Empire Tennis Academy
Hotel of EMPIRE | |
| Formation | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Miroslav Hlavna |
| Purpose | Sport |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 48°23′14″N 17°35′15″E / 48.387173376206015°N 17.58760971064301°E |
Director | Tomáš Boleman |
| Website | tcempire |
Empire Tennis Academy Trnava is a tennis academy and training center in Trnava, Slovakia. It hosts the Empire Women's Indoor, Empire Slovak Open tournaments[1][2][3] and junior
History
The club was founded in 2006 in the Slávia sports complex, which was built in Trnava in the early 1970s. The complex has 13 clay courts and three indoor courts with Plexipave Plexicushion Prestige surfaces, which were used at the Australian Open. The complex includes the EMPIRE hotel with wellness and services for athletes.
The academy with tennis courts is part of the larger Slávia sports complex, which also houses an athletics stadium with a tartan track. The tennis courts are open to the public and to junior players in training. TC Empire Trnava plays in the Slovak men's and women's tennis Extraliga. [4]
Notable people
Notable players
- Andrej Martin
- Tereza Mihalíková
- Anna Blinkova
- Elina Svitolina (2016-2020)[5]
- Daria Kasatkina (2014-2020)[6]
Notable coaches
References
- ^ Červený, Michal (2017-08-08). "V Trnave vybudovali tenisový klub, ktorého členom je aj svetová päťka". Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 2025-06-29.
- ^ "Tennis club TC EMPIRE Trnava – EMPIRE Tennis Academy". www.tcempire.sk. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
- ^ "TC EMPIRE Trnava prepísal históriu, je najúspešnejším klubom na Slovensku". trnava-live.sk (in Slovak). 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
- ^ "Extraliga 2025 | tenisové turnaje". www.stz.sk. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
- ^ "Svitolinová je novou členkou Empire Tennis Academy v Trnave". sportnet.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2025-06-29.
- ^ "Tennis club TC EMPIRE Trnava - Roland Garros winner Darya Kasatkina about TC EMPIRE Trnava: I like it here and I think I found a coach here". www.tcempire.sk. Retrieved 2025-06-29.