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In Sports News: Tennis player Tomáš Berdych will return for the Czech Republic’s opening Davis Cup round against Kazakhstan; in hockey, Plzeň lose their best-of-five preliminary round playoff series against Litvínov, while Karlovy Vary force a decider against Slavia; the spring season opens in football with Jablonec’s David Lafata scoring a hat-trick against Liberec; in the English Premier League, Birmingham – with Czech defender Jiránek – triumph over Arsenal to win the Carling Cup.

In Sports News: speed skater Martina Sáblíková breaks her own world record in the women’s 5,000 metres; for first time in four efforts Záhrobská fails to win medal in Alpine World Cup Skiing Championships; Czech hockey clubs gear up for the playoffs; in the NHL, hockey forward Patrik Eliáš racks up milestone 800 pts; football’s Skácel scores 9th goal of season for Edinburgh; Petr Čech’s Chelsea are knocked out of FA Cup.

Tennis player Petra Kvitová wins the Open GDF SUEZ against the world no. 1, Martina Sáblíková takes bronze at the World Speed Skating Championship in spite of a fall, and saving the worst for last, the Czech ice hockey team finishes in last place at the LG Hockey Games in Stockholm.

In Sports news this week: the Czech Republic’s women’s tennis team beat Slovakia in the first round of the Fed Cup; more action in the Czech hockey extraliga as the play-offs beckon; and in football, Galatasaray’s striker Milan Baroš returns after a two-month injury break.

In Sports News this Monday: Zdeněk Štybar defends his world cyclo-cross tite; Tomáš Verner takes bronze at the European Figure Skating Championships; in tennis, Jiří Veselý wins the junior boys’ singles at the Australian Open, and in football, Sparta’s Ivory Coast striker Bony Wilfried joins the Dutch club Arnhem.

In this week’s Sports News: Tomáš Berdych and Petra Kvitová book places in the last eight at the Australian Open; Šárka Pančochová takes second in the snowboard slopestyle world championships; Třinec consolidates at top of ice hockey extraleague, and Ondřej Synek voted world’s best rower.

In Sports News: Czech tennis players Berdych, Záhlavová off to winning start at Australian Open; Czechs suffer disappointing Dakar Rally; goalkeeper Per Čech confident Chelsea are recovering from slump; Hamrlík & Plekanec score for the Canadiens in the NHL; ski jumper Jan Matura clinches best result of career.

In Sports News: Martina Sáblíková is crowned the women’s European Speed Skating Champion for 2011; cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer clinches the bronze medal in this year’s Tour de Ski; Zdeněk Štybar wins the Czech championship in Cyclo cross for the fifth time; Czech Tatra truck racer Aleš Loprais clinched his second stage win in this year’s Dakar Rally; Sparta stumble again in the domestic hockey league.

In Sports News: Top domestic league hockey clubs Pardubice and Kometa face off under an open sky; the Czech U20 hockey team staves off Germany at Worlds; cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer falls to 21st spot after three Tour de Ski events; football’s Aston Villa score late goal against Čech’s Chelsea to draw; Czech quad rider Josef Macháček takes an early lead in the Dakar Rally underway in South America.

In Sports News: The Czech team readies for Norway in its opening game at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship; in the Extraliga, league leaders Vítkovice battle back from three goals down against lowly Kladno; Jágr helps Avangard sink Dinamo Minsk in the KHL; cyclo-cross racer Radomír Šimůnek, jr. suffers collar bone break in World Cup race; more than 150 people take part in the annual polar bear plunge into the Vltava River.