Solnicky and Serme are Czech nationwide champions 2022
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A brand new males’s champion was topped as Jakub Solniky triumphed and Anna Serme retained her title in Prague through the Czech nationwide championships 2022. The occasion was performed in two venues in Prague – Hector sport centre and Squash Bowling Centrum.
Ladies’s Draw & Outcomes
Males’s Draw & Outcomes
Quarters
Within the ladies’s quarters Serme gained comfortably in opposition to Veronika Gaultier. Eva Fertekova beat Tereza Elznicova 3/1. Tereza Svobodova, who took out no. 4 seed Tamara Holzbauerova within the second spherical, continued her good performances and beat shock quarterfinalist 15 yr previous Karolina Sramkova 3/1. Within the final quarter Olga Kolarova, former 5-time nationwide champion, took out 2nd seed Natalie Babjukova 3/0.
Within the males’s occasion all went to the seeding as much as the quarters. High seeded Martin Svec beat Ondrej Uherka 3/0. Marek Panacek needed to combat onerous for 3/2 win in opposition to Ondrej Vorlicek. Defending champion Daniel Mekbib had a tricky draw in opposition to Viktor Byrtus. The rating was shut at the start however on the finish of the primary recreation Daniel barely twisted his ankle, took a 3 minutes break and tried to proceed enjoying however his motion was a bit restricted.
Viktor was in a position to make use of it to get 2/0 lead within the video games however after that he received a bit nervous, made too many errors and misplaced the following two video games. He received his focus again within the fifth and dominated the sport to finish Daniel´s 4 years lengthy reign. Within the final quarter. Jakub Solnicky managed to beat David Zeman 3/0 though he needed to come again from a giant deficits in two of the three video games. .
Semis
The Womens semis noticed one other straightforward win for Anna Serme in opposition to Eva Fertekova. The second semi introduced the largest upset of the match. Tereza Svobodova performed her personal quick and attacking squash to go 2/0 up in opposition to skilled Olga Kolarova. Olga managed to get into the match and levelled to 2/2. Tereza nonetheless began the fifth very nicely and managed to maintain the lead until the top and celebrated her first closing of the nationwide championships.
The primary mens semi introduced a giant battle between prime seeded Martin Svec and final yr’s finalist Marek Panacek. Marek received the primary recreation, Martin levelled the rating. Marek was in a position to get 2/1 lead however Martin began to play extra correct squash in direction of the top of the match and managed to win the fourth and fifth to achieve the ultimate of nationals for a 3rd time.
Jakub Solnicky performed his teammate and coaching associate Viktor Byrtus within the second semi. He appeared to be in management in the entire match and though Viktor got here shut within the second Jakub gained 3/0 and reached his third closing similar as Martin.
Finals
The Ladies’s closing began with each gamers have been a bit nervous. Anna quickly realized she was in a position to management a lot of the rallies, calmed down and comfortably managed to push Tereza Svobodova into taking an excessive amount of threat and make errors together with her superb motion. Tereza did hit some good winners however it was not sufficient within the closing. Anna gained her 4th nationwide title after 3/0 win. The Bronze medal was gained by Eva Fertekova who beat Olga Kolarova 3/1.
It was third time fortunate for Jakub Solnicky within the males’s closing. First recreation introduced some very lengthy rallies the place Martin Svec was in command of essentially the most of them however Jakub all the time managed to remain in these rallies along with his good motion and defence.
As quickly as he had probability he was in a position to push Martin to the 4 corners and Martin began to hit the tin too many instances. 11/6 for Jakub. Within the second Jakub performed tremendous tight squash. His accuracy pissed off Martin who gave up half manner via the sport. Jakub 11/2.
Martin managed to relax within the break earlier than the third. Began the sport very nicely, received a very good lead and managed to maintain the lead until the top. Martin 11/5. Jakub received management of the match again early within the fourth and comfortably gained 11/3 and began to rejoice his nicely deserved first nationwide title.
Within the bronze medal match Viktor Byrtus beat Marek Panacek who was extra drained from his earlier matches 3/0.
