07.06.2013 18:14:51 | The first finals match of the 20th UniCredit Czech Open was played on court No. 1. The top-seeded doubles team Nicholas Monroe (USA) and Simon Stadler (GER) defeated Lukas Rosol and Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL) 6:4, 6:4. What did the happy winners say? “We’ve played together for over a year and this is our second time in doubles at this tournament. We fell in the quarterfinals last year. And we’ve reached the very top this year. We really wanted to come back very much because the local challenger is well organized and we knew it would have its quality. We believed we could win here which we eventually did,“ Monroe of USA said after the victorious finals.
His partner Stadler of Germany added: “Every match is important at such a tournament. The quarterfinals match we played was very hard and the rain made it even more difficult. It was very exhausting but the finals were probably most important for us. We wanted to win very much but we knew there were two strong players against us. Eventually, it was a very nice match.”
