, whilst Illya Marchenko (28) achieved the same result at Open Castilla y Leon Villa de El Espinar Challenger in Segovia, Spain. Uladzimir Ignatik, coached by Jan Stancik, has played fantastic final in rainy Prague together with his South American opponent Santiago Giraldo. Columbian won the match only after having the edge in the...

Kalenichenko amongst top four in singles, wins doubles in Trnava

Number of our LOVE 4 TENNIS Academy members played in Trnava at ITF EMPIRE Futures Trnava 2016. Samuel Hodor, Jakub Behun and Isa Mammetgulyyev were in the qualifying, Danylo Kalenichenko reached semi-final and won the doubles! Despite Hodor and Mammetgulyyev were both eliminated in the final qualifying round, both entered the main draw as lucky loosers. Hodor lost against Czech Dominik Suc (4-6, 3-6) and Isa played difficult match against his colleague from the academy Danylo Kalenichenko. Isa was winning 3-0...

Marchenko with first challenger singles title this year

Week 29 was exceptional for LOVE 4 Tennis Academy. Illya Marchenko coached by Tibor Toth dominated at Italian Challenger in Recanati. Ukrainian tennis player won his first singles title this season, overall his fifth. Marchenko played difficult Davis Cup matches against Austria for Ukrainian national team before going to Austria. Against Dennis Novak, he won in four sets, against Jurgen Melzer, Marchenko lost after dramatic five setter.  "Ilya arrived directly from Davis Cup, he was tired because he played two...

Kalenichenko takes fourth doubles title in 2016, overall his eighth

Danylo Kalenichenko (22) was the most successful LOVE 4 Tennis Academy player in week 28 together with Czech David Pichler, they won the Futures doubles at Brno Open. Kalenichenko added fourth title this year. In January he won together with German Denis Kapric in Kaarste, in March together with Marat Deviatiar he lifted the trophy in Baku and pairing David Pichler won third title in June in Arada, Romania. "This was our third tournament we played together with David. We played...

Ignatik takes second 2016 ITF title in Czech Republic, overall his 16th

LOVE 4 Tennis Academy member Uladzimir Ignatik, coached by Jan Stancik, has made another successful result this year, winning the ITF tournament in Usti nad Orlici in Czech Republic, dropping only a set. Belarussian tennis player has won his 14th singles ITF title, second this year. He receives 18 points into the ATP ranking. "Number two seed Belarussian Ignatik takes the title from the ITF tournament in Usti Nad Orlici in Czech Republic. Together with prize money of 1440 USD, he...

Michal Fasung, L4T club team captain: We deserved the promotion to Extraleague

LOVE 4 Tennis club is returning back to the Slovakian Extraleague team’s competition after a year. It was not an easy mission to win promotion, last match in June was deciding the fortune. "We were uncertain how it will turn out, because number of our team members play in foreign leagues or at 10K tournaments. We worked hard to build a solid team," said Michal Fasung, team captain about building the team throughout the year. TK LOVE 4 Tennis lost in...

Lenka Jurikova from LOVE 4 TENNIS wins seventh ITF title!

LOVE 4 TENNIS member Lenka Jurikova won her first singles ITF title this season and her overall seventh career title in Prerov, Czech Republic. Lenka reached the 2nd Round at EMPIRE Slovak Open 2016, making her way from the qualies, showing signs of good form a month ago. Now she proved it was no coincidence. At ITF ZUBR CUP in Prerov, Czech Republic she beat all opponents to win the title. Coached by Peter Jurik and Michal Milko, Lenka beat Ukrainian...

The talented player Viktoria Morvayova is training in the LOVE 4 TENNIS Academy

None of the combined ITF ranking players from Slovakia is younger or higher ranked than the 15-year-old Slovak player Viktoria Morvayova. Currently, she is No. 154. Junior player who is taking the advantage of training in the academy, and according to her main coach Erik Csarnakovics, she can benefit from the team spirit of L4T Academy. For the first time, Csarnakovics met her in April 2016 at the junior tournament  in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. "I went there with the member of the academy,...