Tomas Forter reports
Finals
No surprises in today´s finals of the 20th Czech national championships as both titles succesfully defended by top seeded players.
Lucie Fialova got to very good starts in all three games against Olga Ertlova, who managed to come back strongly in first and third but Lucie was just too good today and deserved to win her fifth title.
Jan Koukal was always in control of his final against Lukas Jelinek but had to work harder than he probably expected. Lukas played very well but Jan´s experience was the difference towards the ends of all three games.
Finals
[1] Lucie Fialova – [2] Olga Ertlova 11/8 11/3 12/10 42 min.
[1] Jan Koukal – [2] Lukas Jelinek 11/8 11/7 11/7 42 min.
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Saturday Report
The 20th Czech nationals are down to the finalists tonight.
It is played on the glass court in one of the Prague´s big shopping malls (different one to last few years). No major upsets so far as top two seeds are going to meet in both men´s and women´s finals tomorrow.
We expect a good quality squash tomorrow as 3 out of 4 finalists are from world´s top 50. Lucie Fialova (4 times champion and defending champion) is going to meet her big rival Olga Ertlova (champion two years ago) and Jan Koukal is looking forward to add another one to his remarkable 12 titles (being 28 years old) against Lukas Jelinek (the only player who beat Koukal in the nationals in the last 13 years – two years ago).
Quarters:
[1] Jan Koukal – [7/8] Michal Jadrnicek 11/1 11/7 11/2
[3/4] Petr Martin – [5/6] Daniel Mekbib 11/9 2/11 9/11 11/9 11/9 56 min.
[5/6] Ondrej Ertl – [3/4] Roman Svec 13/11 11/5 11/4
[2] Lukas Jelinek – [7/8] Jaroslav Cech 11/8 12/14 11/8 11/8 46min.
[1] Lucie Fialova – [7/8] Katerina Vagnerova 11/9 11/8 11/5
[3/4] Anna Klimundova – Denisa Ticha 11/4 11/9 4/11 11/5 24 min.
[5/6] Kristyna Alexova – [3/4] Tereza Svobodova 11/5 11/6 11/4 23min.
[2] Olga Ertlova – [7/8] Klara Janoskova 11/3 11/3 11/7
Semis
[1] Jan Koukal – [3/4] Petr Martin 11/5 11/5 11/9 28 min.
[2] Lukas Jelinek – [5/6] Ondrej Ertl 11/6 11/1 11/7 30 min.
[1] Lucie Fialova – [3/4] Anna Klimundova 11/5 11/4 11/7 22 min.
[2] Olga Ertlova – [5/6] Kristyna Alexova 11/2 11/4 12/10 26 min.
Complete results are here:
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=4C2E6741-E6F1-4EEA-BC34-5343D32D92D6
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