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Czech tennis players defeated the United States 3–2 in the second round of Davis Cup qualifying to advance to the final tournament of the world’s top eight teams. The decisive point came from 20-year-old Jakub Menšík, who beat American Frances Tiafoe 6–1, 6–4 on the hard courts of Delray Beach. The Czechs, who won the team competition in its old format in 2012 and 2013, are back in the quarterfinals for the first time in two years. The final tournament will take place November 18–23 in Bologna, Italy.

Sunday is expected to be cloudy to overcast with storms and rain showers particularly in the central and eastern parts of the country. Day temperatures should range from 15 to 20 degrees Celsius.

Meteorologists have issued a storm warning for the eastern parts of the Czech Republic, where heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected from Saturday evening through Sunday afternoon. Rainfall may exceed 50 millimeters in places, which may cause river levels to rise to the first flood stage, the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute (ČHMÚ) reported. The warning applies to the eastern parts of South Bohemia and Pardubice regions, as well as Moravia and Silesia.

The remains of nine Czechoslovaks killed during World War II were officially repatriated at a ceremony on Prague’s Vítkov Hill on Friday. The remains are those of six members of the Iridium and Bronse paratrooper groups, sent from Britain and killed after their plane was shot down near Munich in March 1943. Two others belonged to the State Defence Guard—one a gendarme, the other a customs officer—executed by Henlein’s followers in September 1938 in Liptáň. Their bodies, buried in what is now Polish territory, were recently recovered and flown back to Prague. Relatives of the deceased received the Defence Ministry’s highest decoration from Minister Jana Černochová (Spolu). She thanked the German and Polish authorities for cooperation in retrieving the soldiers’ remains.