The philosophy of the club TC EMPIRE Trnava is to establish a permanent and top-class team of trainers comprising of renowned trainers. The main priority of the club is to ensure the maintenance of a high-grade training regime under the supervision of well experienced trainers for all age and performance categories from amateur to professional players. Trainers' team consists of five tennis trainers, two fitness conditioning trainers and a physiotherapist. We provide a training regime for more than 200 players.

Vladimir Platenik

Born: 18.2.1976 Education: Slovak tennis association certificate Tennis coach Comenius University diplom tennis coach PTCA President for Slavic countries (www.ptcatennis.org) and PTCA certified coach speaks fluently Slovak, Czech, Russian, German, English

Major tennis achievements:

• 1986 National champion under 10 years in Czechoslovakia

• 1990 Winkler Cup under 14 years in Nurnberg/ Germany winner

• 1992 Winner ETA tournaments in Croatia and England

           National champion under 16 years in Czechoslovakia in singles

• 1993 National champion in doubles juniors and adults Slovakia

• 1994 ITF junior semifinals in Tokyo, Japan

           ITF junior final in Columbia

           Wimbledon junior quarterfinal in singles and final in doubles

           World No. 9 in juniors

           Junior tennis player of the year in Slovakia

• 1995 Thailand satellite winner

           Davis cup team member

• 1996 Turkey satellite doubles winner

           Yugoslavia satellite doubles winner

• 1998 Future tournament in Croatia singles and doubles winner

           Slovakia satellite doubles winner

• 1. Future tournament in Turkey semifinal in singles and final in doubles

           Challenger in Skopje, Macedonia quarterfinal in singles

           Future tournament in Greece and Hungary doubles winner

          Two semifinals in doubles Challenger in India

• Best singles ranking : 378 ATP (1995)

• Best doubles ranking 194 ATP (1999)

Major coaching achievements:

• 2000/2001 tennis coach of Ludmila Cervanova/Slovakia, during their cooperation from nr. 130 WTA to nr. 76 WTA 

• 2001/2002 tennis coach of Henrieta Nagyova/Slovakia, during our cooperation from nr. 29 WTA to  nr. 21 WTA

• 2006 tennis coach of Ivo Klec/Slovakia, during our cooperation from nr. 258 ATP to nr. 178 ATP

• 2007/2009 tennis coach of Dominika Cibulkova/Slovakia, during our cooperation from nr. 158 WTA to nr. 12 WTA

• 2010 tennis coach of Nadia Petrova/Russia, during our cooperation from nr. 29 WTA to nr. 13 WTA

• 2011 Yanina Wickmayer/ Belgium,  3 months cooperation, highlights: semifinals Indian Wells and improved ranking from 26 WTA to 18 WTA.

• 2011 Ksenia Pervak/ Russia, during our cooperation from 98 WTA to 37 WTA, highlights: won Tashkent, finals Baku, semifinals Bad Gastein, fourth round Wimbledon.

• 2012 Polona Hercog/ Slovenia , 36 WTA, highlights: semifinals Charleston, won Bastad.

• 2013 Yanina Wickmayer, 19 WTA, highlights : finals Auckland

• 2013 Ajla Tomljanovic , during our cooperation from 162 WTA to 73 WTA
  

• 2014 Patricia Mayr Achleitner, during our cooperation from 98 WTA to 71 WTA

Miloslav Grolmus 

He works in the club as a coach of Pavel Shumeiko   Born: 01th January 1981 in Piešťany Trainer education: License B International license: The Robinson Tennis Academy Profesional Tennis Registry

Major tennis achievements:

- Repeateding Slovak champion

- European champion until 14 in the singles and  European champion until 16 in the doubles

- He was placed in the ITF ranking top 20 until 18

- He won Satelit Masters competition in Bulgary ( Sofia ) and he reached his highest ATP ranking ever ( he was ranked 530 )

- He finished his career as a player because of his arm problems, that has lasted a long time

- Then he became a tennis coach    

Major coaching achievements:

- He trained Martin Durdík for 1,5 of year who became a Slovak champion until 18 under his supervision

- A head coach of the Professional tennis centre

- He was a private coach of Filip Horanský for 6 years.When Filip finished the season in 2011 he was ranked eight greatest junior player in the world

- Filip was ranked 500 in the ATP ranking at the end og their cooperation

- Now he is coaching Jozef Kovalík ( a Slovak tennis player ), who qualifield in ATP world ranking from 333 position to the 230 position

- He brought boys under 18 to get silver medals in the Slovak team competition

 René Hanák

Born: 4.5.1973 Education: certified coach of Czech Tennis Federation speaks fluently English, Russian and Greek

Major coaching achievements:

• after ending his career, he moved from Prerov to Ostrava
• in Moravia, he coached Adam Vejmelka, who is as old as Tomas Berdych and in August 2007, youngster worked his way up the rankings onto No. 247
• joined Bltc tennis club in Brno
• co-operation with famous coach Jan Kukal in Slovakia
• he was coaching in TK Slovan Bratislava club
• after his return to Ostrava, he decided to move abroad
• in 2009, he became the chief coach of tennis city club in Heraklion, Greece
• in 2015, he became the coach in the EMPIRE Tennis Academy situated in Trnava 

Major player's achievements:

• he was recognised as one of the best Czechoslovak junior tennis players in late 80s
• won the national singles and doubles titles in under 14 and 16 categories
• played the singles final of the famous Pardubice Junior Cup and won the doubles title there
• since 14, he was regularly selected for Czechoslovak national teams
• participant at junior Roland Garros and US Open - in Paris he reached the quarterfinals of doubles together with Pavel Gazda
• in his junior times he beat such opponents like Russian Kafelnikov or Italian Gaudenzi
• ATP career-high No. 349 in singles and No. 243 in doubles
• in July 1996, he was sparring partner of Slovakian Davis Cup team when Slovakia won the match against Portugal 5-0, with Karol Kucera & Jan Kroslak, led by captain Miloslav Mecir, who was the one to invite Hanak practice with the team
• his most valuable wins amongst men is triumph against German Rainer Schuttler (Australian Open 2003 finalist) in the 1st qualifying round of ATP event in Ostrava (1997)
• in 1998, he won twice in the final of Umag’s satellite against Radek Stepanek, who was 19 at that time; they often used to play doubles together
• he used to play doubles also with a former coach of Berdych, Tomas Krupa, with Karol Kucera, Branislav Galik and Igor Zelenay
• won many doubles titles at satellites

Monika Kupková

She works with children under 12 years. Born: 25th January 1972 in Trnava Trainer education:  License B

Major tennis achievements:

• Repeatedly Slovak Champion in doubles in youth categories
• Finalist of the Slovak women hall Championship
• Member of the Slovak national team

Major coaching achievements:

• Coached current junior tennis representative Sarah Mária Juráková and  member of the Youth Training Center Petra Široká
• Currently working with Natália Schwarcová, who gained the third place in the class in 2011
• Stanislav Valent and Tomáš Lánik under her supervision achieved excellent success in categories of children under 10 and they belong to the best players in their category
• 3^rd and 5^th  place in the all-Slovak final of Kid´s Davis  Cup and Fed Cup in the year 2011

Pavol Valent

He works in the club as a conditional trainer. Born: 30th May 1947 in Dojča Trainer education:  Faculty of physical education and sport – specialization: conditional  training

Major sporting achievements:

• Playing in Handball League One  for the club Lokomotíva Trnava for 18 years

Major coaching achievements:

• Worked as a senior trainer TSM for the handball club Lokomotíva Trnava
• Worked as an assistant trainer of the representation of judo (Semir Pepic – OG Atlanta)
• Coached the handball junior team  under 16  to the title of Slovak Champions
• Responsible for fitness conditioning of the players of TC EMPIRE Trnava for last 6 years