01.06.2013 13:50:55 | Four out of five members of the current Davis Cup team will be present at the jubilee twentieth year of the UniCredit Czech Open. Early exit from the main draw at the Paris clay Grand Slam helped Radek Štěpánek and Lukáš Rosol get wild cards, Jiří Veselý and Jan Hájek will also participate at the Prostějov challenger. Of course, all under the supervision of the non-playing captain Jaroslav Navrátil. Tomáš Berdych cannot play at the Morava National Tennis Center UniCredit Czech Open, the challenger rules do not allow the participation of the world top ten players, players on the 11th to 50th rank can only play as a wild card.
"It is good that the remaining Davis Cup Team players will play in Prostějov although it would of course be better if they continued at Roland Garros," Jaroslav Navrátil observed. Štěpánek will try to follow up his previous titles, the first one achieved ten years ago and the second one in 2004. Jan Hájek is traditionally successful in the Haná Region during the UniCredit Czech Open; he was out in Paris in the second round with the American Sam Querrey after beating the qualificant American Kudla 6-2, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4. Hájek won the Prostějov tournament in 2006, 2009 and 2010 and last year he was in the finals. Radek Štěpánek lost to the Australian world No. 1 junior Nick Kyrgios in the first round on the Paris clay, Rosol beat the Spanish Riba-Madrid in the first round, and he lost to the Italian Fognini in the second. Jiří Veselý successfully went through the tough qualification draw and he won his premiere participation at the main Grand Slam draw. The seventeen seed in the Roland Garros qualification part first beat the Ukrainian Denys Molchanov 7-6, 6-2, then the Tunisian Malek Jaziri 6-3, 6-3. In the final round, Veselý did not let the local Stephan Robert through to the main draw 6-2, 6-2.
