The well-known Slovak coach Tibor Toth, a former coach of Dominik Hrbaty or Karin Habsudova, is going to cooperate with Illya Marchenko from Ukraine. The member of the LOVE 4 TENNIS Academy will be coached by Toth and we will see them both more often in our club.
“We have agreed to cooperate in December 1st 2014 for one year. Illya approached to me last season but I was with Slovak player Petra Uberalova. He was waiting to find out how this cooperation develops,” said Toth for the love4tennis.sk website. Toth is very familiar with the Ukrainian players for many years, he has also worked in their Davis Cup team. He was a personal coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky from Ukraine in the past.
“Illya and me, we know what we can expect from each other. We will spend a lot of time in LOVE 4 TENNIS club because we have good conditions here and they have offered us good terms of cooperation. I was looking for more options in Bratislava because Illya is a good hard court player and there are two hard courts here in L4T. We have immediately agreed with head coach Erik Csarnakovics,” Tibor Toth explained the reasons of the cooperation.
Toth will start the season with Marchenko in Chennai, India and then they will fly to Melbourne for Australian Open qualifying. 27-years old Marchenko, No. 143 in the ATP rankings, wants to be in the Top 100 again.