TENNIS

The tennis tournament will be held in the beautiful surroundings of the tennis club in Proseč nad Nisou. All in all, 19 players from six countries will compete for the medals in four tournaments: the singles tournament, doubles tournament, and mixed doubles and team events. The matches are played for one set with a 7-point tiebreaker. The finals will be played for two sets. In the event of a tie, a 10-point tiebreaker game will be played. The teams entering the tournament will always play two matches – a match of the first seeds and a match of the second seeds. A doubles game will decide ties.

Czech players are the hottest favorites for gold medals: the four Czech players have been very successful internationally. Josef Hus and Jakub Jerhot won the silver medal in the teams tournament and bronze medal in the doubles tournament at the 2007 European Championships in Poland. A year later, Czech players won all the tournaments they entered at the 2^nd World Championships of the International Sports Federation for People with an Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID) in Klodzku. Ondřej Sedliský won the singles tournament, beating Josef Hus in the finals. Sedliský and Jerhot won the doubles tournament with Hus and Jiří Humhal reaching the bronze medal. The Czechs won the same set of medals in the teams tournament: Sedliský and Hus won the gold while Jerhot and Humhal finished third. Therefore, the home crowd can expect the tennis players to bring home some silverware ahead of the Global Games in Liberec.

Besides the Czechs, the Australian players have the biggest chance of winning medals. The winner of the Swedish Global Games and the three-time Australian Classic champion beaten in the semifinals at the last year's World Championships in Poland, Hugh Ennor, has surprisingly pulled out of the Games. Therefore, Ennor's Australian teammate David Burke will be the player to beat at the 2009 Global Games.

Tennis schedule