05.06.2017 16:41:14 | At the end of the 1996 season it was decided that the Prostėjov tournament would be played concurrently with the second half of the Paris Grand Slam from 1997 on. "Many criticized our decision, they said that nobody would be willing to come to Prostėjov after having been ousted at Roland Garros. However, many players come here to restore their lost self-confidence," Miroslav Černoek said twenty years ago. It was a joint philosophy of the organizers and the ivnostenská bank.
Since 1997, the Prostėjov tournament has been held in an attractive time, concurrently with the second week of Roland Garros Grand Slam. It gives it a tinge of offered chances after a disappointment in Paris. Prostėjov organizers have always been good in bringing both great stars and stars-to-be to the Haná Region. We simply have to wait who stumbles on the Paris clay. The advance to the 4th round of singles as well as to the third round in doubles closes the door to Prostėjov. The following players signed up for the Prostėjov tournament twenty years ago – Paris champion Gustavo Kuerten, Magnus Norman, but he beat Sampras and Rosette at Roland Garros, Blanco made it to the quarterfinal, and even Korda was ready to come to Prostėjov if ousted in Paris... In such a case Kuerten would have been the sixth seeded player...
