Our team consists of
  • tennis coaches.
  • managers.
  • physiotherapist.
  • fitness coaches.
  • masseurs.

Erik Csarnakovics is the head coach of Love4Tennis Academy. Ján Stančík is responsible for men players, Peter Jurík with Alexander Somogyi is responsible for women, Brano Sekac for junior players, and Miroslav Polák with Michal Fašung are in charge of children. Five skillful assistants are also the members of the team. Fitness training is taken care of by Pavel Šmela. The relating services are provided by Róbert Caro (massage), Ivana Hatalová (physiotherapist), Emilio Pacini (stretching), and Jakub Steinhauser (yoga). Adriana Kaplánová takes care of the players’ mental state. Everything is coordinated by our managers, Gabriela Lacková and Matej Pytlík.


Our Team


COACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-present
Love 4 Tennis Academy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Founder, Headcoach
The currently biggest private tennis academy in Slovakia founded in 2008. During its existance many top ATP and WTA players have been either grown from the academy or spent substantial time with us as members. Few top names: Filip Polášek, Lukáš Lacko, Norbert Gomboš, Kristina Kučová, Uladzimir Ignatik, Filip Horanský or Miroslav Mečír Jr.

Personal coach of:

2019 – Lukas Lacko – A Slovak player who reached his highest ATP ranking of 44 in…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-present
Love 4 Tennis Academy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Director, Main Coach – men

In academy was personal coach of:

Illya Marchenko – ATP 49
Alexandra Cadantu – WTA 59
Filip Polasek – ATP 20 doubles
Norbert Gombos – ATP 103
Uladzimir Ignatik – ATP 137
Chantal Skamlova – WTA 218
Adrian Partl – ATP 393
Karin Morgošová – WTA 351
Danylo Kalenichenko – ATP 480
Alexey Aleschev – ITF 42
Barbora Matusova – ITF 82
Tim Srkala – ITF 116
Isa Mammetgulyyev – ATP 1115
Filip Vittek – ATP 1297 (Slovak champion under 18)
Jakub Behúň –…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2012-present
Love 4 Tennis Academy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Main Coach, Women

In the academy personal coach of:
Kristína Kučová – WTA 71
Karin Morgošová – WTA 351
Tina Tehrani – WTA 848
Dominika Sujová – ITF 132

Personal Coach of:
2000 – Linda Smoleňáková – ITF 28, WTA 487
2001-2006 – Zuzana Kučová – WTA 101
2000-present – Lenka Juríková – WTA 196
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
1998-2004 – Member of extraleage team of TK Slovan Bratislava
2011-2012 – Member of extraleage team of TK Slávia Právnik
2015- Member of extraleage team of Love 4 Tennis
Winner…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
Member of Atp & WTA coach association
2016-present
LOVE 4 TENNIS ACADEMY, Bratislava, Slovakia
Cooperating with many talented young players.

Currently works with:
Lukáš Lacko – ATP 44
Bethanie Mattek-Sands – WTA 30 (singles),WTA 3 (doubles)

Previous cooperation
2011-2012 – Natális Vajdová – ITF 50, WTA 473
2012-2014 – Daniela Hantuchová – WTA 5
2011,2015 – Magdaléna Rybáriková – WTA 31
2015,2016 – Lucie Šafářová – WTA 5
2015 – Kristýna Plíšková – WTA 62
2014 – Kristína Kučová – WTA 71
SPARING EXPERIENCE
2011-present – Fed Cup team Slovakia
Dominika Cibulková (highest ranking…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2017-present
Love 4 Tennis Academy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Main Coach – juniors

2011-2017
Coach in National Slovak Tennis center
Personal coach of:

Andrej Martin
Lukas Lacko
Martin Klizan
Martin Blasko
Patrik Fabian
Alex Molcan
Lukas Klein
Patrik Nema
Kristina Schmidlova
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
Played ATP tour tournaments
Winner of many FUTURE tournaments
highest ranking ATP 247 (singles)
highest ranking ATP 174 (doubles)
EDUCATION
Sportove gymnazium Bratislava
Coach degree “B”
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Slovak – native speaker
Czech – fluent
English – fluent

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2015-present
LOVE 4 TENNIS ACADEMY, Bratislava, Slovakia
Main Coach – Juniors

2006-2014
ITA Professional Academy Bratislava, Slovakia
Headcoach

Personal coach of:
2003-2006 – Romana Tabakova – WTA 240
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
1997-2003 Winner of some Slovak men’s tournaments and member of Extraleague team TK Slovan Bratislava.
EDUCATION
2000-2003 – Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava
Highest Slovak national coaching degree
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Slovak – native speaker
Czech – fluent
English – fluent
Russian – fluent
German – basics

COACHING EXPERIENCE
Main coach

Personal coach of:

Ons Ja buer (TUN) max 83.WTA
Anna Blinkova (RUS) max 114.WTA
Vanda Lukacs (HUN) max 369.WTA
Brian Bencic (SUI) max 182.ITF
Viktoria Morvayova (SVK) max 48.ITF
Tamara Kupkova (SVK) max 271.ITF
Simon Norman (SWE) who finished 2. in Swedish Malmö (unofficial indoor world
championship under 12.
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
● started with tennis as 5.years old
● as 9.years old (y. 1997) he won all tournaments in category HTO and Slovak championship
● he represented his country in all categories U12, U14, U16 and U18
● highest ITF…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-present
Love 4 Tennis Academy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Main Coach – Kids

Sparing partner:
Gombos Norbert ATP 103
Partl Adrian ATP 393
Kalenichenko Danylo ATP 549
Morgosová Karin WTA 351
Caro Martin NR 23
Kurek Vladimir NR 5
Behun Jakub NR 6

2015-present
LOVE 4 TENNIS ACADEMY, Bratislava, Slovakia
Manager: Websupport, Marketing, Player Service

2007-2008 TK Pro Set, Caoching kids and amateur players
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
2015 – highest national ranking 36
2015 – Regional Champion category men
Winner of numerious junior and mens tournament in Slovakia
Member of Love 4 Tennis Extraleague Team
EDUCATION
2008 – Graduation High School (academy…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
LOVE4TENNIS Academy
U14, U18, Travel coach

Personal coach of – Adam Behúň (nr.4 in SVK U14), Matej Gálik (nr.10 in SVK U14)
Travel coach – Alexey Aleshchev ITF 42
– Xianyao Zhou ITF 419
– Natalia Szabanin ITF 48
– Henrik Traskin ATP 1497
– Barbora Matúšová ITF 82
– Enes Irgare TE 687

Sparing partner:

Daniela Hantuchová WTA 5
Kristína Kučová WTA 71
Illya Marchenko ATP 49
Uladzimir Ignatik ATP 137
Chantal Škamlová WTA 218
Danylo Kalenichenko ATP 480
Adrian Partl ATP 393
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
Winner Championship of Slovakia U14 in double
Quarter-final Championship of Slovakia…

COACHING EXPERIENCE
2015 – 2018 – VTC Pezinok – active players and kids
2019 – present – Love 4 Tennis Academy, Bratislava, Slovakia
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
2008 Region Champion with Norbert Gombos, cat. Junior
2008 highest national ranking 52 in Juniors
Member of Love4Tennis extra league team
Tournaments in categories Futures and ITF
EDUCATION
2008 Slovanské jazykové gymnázium Žitavská Bratislava
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Slovak – native speaker
Czech – fluent
English – fluent
Russian – fluent
German – basics

COACHING EXPERIENCE
Active coach of Men’s Slovak representation on a wheelchair, personally coaching Marek Gergely – ITF rank 40
Love4Tennis

Sparing coach of
Laura Janíčková/ženy- 2017 22. place SVK,
Klára Ondrejčeková/ženy- 2018 26. place SVK,
Matúš ševčík/muži- 2016 20. place SVK.
EDUCATION
FTVŠ University Comenius
Coaching License A
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Slovak – native speaker
Czech – fluent
English – fluent

EDUCATION
2020-present
FTVŠ UK – Fitness coaching

WORK EXPERIENCE
2020 – present
Love4Tennis – Manager

2017-2020
Love4Tennis – Assistant coach
PLAYER EXPERIENCE
Played ITF tournaments
NAIA tennis tournaments in the USA
UCLA events U16 (2014-2015)

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Slovak – native speaker
Czech – fluent
English – fluent

EDUCATION
PhD. (2014) – Sport Science
Assistant Professor in Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Professional Intership at the University of Vienna (Austria) and University of Coimbra (Portugal)
COACHING EXPERIENCE
Filip POLASEK – ATP 7
Elena RYBAKINA – WTA 17
Kristina KUCOVA – WTA 71
Viktor DURASOVIC – ATP 298
Karin MORGOSOVA – WTA 351
Vanda LUKACS – WTA 369
Adrian PARTL – ATP 393
Danylo KALENICHENKO – ATP 439
Ekaterina VISHNEVSKAYA – WTA 523, ITF 97
Natalia SZABANIN – ITF 48
Bianca BEHULOVA – ITF 96
Matej GALIK –…

Stretching

muscle relaxation and stretching
general body activation
strengthening postural muscles
learning the relationship between movement, breathing and muscle relaxation in order to prevent common injuries caused by intensive sports activity and correcting bad habits or minor pathologies caused by asymmetric physical activity.

EDUCATION
UKF FSVaZ Department of Psychology focus in clinical and counseling psychology
UKF FPV Department of Educational and School Psychology
CAREER
Sports psychologist and mental coach at TK L4T
Sport Kids Academy – general sports education of children up to 12 years
Swimming instructor infants at Aquababy Senec
Scientific publications at FTVŠ UK