Welcome to Renaissance Tennis Management
Renaissance Tennis Management
(RTM) is an international tennis management company that takes a
personal hands-on approach to strategic career development. We deliver
truly extraordinary
services that go well beyond player
representation.
Professionals who work with the company have become top performers in
their respective careers. United by the passion for tennis and a
distinctive focus on winning, every
team member actively
participates in developing and branding our players, covering every
aspect on and off the court.
It is the
philosophy adapted by RTM that
is the core of our
win-win relationship with our clients. We commit to and invest in
people, giving them the personal attention their careers demand.
We are pleased to
represent: Benjamin Becker,
Monica Niculescu, Lukas Dlouhy, Leander Paes, Michael Lammer, Horia Tecau, Iveta
Benesova, Lera Solovieva,
Peng Shuai, Flavia
Pennetta, Sergiy Stakhovsky, Mathilde Johansson, Sergei
Demekhine, Benedikt Dorsch, Kamil Capkovic, Marta Domachowska and other outstanding
juniors and professionals.
We
encourage you to contact us regarding any management or tennis
career matter.
Sergiy Stakhovsky reaches career high #74 on ATP Rankings
Sergiy is following his consistent results track and keeps rising in
the World rankings even during the end of the 2008 season. On
November 17th he reaches his all time best ranking as #74 on the
list, after playing a Challenger event last week at his home country
Ukraine. In Singles, he reached the quarterfinals before losing to
France's Fabrice Santoro 7-6(5) 6-2. In doubles, playing with fellow
countryman Sergey Bubka Jr, as wildcards they've reached the
semifinals, losing to Guillermo Canas (ARG) and Dmitry Tursunov
(RUS) 7-6(3) 1-6 (10-5). The event was a $125,000 +H Challenger
played in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Sergiy is the first player from
his country to finish in Top 100 since Andrei Medvedev was #58 in
2000.
Monica Niculescu reaches her all time Best singles ranking #47
RTM's Monica Niculescu has been showing some very consistent results
in the WTA Professional Circuit. The consistency of positive results
in the last few weeks made Moni jump many spots in the rankings and
reach her all time best ranking of #47, with 623 points.
Last week Monica reached the finals of the $100,000 +H event in
Krakow, Poland, losing in the finals to Great Britain's Anne
Keothavong 6-7(4), 6-4, 3-6. Prior to Krakow, she had positive
results with the Semifinals in Bratislava's $100,000 + H; and
Semifinals at the $100,000 event in Poitiers, France.
During the week of October 13th in Zurich, Monica had her first
career Top 20 win. As a qualifier, reached 2nd round, beating on the
way World #12 Anna Chakvetadze of Russia.
Horia Tecau and Yves Allegro win the doubles crown in Eckental,
Germany
This past week RTM's Horia Tecau, together with his doubles partner
Yves Allegro, won the 30,000 Euros +H Challenger in Eckental,
Germany. In the finals this past Sunday, they beat Brazil's Marcio
Torres and Great Britain's James Auckland 6-3, 3-6, (10-7).
With the win the doubles team Tecau/Allegro received 1,900 Euros and
added 55 points in the ATP Doubles Ranking.
Following the great result and with the points from Eckental, this
Monday November 10th Horia reached his all time Best Doubles ranking
of #88.
The last salute to Federico Luzzi
A great crowd and a lot of commotion for the last salute to Federico
Luzzi, the ill-fated player of Davis Cups crushed saturday at the
age of only 28 years by a form of fulminating leukaemia and
pneumonia. At Dome of Arezzo, the city where Federico was born, have
been celebrated the funerals yesterday afternoon, all strait around
the Luzzi family: to the mother Paola , Maurizio the father and
Francesca the sister in this moment of immense pain for a premature
and thus unexpected loss. To represent the Italian Federation Tennis
there was the President Binaghi Angelo, vicario vice-president
Alfredo Bartolini, Sergio Palmieri and the captain of Davis Cup
Corrado Barazzutti, who had trained Luzzi in his first years in the
circuit. The many companions of thousand battles in Davis and
tournaments : among those Daniel Bracciali, Potito Starace, Filippo
Volandri, Georgio Galimberti, Alessio Di Mauro, Vincenzo Santopadre,
Davide Sanguinetti, Paolo Canè. And still Flavia Pennetta, Fabio
Fognini, Gianluca Naso, Thomas Fabbiano, Andrea Gaudenzi. There were
also Renzo Furlan, production manager of the Federal Center of
Tirrenia, the coaches Umberto Rianna and Edoardo Infantino, a
delegation of the Tc Parioli for which Luzzi had played the
championship of A1 Series in the last three years:the last match
eight days ago when in Olbia he withdrawn after hardly a fifteen
against Tomas Tenconi of the Geovillage. Present the provincial
president of the Cones George Cerbai, the representatives of all the
tennis circles of Arezzo and of the other aretine
sport federations , besides the representatives of Tuscany
regional Committee of the Fit: the president Guido Turi, the vicario
vice president Adrian Bandini and the vice president Sauro Dani. To
the sides of the coffin there were at one side an enormous tennis
raquet of flowers, from the other the banners of the Tc Parioli and
the Municipality of Arezzo represented by the mayor Giuseppe Fanfani.
The public square around the Dome and the church were crowded by
hundreds of persons: the relatives, many friends, but also simple
passionate of tennis who wanted to be there to give the extreme
salute to a boy who all remember as full of life, of the sunny
character and the contagious sympathy. A boy who had made himself to
be loved since he moved the first steps in the juniores, till the
entrance in the greater circuit and to the debut in Davis Cup as
protagonist with the blue mesh in 2001. The ceremony has been
officiated by the Vicario of the Bishop of Arezzo, Don Alvaro
Bardelli. “Upon Arezzo and tennis it has come down a sadness cloud -
he said - we will always remember Federico, he has carried the name
of Arezzo around the world. He has been born with the raquet in the
hand and he has left us with the raquet in the hand. We will miss
his `luzzate', but we must celebrate life and not cry his death”. It
has been also read a letter written from the companions with whom he
had shared the career and he had been trained for years, from
Bracciali to Starace. “Hello Federico - it recited - we are sure
that you are already 'above' playing tennis with Saint Peter,wearing
him out of short balls… of you we will remember the simplicity, the
spontaneity and the sympathy… we will make you live again every day
in our heart and when we will be sat around a table your place
always will be occupied”. The chorus “Federico, Federico…” and a
long, longest applause, has then greeted the exit of the coffin from
the Dome towards the monumental cemetary, where Luzzi has been
buried. Federico has left us, but from above he will continue to
watch us. Smiling, as he always did in field and outside.
ATP Pro Federico Luzzi Passes Away
Italian ATP pro Federico Luzzi died Saturday morning in a Florence,
Italy hospital. The 28-year-old went to a hospital for an illness
earlier this week and was discovered with a accute case of leukemia.
He went into an irreversible coma Saturday morning, and passed away
soon after.
ATP Chairman Etienne de Villiers said, "Losing a young man so
tragically in the prime of his life , a son to a loving family and a
great sportsman is a terrible blow. Federico was hugely respected by
his fellow professionals and was one of the most popular players on
the ATP Tour. Federico will be much missed by all who knew him and
the thoughts and the prayers of everyone at the ATP are with
Federico's family on this very sad day for tennis."
Luzzi, a native of Arezzo, Italy, turned pro in 1998 and he compiled
his best season in 2001 when he finished with a year-end high No.
96. That year he reached the quarterfinals in Barcelona, his best
ATP result, and won two Challenger titles. He also made his Davis
Cup debut.
This year Luzzi attempted to qualify in three ATP level tournaments
and he competed in six Challengers, playing his last event in Todi,
Italy last month.
He is survived by his father, Maurizio; mother, Paola; and older
sister, Francesca.
Benjamin Becker upsets ATP's #12 Stanislas Wawrinka in Switzerland
BASEL, Switzerland -- Fifth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka was upset by
German qualifier Benjamin Becker 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in the first
round of the Swiss Indoors on Monday.
Wawrinka served for the match at 5-4 in the second set, but Becker
broke with two straight forehand winners. The 137th-ranked German
saved two match points when serving at 5-6 and soon won with a
backhand winner.
The loss damaged Wawrinka's chances of qualifying for next month's
Masters Cup in Shanghai. The 23-year-old Swiss is 11th in the
standings, and only the top eight qualify.
Pennetta stuns #1 in the world Jankovic in Zurich
ZURICH, Oct 16 - Jelena Jankovic's bid for a fourth straight title
ended when the world number one lost 5-7 6-3 6-3 to unseeded Italian
Flavia Pennetta in the Zurich Open second round.
The Serb was playing her opening match of the week after receiving a
first-round bye but showed little sign of having benefited from her
brief rest since winning in Moscow.
Jankovic took the first set with two breaks of serve against one
dropped service game of her own but appeared to be unsettled by a
painful-looking fall in the 12th game.
She received treatment for a cut on her knee after dropping serve
again early in the second set only to fall further behind when
Pennetta hit a return winner to go 4-1 up.
Jankovic broke back but continued to look out of sorts, saving one
break point at 4-2 before suffering a further break at 5-3.
The third set was evenly balanced with the first seven games going
to serve before Pennetta grabbed the decisive break with a backhand
winner down the line.
The Italian world number 17, who had lost all five of her previous
meetings with Jankovic including last week's Moscow quarter-finals,
kept her nerve to serve out the match as she finished off with an
ace.
"I don't think I played that differently to when I lost to her last
week," said Pennetta.
"When you're playing such a good player you have to take some risks.
Sometimes you get the luck and sometimes you don't. I tried to match
her style of play and I think that confused her a little."
In the previous round, Flavia beat WTA #13 Nadia Petrova 6-1,6-1;
and last week in Moscow had a solid win against USA's Venus Williams
6-4,2-6,6-4.
Dlouhy-Paes Win Bangkok
Top seeds Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes (pictured above) combined to
win their first team ATP title with a 6-4, 7-6(4) victory over
Americans Scott Lipsky and David Martin at the Thailand Open in
Bangkok on Sunday.
The Czech-Indian duo fired five aces, won 74% of points on serve and
converted two of four break points to secure the victory in 1 hr.,
16 min.
"It's a great feeling to win the whole thing and
I think if we keep working like this we can win more tournaments,"
said Dlouhy. "I think we played high-level tennis and when they came
back in the second set we just stepped it up and we just focused on
the basic things. I hope that we can keep it like this and we can
enjoy the rest of the year and we are looking forward to playing the
Masters Series events."
"It's always special stepping on the court with
Lukas because not only does he complement my style of playing but
he's also teaching me things," commented Paes. "It's interesting
that, after playing for so many years, to have a partner who's also
teaching me a few things is really beautiful."
Individually, the 35-year-old Paes has now won
40 ATP doubles titles, while Dlouhy, 10 years his junior, has
compiled five. It is the second title in Bangkok for Paes, who also
triumphed in 2005 with Paul Hanley (d. Erlich-Ram).
On winning 40 titles, Paes said: "It is special
and I think that one of the things I like to do is see my partner
win a lot more. This is the challenge for me because I know if he's
winning I'm winning too. I'm trying to step up Lukas, this is the
fifth one that he's won, so now I'm trying to step up his wins
because then mine will go up automatically."
Currently No. 6 in the Stanford ATP Doubles
Race, Dlouhy and Paes joined forces for the first time at Roland
Garros in May and have since reached the finals at Halle (l. to
Youzhny-Zverev) and the US Open (l. to Bryan-Bryan) and made a
semifinal exit at Wimbledon (l. to Nestor-Zimonjic). They improve to
a 21-6 record.
2008 US Open Finalist Gabriela Paz teams up with RTM
 Renaissance
Tennis Management proudly announces the signing with Venezuela's
Gabriela Paz, becoming part of RTM's already exceptional team of
professional players.
Gaby had an excelent run at this year's US Open Juniors, reaching
all the way to the singles finals. After this great result she
reached her career high of #10 in the ITF Juniors rankings.
 Gaby
is now focused on her professional career. She is a very young and
talented player, who is very excited to have the RTM Team behind her
covering all angles of her career, and giving her all the support
needed to reach her best tennis!
Best of luck Gaby!
RTM x RTM on match between Romania and India in
Bucharest
Both RTM players Leander Paes and Horia Tecau
will play each other during this weekend's match
between Romania and India for the World Group
Playoffs in Bucharest. This weekend will
determine what countries will be back to World
Group 2009.
RTM's Steve Darcis is also playing Davis Cup
this weekend. He will be representing Belgium
against Switzerland in Lausanne.
We wish best of luck and a great performance
during this Davis Cup weekend for all of our
players!
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leander Paes and Zimbabwe's Cara Black
won the mixed doubles title at the U.S. Open on Thursday,
beating Briton Jamie Murray and American Liezel Huber 7-6
6-4.
The fifth seeds saved two set points
in the first-set tiebreak before
breaking once in the second to clinch
their first grand slam title together.
Black hit a crucial
volley to save the first set point and
Murray, who won the mixed doubles at
Wimbledon in 2007 with Jelena Jankovic,
netted a volley on the second.
Murray was the only
man to lose his serve, in the fifth game
of the second, and Paes served out for
his eighth grand-slam title, while Black
has now won seven, including three
mixed.
Black and Huber will
join up in the final of the women's
doubles when they play American Lisa
Raymond and Australian Sam Stosur, the
10th seeds.
Paes will be looking
to win the men's doubles title when he
and Czech Lukas Dlouhy, the seventh
seeds, play American twins, Bob and Mike
Bryan.
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