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Czech tennis number one Jiri Novak has crowned the best season of his career by reaching the Masters Cup in Shanghai, and puts his new-found success down to coach Jan Kukal. Decathlete Roman Sebrle has been named Czech Athlete of the Year. And the first leg of the second round of the UEFA Cup did not go as well as the four Czech teams taking part might have hoped. All those stories and more are in Sports News.

Czech ice hockey coach Slavomir Lener has called up five uncapped players for a Euro Hockey Tour tournament in Helsinki next week. In tennis, Jiri Novak hopes to cap the best season of his career with an appearance at the Shanghai Masters, though his fate is not in his own hands. Tomas Rosicky has made headlines around Europe with his part in Dortmund's Champions League win over Arsenal and Zizkov have been beaten at home in the first leg of their UEFA Cup second round tie with Spain's Betis. All those stories and more are in Sports News.

A statue of the legendary Czech long-distance runner Emil Zatopek has just been erected in a very fitting location - the garden of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. We hear from his widow Dana Zatopkova, and the greatest Czech athlete of the modern age, Jan Zelezny. Also in Sports News, AC Milan are reportedly interested in Slavia's Stepan Vachosek and Jiri Novak says he will play at tennis's Paris Masters, despite an injury.

It was a dramatic weekend for Czech tennis number one Jiri Novak, who reached his first ever Masters Series final only to miss the match through injury. In football, Sparta Prague remain at the top of the league, while foreign clubs are reportedly hoping to sign several of the club's key players. Pardubice stay on top of ice hockey's Extraliga, while Roman Sebrle has again been nominated for world athlete of the year. All those stories are in Sports News.

In Sports News; the Czech Republic's footballers have won the second game of their qualifying, beating Belarus 2:0 in Teplice. Jiri Novak has become the first Czech tennis player to make the top ten of ATP's ranking system since Petr Korda, the champions of ice hockey's Extraliga - Sparta Prague - are stuck in the wrong half of the table, and Czech-born golfer Alexander Cejka has been talking about his first European Tour title in seven years.

The Grand Pardubice steeplechase - the biggest event on the Czech horse-racing calendar - has been won by Maskula. The Czech football team played Moldova in atrocious conditions and managed to bag three points, making an ideal start to their Euro 2004 campaign. Jiri Novak reached his first tennis final of the year, only to be beaten in four sets. All those stories and more are in Sports News.

After failing to reach the World Cup, the Czech Republic will be hoping to make amends by getting to the Euro 2004 football championships; they play their first two qualifiers over the next week. The draw for the second round of the UEFA Cup could have been worse for the four Czech clubs involved. And ice hockey star Jiri Slegr had a less than ideal final game for Extraliga club Litvinov. All those stories and more are in Sports News.

Viktoria Zizkov have caused a huge upset in football's UEFA Cup by knocking out Glasgow Rangers, while three other Czech teams have also made it through to the second round. Meanwhile, the Czech national team are preparing for two Euro 2004 qualifiers. The Czech Republic have drawn Russia in the first round of tennis's Davis Cup, and ice hockey coach Josef Augusta has gotten off to a bad start with bottom of the table Havirov. All those stories and more are in Sports News.

The Czech volleyball team have scraped through to the last 16 at the world championships in Argentina. In football, both Rosicky and Koller got on the scoreboard for Dortmund in the Champions League, while English champions Arsenal are said to be interested in the Czech defender Tomas Ujfalusi. Daja Bedanova has dropped her coach, who also happens to be her father. All those stories and more are in Sports News.

The Czech cyclist Lada Kozlikova has won the first Czech gold medal in track cycling in 16 years. Sparta Prague still lead the football league despite a poor performance against Pribram, while they and three other Czech clubs look forward to European action during the week. And Jaromir Jagr continues to be the best paid Czech sportsman. That's all in today's Sports News.