This is how the hall looked like during the finals.
An official "sheet" with Martina Benešová and me
The hall from a different view
Prizes for the National Champions
These prizes were for the winners of mixed doubles
again - Czech national champions in mixed doubles´ prize
Jan Fröhlich and Hana Milisová - runners up
The winners - Marin Herout and Eva Titěrová - Brožová
Herout to serve
Titěrová to serve
Jan Fröhlich after a hard smash
Milisová in action
Titěrová and Herout
Defending a drop shot
Herout´s scissors jump
Last years winner Herout and Titěrová defended their title
Prize-giving ceremony - Martina Benešová and Stanislav Kohoutek, the home pair are recieving flowers from the director of the tournament Ing. Karel Kotyza
1st place: Herout & Titěrová; 2nd place: Fröhlich & Milisová; 3rd places: Kohoutek & Benešová + Bitman & Ludíková
Mixed doubles medalists
Warming up before the mens´ doubles final Pavel Florián (me)
And my doubles partner Stanislav Kohoutek
I am afraid we lost this rally
Standa is serving
It´s my turn now
Me in the air performing a hard smash
One more hard smash from me
10:11 - we were losing while having the first interval of the match
Our coach Radek Votava gives us some good tips how to improve our game
eleven - ten, play
Standa in the air catching the shuttle in midcourt area
A good serve is a very important element of doubles
Some anticipation of the next shot from the opponents
Defence of our opponents´ attack
Some good grimace after winning the rally
Pavel Florián (me) recieving the short serve
Standa to serve again
A more detailed picture
We won the first game 21:17
This moment looks very interesting. We were not in an easy position as you can see.
Me lifting a drop-shot
But we did it and won the second game easily 21:12. We managed to defend our home title.
Our opponets M. Osička & J. Skočdopole had to be satisfied only with the 2nd place
Thank you
Let´s go to our coach
an interview for the TV came immediately after the match
Some happy moments
The interviewer asked both of us how we liked the game and what the tournament was like for us
Radek Votava - our coach and main organiser of the National Championships was very happy, too
Our semifinal opponents - Jiří Provazník and Jan Jirásek
Another semifinalist - Jaroslav Sobota
The runners up - Jiří Skočdopole and Martin Osička (right)
"Congratulations"
Director of the Championships Ing. Karel Kotyza giving out the prizes
Me and Standa played with fever. Both of us were very exhausted after the finals.
A gold medal for women´s doubles winners
The winning trio
And here are Pavel and Standa with all their prizes
The tournament stringer Jindřich Růžička ...
... doing his job
Ladies singles final ...
... between Martina Benešová ...
... Eva Titěrová
And this is the prize-giving ceremony - 3rd place was taken by Miroslava Vašková (right) and Kristína Ludíková
Martina was the 2nd - same place as last year
Eva Titěrová - Brožová defended the title - and not only in singles, but also in mixed and ladies´ doubles
1st Eva Titěrová 2nd Martina Benešová
Martina wih "her" stringer
and Standa and Pavel with him, too
And this is Petr Koukal in men´s singles final
Here he was serving ...
... to his opponent Jan Fröhlich
The umpire of the match was Michaela Bencová
Petr ...
... and Jan
Jan Fröhlich with Radek Votava, who was helping him during the match
There were so strong emotions flowing through Petr´s head after winning the title
As you can see, it was very tough
And Jan got beaten after 9 years by a Czech player
Petr hugging with his father
