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The brutal attack on Czech tennis star Petra Kvitová shocked not just the Czech Republic but the world. But in spite of an encouraging response from the public to police appeals for help and high priority for the case, the attacker has still not been found. The tennis star’s home tennis club has now stepped in with a bid to help the investigation.

This Tuesday marks 80 years that the first match was held in the country’s first national hockey league. The teams Sparta Prague and Vítkovice faced off on a natural ice rink in Ostrava-Vítkovice. Forward Vilém Kubečka scoring the very first goal but Sparta came back to tie it. For much of the month, the league, now known as the Extraliga, will be celebrating the anniversary.

In Sports News this Monday: Good start to year for Czech women tennis players, with Šafářová, Siniaková and the Plíšková sisters all racking up wins in their first matches of 2017; Dakar Rally has 24 Czech participants; Slavia beat Sparta in annual old boys’ game; and Havlát to make dramatic return for Brno?

2016 was a mixed year for Czech sport. There was quite a lot to celebrate, with the country bringing home 10 medals from the Rio Olympics, including one gold, and lifting tennis’s Fed Cup yet again. On the downside, the country’s footballers had a disastrous Euro 2016, picking up just one point.

Petra Kvitová will play tennis again: that is the consensus after the two-time Wimbledon champion underwent almost four hours of surgery on Tuesday to repair cut tendons and nerves on her left hand. The injuries were sustained as Kvitová defended herself against an unknown assailant in an attack at her apartment.

In Sports News this Monday: High emotion at Nové Město na Moravě as Koukalová wins Biathlon World Cup event in front of home fans; big sponsorship deal for skier and snowboarder Ledecká; and two Czechs find the net in Italy’s Serie A.

In Sports News this week: speed skater Sáblíková wins 5,000 metres at Heerenveen; Hockey forward Plekanec gets four assists in 10-1 drubbing of Colorado; Petr Čech’s Arsenal second in Premiere League.

In Sports News this Monday: After summer of questioning future Gabriela Koukalová tops podium in Biathlon World Cup event in Sweden – fan support helped, she says; Slavia impress while Plzeň enter winter break with game in hand after meeting at Bohemians 1905 cancelled; and Schwick scores again for Sampdoria.

In Sports News this Monday: Czech mixed relay team come seventh as Biathlon World Cup begins in Sweden; Viktoria Plzeň are soccer “winter champions”; and surprise defeats for leading sides in hockey’s Extraliga.

It took 33 years for Sparta to end the drought against Southampton but at home at Letná stadium on Thursday the Prague club finally did it. A lone goal in the first half, which went unanswered, means that Sparta has extended its Europa League campaign in the spring.