What is Performance Puzzle?
Who is it for?
How?
Mgr. Peter Lopata, PhD.
S&C coach and Sports performance analyst
He is currently engaged in the Let’s Play Tennis Slovakia project. Previously, he worked at the National Sports Centre for 11 years, including 5 years as the Head of the High Performance Department. He was also a researcher at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport and a doping officer at Slovak Antidoping Agency. In the Team Slovakia project he was a member of the Committee for the defence of the preparation plans of the best athletes of Slovakia.
As a coach or methodologist he has cooperated with various athletes, sports and organizations, he was a fitness coach of the women’s tennis team at the BJKG finals tournaments, he cooperated with Austin Krajicek (world number one for 2023 in doubles).
He has co-organized several educational projects and has long been trying to connect new research findings from sports and other sciences with proven practice and to improve the methodology of athletes‘ preparation. He received his basic education in sports sciences at FTVŠ UK in Bratislava, FTVŠaZ in Banská Bystrica and German Sport University Cologne. He is constantly trying to expand his horizons by studying at home and abroad and through practical experience.
Mgr. Pavel Smela, PhD.
S&C coach and Sports performance analyst
He gained the knowledge for his practice at universities in Bratislava, Coimbra, Vienna, as well as at international conferences, seminars and training courses. He also passed on his practical experience to students at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Comenius University in Bratislava as an assistant professor.
He has 18 years of experience in tennis fitness training. He is currently working with Anastasia Potapova. Alex Molcan, Aslan Karatsev, Filip Polasek, Jelena Rybakina, Anna Blinkova, Ricardas Berankis were some of his tennis players on the tennis tour. He passes on his experience gained in tennis fitness to coaches and players at the Love 4 Tennis academy, where he is the head conditioning coach. He also cooperates with the Slovak national table tennis team.
His great strength is communication within the team. He considers the analysis of sports preparation to be the basis for effective planning of the training process and achieving the set goals.
