Miloslav Grolmus

Ricany, Czech Republic, ITF Futures, Penta Trading Indoor Ricany 2018, hard, indoor: 1R, Artem Dubrivnyy (RUS) - Marek GENGEL (CZE) 7-6(4) 7-6(3), 2R: Tomas JIROUSEK (CZE) 6-1 6-2, QF: Robin STANEK (CZE) 6-1 6-4, SF: Jiri LEHECKA (CZE) walkover.

Miloslav Grolmus

Age: 37 years (01.01.1981)

Birthplace: Piestany, Czechoslovakia

Residence: Trnava, Slovak Republic

Turned Pro & Retired: 1998 & 2003

Coach since: 2003

Players: Ken Onishi

Introduction

Slovak tennis coach and former professional tennis player
coach at the TC EMPIRE Trnava tennis club
is a certified coach of Slovak Tennis Association
the owner of the The Robinson Tennis Academy & Professional Tennis Registry licenses
speaks English and German fluently

Major coaching achievements

coaching career started in The Robinson Tennis Academy clubs in Serbia and in Turkey
after returning home, he wanted to remain a coach
Martin Durdik was the first player who was coached by Miloslav Grolmus, they were cooperating for 18 months
Durdik became the U18 Slovak Champion in June 2006
Grolmus had been working as the head coach of the Center of the Top Tennis (SVT) at the TK Kupele Piestany since 2006
under his supervision, Filip Horansky became No. 3 in the ITF rankings in May 2011 after he won singles title at the 52nd Trofeo Bonfiglo tournament in Milano
in January 2012, Horansky won the doubles title at Australian Open tournament together with Jiri Vesely
Horansky was No. 623 in the ATP rankings at the end of the year 2012
during the US Open 2011 in New York, Horansky was training under the supervision of Miloslav Grolmus and Ivan Lendl and they almost agreed with Lendl to closer cooperation
Grolmus became the head coach at the TC EMPIRE Trnava tennis club in October 2013 (until 2017)
before that, he had been working with Jozef Kovalik, who moved up in the ATP rankings from No. 333 to No. 230 (June 2013)
Grolmus was a coach of Oliver Nagy at the TC EMPIRE club in Trnava, Slovakia
Nagy scored his first ATP point as 17-years old at the EMPIRE FUTURES Trnava 2013
all the three players - Martin Durdik, Filip Horansky and Oliver Nagy – became the U18 Slovak champions in singles
2016 - was a coach of Andrej Martin from Slovakia (ATP Career Singles High No. 98), Martin advanced in that season from qualifying to the 3R of the Roland Garros and was in the singles final of ATP tournament in Umag
2016 - was a coach of Hans Podlipnik-Castillo from Chile (ATP Career Doubles High No. 58)
2017, 2018 - he cooperates also with Pavel Shumeiko from Ukraine, he won two ITF junior tournaments (Grade 2) and moved up to the TOp 50 of Junior Combined ITF rankings
is a coach of Japanese player Ken Onishi

Major player's achievements

he began to play when he was seven years old at the TK Kupele Piestany club
was one of the best juniors of his age in the world
a multiple Slovak tennis champion
the U14 European singles champion from Genova, Italy
the European U16 doubles champion from Hatfield, Great Britain
was No. 27 in the ITF junior ranking on December 31st, 1997
in June 2000, he won the title at the satellite tournament in Sofia
his career-high ATP singles rankings was No. 530 which he earned in October 2000
ended his playing career in the year 2003