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Vitalia Diatchenko wants to return to the Top 100 of the WTA ranking: First time in Slovakia

Vitalia Diatchenko (32), a native of Sochi, plays at both tournaments with a 60 000 USD Prize Money from the EMPIRE Indoor Tennis Tour 2022 series. She also chose the events because her favorite surface is hard. "I'm coming to Slovakia for the first time, I haven't been here yet," admitted the tennis player, who has worked her way up to the 71st place in singles, the highest in the WTA rankings. She did it on November 17, 2014.

The winner of the 1st tournament is Swan

Katie Swan (23) from Great Britain won also the last match of the 1st W60 EMPIRE Women's Indoor 2022 tournament in the TC EMPIRE Trnava. In the singles final, she beat No. 1 seed Xinyu Wang from China 6-1 3-6 6-4.

Pláteník: My goal is to bring additional quality and longtime concept to the EMPIRE Tennis Academy

A unique and record series of international tournaments in TC EMPIRE Trnava

The organization of the international tournaments called EMPIRE Indoor Tennis Tour 2022 in the TC EMPIRE Trnava club is an exceptional event that has no parallel in the history of Slovak tennis. This is a challenging occassion in cooperation with the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which itself considered our club an ideal place for holding such a rich number of tennis events.

Bernarda Pera has won EMPIRE Slovak Open 2019, beat Blinkova

The winner Nr. 11 of the biggest women's tennis tournament in Slovakia, EMPIRE Slovak Open 2019, became Bernarda Pera (USA). In the Trnava finals, she beats Anna Blinkova in two dramatic sets 7-5, 7-5, and receives 15 239 USD and 140 WTA ranking points.

Stringer Robert Nagy had to use 13 km of strings to prepare tennis racquets for players in Trnava

1285 racquets in 10 years

Strings on tennis racquet can strongly affect player’s performance during the tournament, so every such top event needs a leading expert in this field. Expert for EMPIRE Slovak Open is since 2009 in-Samorin-born Robert Nagy. He is the man, who can string a tennis racquet in six minutes, although it happens really in exceptional cases. However, when we talked about his work, we learned a lot more about him.

EMPIRE Slovak Open 2019 will be held in May, it’s 11th edition

Women’s EMPIRE Slovak Open being held in May 2019 will be again the biggest women's tennis event organized in Slovakia. From season 2013 it’s an official International Slovak tennis Championships played outdoors. This tournament is played for 11th time at EMPIRE Tennis club on number 11, Hajdoczyho street in Trnava.

Russian Natalia Vikhlyantseva: She has heard a lot of good things about Trnava

Natalia, what do you think about your results in 2019?

"I can say that that I’m satisfied with my season. Maybe somebody could say that I do not have enough good results, but I try to find my game which I have lost in 2018."

What do you consider to be your biggest success in your career so far?

Vera Lapko is a young and very promising talent from Belarus: Friend of Mihalikova & Kuzmova

No. 2 seed at the EMPIRE Slovak Open 2019 tournament Vera Lapko (20) is a young and very promising talent from Minsk, Belarus. She was No. 60 in the singles WTA already and in 2016 she became the best junior in the world as No. 1. At that time and even before, Tereza Mihalikova from Slovakia was one of her opponents on the junior tour. They played together in the grandslams doubles finals and they were fighting against each other for Australian Open 2016 singles title.

Kuzmova is EMPIRE Slovak Open 2018 singles winner

EMPIRE Slovak Open after 4 years of waiting knows again winner from Slovakia. The biggest clay court event in Slovakia, its 10th edition, was dominated by 20 years old Viktoria Kuzmova, who overwhelmed in the finals Veronica Cepede-Royg of Paraguay in 3 sets 6:4, 1:6 and 6:1. It is the most valuable title of her career so far.

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