Vladimír Pláteník (born 18 February 1976) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Slovakia.
Pláteník is currently a head coach at the international EMPIRE Tennis Academy in Trnava, Slovakia where he worked with Daria Kasatkina. He is also the former coach of Dominika Cibulková, the 2014 Australian Open finalist. Pláteník was coaching her from 2007 to 2009 when she reached the semifinals of the French Open in 2009. In the quarterfinals, she defeated Maria Sharapova 6–0, 6–2. On 6 July 2009 she reached No. 12 in the WTA rankings. He was the coach of Anna Blinkova. He was also the coach of Veronika Kudermetova since 2021. He currently coaches Lulu Sun since 2024.
A native of Bratislava, he is the vice president of the Professional Tennis Coaches Association for Slavic countries and a PTCA-certified coach.
Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss1994WimbledonGrass Jamie Delgado Ben Ellwood Mark Philippoussis5–7, 6–7
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 1 (1–0) LegendATP Challenger (0–0)ITF Futures (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Croatia F2, Mali LošinjFuturesClay Václav Roubíček6–1, 6–0
Doubles: 9 (4–5) LegendATP Challenger (0–0)ITF Futures (4–5)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (4–4)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Yugoslavia F3, BelgradeFuturesClay Joseph Sirianni Daniel Fiala Dejan Petrovic3–6, 7–5, 3–6Win1–1Croatia F2, Mali LošinjFuturesClay Luka Kutanjac Goran Orešić Ivan VajdawalkoverLoss1–2Slovenia F1, KranjFuturesClay Boris Borgula Leoš Friedl Petr Kovačka3–6, 3–6Loss1–3Uzbekistan F4, FerganaFuturesHard Mark Nielsen Oleg Ogorodov Dmitriy TomashevichwalkoverWin2–3Hungary F1, BudapestFuturesClay Martin Hromec Gergely Kisgyörgy Peter Madarassy7–5, 6–4Win3–3Greece F5, ThessalonikiFuturesClay Martin Hromec Michael Logarzo Joseph Sirianni7–5, 4–6, 6–2Loss3–4Slovenia F1, KranjFuturesClay Tomáš Čatár Leoš Friedl Petr Kovačka7–5, 2–6, 4–6Loss3–5Turkey F5, AntalyaFuturesClay Martin Hromec Amir Hadad Andy Ram4–6, 4–6Win4–5Hungary F5, BudapestFuturesClay Amir Hadad Lee Radovanovich Rodrigo Ribeiro6–2, 6–7(2–7), 6–4
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