Martina in Prague!

Martina is in Prague right now for next week's ECM Prague Open. This will be Martina's first ever WTA Tour-level event in the Czech Republic. Previously, she played the Federation Cup in Prague in 1986 and while she did play the Bratislava International in 1973, that was in current-day Slovakia. Click here for some photos of Martina practicing from the Associated Press courtesy of Yahoo! News. More photos from Martina's practice session and press conference can also be found on the official tournament website.

As to be expected, Mlada Fronta Dnes has excellent coverage of Martina this week. Unfortunately, all articles are in Czech so I would really, really appreciate it if someone could help me out with the translation. Thanks in advance! Click here for an article from Thursday, here's one on Martina's arrival and click here for an interview with Martina today. I'm dying to know what Martina said in that interview, besides her comments on Czech President Vaclav Klaus - which have made the English-language news wires (more on that below). Click here for an earlier article, announcing Martina's doubles partner for this week, Barbora Strycova.

The official tournament website also has much on Martina, but again, it's all in Czech. And click here and here for articles from the Ceska Televize website. And one brief piece from Denik Sport. All in Czech - help, please!

More Czech articles - here's one from Ceska Tiskova Kancelar (CTK - Czech News Agency) that basically appears to cover Martina's comments in her interview today with Mlada Fronta Dnes. But I like that photo of Martina at the airport. Earlier articles from the CTK can be found here and here. There's something about the Czech cross country skier, Katerina Newmannova in there but what it says exactly, I don't know. It's also in this other article from Denik Sport. Again, if you can help with the translation, please czech with me - ok, bad joke but I couldn't resist :-)

Fortunately, I was able to find two articles in English! Click here for a nice article from the Prague Post and here for one from the AFP on Martina's comments on Czech President Vaclav Klaus.