Prague: Midfielder Tomas Rosicky and goalkeeper Petr Cech have been included in the Czech Republic squad for the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Italy next month.
The Czechs need to do well in the June 7 game in Prague to keep their hopes alive to qualify for the tournament in Brazil.
Italy leads Group B of European qualifying with a three-point advantage over Bulgaria. The Czechs are third, five points behind Italy.
Czech Republic coach Michal Bilek will stage a training camp next week for players whose season is over. Rosicky, who helped Arsenal qualify for the Champions League with a fourth-place finish in the Premier League, will be among them....
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03:21 PM, May 24, 2013
Munich: Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic beat seventh-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the BMW Open. Youzhny was the second former winner of the clay-court event to be eliminated after two-time champion Nikolay Davydenko lost on Monday. Youzhny was the 2010 winner. Wild-card entry Gael Monfils of France topped eighth-seeded Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-3, 6-3. Fifth-seeded Alexandr...
12:22 PM, May 01, 2013
Palermo: The Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova rallied to beat seventh-ranked Sara Errani 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 Sunday after a five-hour rain delay and cut Italy's lead to 2-1 in the Fed Cup semifinals. The eighth-ranked Kvitova won the final 11 games of the rainy match, overwhelming Errani with her attacking game. Kvitova, who has led the Czechs to the Fed Cup title the past two years, held a 26-6 edge in...
12:46 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Washington: As details about the suspects in the Boston bombings case emerged, a lot of confusion was created on Twitter when a few users mistook Chechnya to the Czech Republic. The two suspects - Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev - were described by family and law enforcement as "brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya". But while posting information about the Tsarnaev brothers on Twitter, many users linked them to the...
11:53 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Palermo: Roberta Vinci will face Petra Kvitova on the opening day of the Fed Cup semi-finals between Italy and the two-time defending champion Czech Republic. Vinci beat former Wimbledon champion Kvitova in straight sets in Poland last weekend to move up to a career-high ranking of No. 12. The semifinal opens Saturday with seventh-ranked Sara Errani facing the 25th-ranked Lucie Safarova. After reverse singles on Sunday on the red clay...
06:22 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Monte Carlo: Rafael Nadal calmly continued his bid for a ninth consecutive crown at the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-2 6-4 third-round victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany on Thursday The Spanish world number five recorded his 44th win in a row in the first big claycourt event of the season to set up a quarter-final encounter with 34th-ranked Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria. The 21st-ranked Kolschreiber did not pose...
06:12 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Rome: Francesca Schiavone and Flavia Pennetta are back in Italy's team for a Fed Cup semi-final against the Czech Republic. The veterans sat out the first round when Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci led the Azzurre to a 3-2 comeback win over the United States. Errani and Vinci remain in the team. The semi-final is scheduled for April 20-21 on red clay at the Palermo tennis club. It's the fifth...
11:50 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Astana, Kazakhstan: Yuriy Schukin and Andrey Golubev beat Radek Stepanek and Jan Hajek 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-3 in doubles on Saturday to cut the Czech Republic's lead against Kazakhstan in the Davis cup quarter-finals to 2-1. After rallying from a break down to win the first set, the Kazakh pair broke decisively in the ninth game of the second. They then won the next three games to take a 2-0...
04:27 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Astana: Jan Hajek defeated Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the opening singles Friday, giving the defending champion Czech Republic a 1-0 lead over Kazakhstan in their Davis Cup quarter-final. Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev was scheduled to play Lukas Rosol in the second singles. Hajek saved a break point in the third game before breaking Kukushkin in the eighth and then serving out the first set. The Czech won five consecutive...
05:20 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Astana: Czech Republic have rested Radek Stepanek and chose Jan Hajek and Lukas Rosol to try to give the Davis Cup defending champions a good start against hosts Kazakhstan in the opening singles of their quarterfinal on Friday. The Czechs are already without injured world No. 6 Tomas Berdych, while Stepanek, who earned the winning point in the final against Spain last year, is coming back from neck surgery in...
04:09 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Berdych dropped out after losing Sony Open quarter-final against Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-3 6-3. ...
11:00 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Radek Stepanek has recovered from neck surgery and is expected to play doubles for Czech Republic in Davis Cup quarts against Kazakhstan. ...
07:45 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Radek Stepanek says he has recovered from a back injury and is available to play for defending champion Czech Republic in next month's Davis Cup quarter-final. ...
11:41 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Erratic serving cost Petra Kvitova dearly as the fifth-seeded Czech lost 4-6 6-4 6-3 to Russian Maria Kirilenko. ...
07:20 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Kvitova rallied to overcome Samantha Stosur 2-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4 in a matchup of top-10 players to give the Czechs an insurmountable 3-0 lead. ...
09:14 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has been named Czech Player of the Year for a record sixth time, said the domestic football association. ...
04:58 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Berdych eased to a 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-1 victory over 289th-ranked Henri Laaksonen. ...
09:31 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Czech captain Petr Pala will stick with the same squad that lifted the crown for a second straight year in November. ...
11:58 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The 17-times grand slam champion played twice for his country last year but has decided to sit it out the Czech clash. ...
02:43 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Berdych will next play the winner of the match between Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. ...
10:50 AM, Jan 16, 2013
