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...

5. июля 2016
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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,...

19. июня 2016
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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...

18. июня 2016
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In my opinion: Headcoach Erik Csarnakovics about recent form of Petra Kvitova…

Petra Kvitova is out of TOP 10 in WTA rankings. There is no question about her making her way back into the TOP 10; I would say even TOP 5. She has what it takes to become world number one. Remember, she was close to achieving it almost five years ago. Petra won Wimbledon twice, since 2011 at the end of the seasons; she was always in TOP 10 with at least 3500 points (not since February 2016). She has all...

31. мая 2016
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Jurikova surprised at EMPIRE Slovak Open 2016, advancing to the second round from qualifying

There was a big surprise at the clay tournament EMPIRE Slovak Open 2016 in Trnava with total prize money of 100 000 USD. WTA No. 621 Lenka Jurikova surprised everyone in the first round after advancing from the qualification, eliminating American Louisa CHirico 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Chirico was the big favourite of the match against Jurikova, as she reached the semi-final of WTA Premier Tournament in Madrid last week, where she lost to another Slovak Cibulkova. On Monday, American player moved...

11. мая 2016
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LOVE 4 TENNIS topic: Organizing of the national tournaments in Slovakia and Czech Republic

Czech and Slovak tennis have many differences, including number of courts, its quality and interest of young people and children, competition, organisational side of tournaments and we could continue naming more and more. I would like to concentrate on the last point mentioned. It is a topic I can talk about, I played tennis in both countries and I have experience I would like to share. I would start by comparing number of tournaments in Czech Republic and Slovakia. During the...

1. мая 2016
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LOVE 4 TENNIS Topic: Parents influence on player and training process

Every parent has smaller or bigger impact on development of a player and training process. Impact can be positive or negative. In most cases parents want to have influence on the development of their child, however they often do big mistakes, which they are not aware of and they slow down the development rather than help it. They often spoil the effort of the coaching staff. In many cases they are the reasons for giving up by the players and disliking...

1. мая 2016
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CSARNAKOVICS Erik, LUKACS Vanda (453 WTA)

Head coach Csarnakovics about Lukacs: She needs to show courage in matches

Vanda Lukacs, twenty three years old member of LOVE 4 TENNIS Academy, coached by Filip Havaj and Erik Csarnakovics, already adapted in the Bratislava based academy. Since joining us, she won her first singles title and third doubles title in Italian Santa Margherita Di Pula in October 2015. Recently she was very close to taking her second singles title, but she lost the final in Hammamet, Tunisia. She was excellently prepared for the tournament after two weeks of intensive training...

31. марта 2016
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Horansky grabs his 7th ITF title after great final match

Filip Horansky, player that spends lot of his practice time in LOVE 4 TENNIS Academy, played great tournament in Antalya, Turkey. At 10K USD Futures event he grabbed the title. According to his own words, he played the best match in the final. Horansky (No. 364 in the ATP rankings) won his seventh singles career title in Antalya, first one in the current season. He smashed fourth seed, Swiss Yann Marti (No. 323 in the ATP rankings) after two sets 6-1,...

31. марта 2016
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LOVE 4 Tennis topics: Former player must keep his ego as a coach under control

When a professional tennis player ends his career, it may seem the best and most logical continuity for him is to become a coach. It is not as easy as it may seem at first glance. Erik Csarnakovics, LOVE 4 Tennis Head Coach, knows himself a lot about it, warns about the difficulties of the job and also has a piece of advice for the starting coaches, former players. What is the most difficult in transition of player to coach? "Working as a tennis coach...

28. марта 2016
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