Ronald Agenor

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**Ronald Agenor**

Country	Haiti/ United States
Residence	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Date of birth	November 13, 1964 (1964-11-13) (age 43)
Place of birth	Rabat, Morocco
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	81 kg (180 lb/12.8 st)
Turned pro	1983
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	US$2,014,601
Singles
Career record:	221–257
Career titles:	3
Highest ranking:	No. 22 (May 8, 1989)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2nd (1990)
French Open	QF (1989)
Wimbledon	2nd (1989, 1993)
US Open	4th (1988)
Doubles
Career record:	26–58
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	No. 111 (July 14, 1986)
Infobox last updated on: July 17, 2007.

Ronald Jean-Martin Agenor (born November 13, 1964 in Rabat, Morocco) is a professional tennis player from Haïti. He has American citizenship.

Agenor was born in Morocco and lived there for ten years. He then lived in Zaire for four years, before and moving to Bordeaux, France at the age of 14. He was ranked the World No. 8 junior tennis player in 1982. He turned professional in 1983.

In 1989, Agenor 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. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 that year.

In 1990, Agenor won two further tour singles titles at Berlin and Genova.

In 1999, Agenor 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.

Ronald is the son of Frederic Agenor, who was a United Nations diplomat for over 20 years before becoming Haïti's Minister of Agriculture in the 1980s. He has two brothers, Pierre-Richard Agenor^[1], a World Bank economist and professor who splits time between Maryland and London, and Patrique Agenor^[2], a doctor living in France.

Agenor 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.

Agenor has recorded as a rock musician.[1]