Tennis: Štepánek moves up six spots in ATP rankings

Tennis player Radek Štepánek has moved up six spots in the ATP ladder after leading the Czech squad to triumph in this year’s Davis Cup. The player finishes his season in 31st spot. On Sunday, Stepanek won the final and deciding match against Spain’s Nicolas Almagro to clinch the Czechs’ first Davis Cup win in 32 years (the first time for the Czech Republic as an independent state). One Czech daily called Sunday’s success the tennis “equivalent of Nagano” – the Winter Olympics in 1998 where the Czech hockey team won gold.

Author: Jan Velinger