Ronald Agenor

The Stich Saga - After my Father's death in 1992 I was going through some tough times and ended tumbling down the ATP rankings but a boost of motivation and a change of style of play allowed me to regain a taste for competition at the end of 1993 while Wimbledon champion Michael Stich was winning the Masters against Pete Sampras and finished the year number #2 in the world. At the beginning of January 1994 I started the year at the tournament of Doha (Qatar), and found myself in the second round against…

I have a wonderful memory of Jean Paul Belmondo a loyal Roland Garros spectator and one of the greatest french actors whom I greatly admired through his films especially “The Professional” (a 1981 French action thriller film directed by Georges Lautner). My only meeting with french legend “Bebel” took place in 1989 during my quarter-final against Michael Chang. At one set all and 4/1 for me in the 3rd set, the referee stops the match for the 3rd time because of the rain. This time I decided not to go to the…

I was part of the tennis news during the Monte Carlo Masters 2019, in Monaco, a place where I was once a resident. Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert ranked ATP #36, after his victory over world #6 Kei Nishikori from Japan, and looking back over the evolution of his game, remembers a life tennis career changing meeting he had with me after another loss in a USTA/ITF Future event in Texas. His dad was a friend of mine and asked me if I could watch his son play. I did, and what I saw was not pleasant and I told…