Ronald Agénor

Ronald Agénor

Country (sports)	Haiti United States
Residence	Beverly Hills, California, USA
Born	(1964-11-13) November 13, 1964 Rabat, Morocco
Height
Turned pro	1983
Retired	2002 (very brief comeback in 2006)
Plays	Right-handed (1-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,014,601
Singles
Career record	221–257 (at ATP Tour, Grand Prix tour and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 22 (May 8, 1989)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (1990)
French Open	QF (1989)
Wimbledon	2R (1989, 1993)
US Open	4R (1988)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (1984DE, 1988, 1996)
Doubles
Career record	26–58 (at ATP Tour, Grand Prix tour and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 111 (July 14, 1986)

Ronald Jean-Martin Agénor (born November 13, 1964 in Rabat, Morocco) is a former professional tennis player who represented Haïti during his playing career. He is the only Haitian to have ever earned a Top 25 world ranking in singles, reaching as high as World No. 22 in May 1989.

Personal life

Agénor was born in Morocco and lived there for ten years. He then lived in Zaïre for four years, before moving to Bordeaux, France at the age of 14.

His father is Frédéric Agénor, who was a United Nations diplomat for over 20 years before becoming Haïti's Minister of Agriculture in the 1980s. Ronald has two sisters and three brothers, including Pierre-Richard Agenor, an economist and professor of International Macroeconomics and Development Economics at the University of Manchester, and Patrick Agenor, a cardiologist living in France.

Agénor is married to former model Tonya Williams, they have two daughters, Sascha Lourdes Agenor and Chloe Iman Agenor. The family lives in Beverly Hills.

Tennis career

Juniors

He was ranked the No. 8 junior in the world in 1982, turning professional the following year.

Pro tour

In 1989, Agénor reached the quarter-finals of the French Open (where he was knocked-out by eventual-champion Michael Chang), and won his first top-level singles title at Athens. In 1990, Agénor won two further tour singles titles at Berlin and Genoa.

He competed in three Summer Olympic Games, in 1984 (a demonstration event), 1988 and 1996.

In 1999, Agénor finished the year ranked World No. 98 and became the first player aged over 35 to finish in the top-100 since Jimmy Connors in 1992.

Agénor last competed in an ATP-sanctioned tour event in July 2006 at the Aptos Futures event after a four-year layoff from tour tennis, losing 3–6, 4–6 in the first round.

Career finals

Singles (3 titles)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) Tennis Masters Cup (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (0–0) Grand Prix / ATP World series (3–0)

Titles by Surface Hard (0) Grass (0) Clay (2) Carpet (1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	1.	16 April 1989	Athens Open, Greece	Clay	Kent Carlsson	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2.	24 June 1990	Campionati Internazionali di Puglia, Italy	Clay	Tarik Benhabiles	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Winner	3.	14 October 1990	European Indoor Championships, Germany	Carpet (i)	Alexander Volkov	4–6, 7–6, 6–4

After tennis

Agénor has also recorded music as a rock musician [1].

He is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Monaco-based international organization Peace and Sport.

External links

• Official website
• Ronald Agénor at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Ronald Agénor at the Davis Cup