Ronald Agénor

Ronald Agénor
Nation:	Haiti United States
Birthday:	November 13, 1964
Size:	180 cm
1st professional season:	1983
Resignation:	2002
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 2,014,601
singles
Career record:	221: 256
Career title:	3
Highest ranking:	22 (May 8 1989)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	26:58
Highest ranking:	111 (July 14 1986)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ronald Jean-Martin Agénor (born November 13, 1964 in Rabat , Morocco ) is a former tennis player who first played for Haiti and later became a US citizen .

life and career

Agénor is the youngest of six children. His father was a diplomat in the United States for over 20 years before becoming a minister in Haiti. In 1974, at the age of ten, Agénor began playing tennis in Zaire . Four years later he moved to Bordeaux to fully concentrate on tennis and develop his game. At the age of 17 he was number 24 in France and a year later, after winning two junior tournaments, number 8 in the junior world rankings.

In 1983 he became a tennis professional and initially played at satellite tournaments, where he achieved his first world ranking points. In 1985 he won the Challenger tournament in Marrakech and reached the top 50 in the world rankings for the first time . The following year he stood at the side of Mansour Bahrami in his first double final. In 1987 he reached the finals at the tournaments in Basel , Bordeaux and Gstaad , but could not win any of the tournaments. The final in Basel against Yannick Noah was the first final in ATP history in which two black tennis players met. In 1989 he won his first ATP tournament in Athens with a final victory against the then number 6 in the world rankings, Kent Carlsson . The following year he won the ATP tournaments in Berlin and Genoa .

After the death of his father in 1992, Agénor interrupted his career. After dropping back to 161th place, it returned to the top 30 in 1994. In 1996 and 1997 he took another break and only appeared in three tournaments. In 1998 he started another comeback and he was able to play his way back into the top 100 from world number 790. After Jimmy Connors in 1992, he was the first over 35-year-old in the top 100.

While still active, he began his career as a tennis coach in 2002 and opened the "Ronald Agénor Tennis Academy", in the same year he ended his active career due to an injury. He achieved his best placings in the world rankings in 1989 with position 22 in singles and 1986 with position 111 in doubles. His best performance in a Grand Slam tournament was the 1989 quarter-finals of the French Open , in which he was defeated by the eventual winner Michael Chang . In the doubles competition, his best results were second round participation at the French Open and the US Open .

Between 1990 and 2008, Agénor played 30 singles and 18 doubles games for the Haitian Davis Cup team . Before his last call to the team for the 2008 doubles against the Virgin Islands , he had been out for six years.

In 2002 Agénor married the actress Tonya Williams, with whom he has two children. He also released two CDs of rock music .

Tournament victories

Legend

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup

ATP Masters Series

ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series (3)

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1	1989	Athens	sand	Kent Carlsson	6: 3, 6: 4
2	1990	Genoa	sand	Tarik Benhabiles	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
3	1990	Berlin	Carpet (i)	Alexander Volkov	4: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4

Web links

• ATP profile of Ronald Agénor (English)
• ITF profile of Ronald Agénor (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Ronald Agénor (English)
• Official Homepage (English)