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Czech tennis player Jiří Lehečka will face world number two Jannik Sinner of Italy in the Miami Open final on Sunday.

Lehečka reached the final after beating France’s Arthur Fils 6–2, 6–2 in the semi-finals on Friday. It will be their fourth meeting, with Lehečka having lost the previous three matches to Sinner without winning a set.Their most recent match came in the third round of last year’s French Open.

In Miami, Kateřina Siniaková will also play for the doubles title. Together with American partner Taylor Townsend, she defeated Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani 4–6, 6–4, 10–3 and will face Italy’s Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in the final.

The only step that could currently help lower fuel prices is capping the margins of fuel retailers, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Sunday. The government is set to discuss the issue on Monday, with representatives of the five main fuel companies in the Czech market expected to attend the meeting.

Babiš said in a video posted on the social network X that price caps on fuel or cuts to excise duty had not worked abroad. Fuel prices in the Czech Republic have risen sharply since the end of February, when the conflict in Iran began.

The Finance Ministry said the government will discuss possible regulation of retailers’ margins or other steps aimed at petrol stations. According to the ministry, inspections so far have shown that retailers’ margins have actually declined since the conflict began.

The tenth edition of the Vajíčkobraní festival is taking place on Charles Bridge in Prague on Sunday. Egg carriers from the town of Velvary will cross the bridge in a procession with squires and a medieval band and hand baskets of hard-boiled eggs to the mayor of Prague 1.

The event recalls a 14th-century legend linked to the construction of Charles Bridge. According to the story, eggs were added to the mortar to strengthen it. People from Velvary, worried the eggs would break during the journey to Prague, boiled them instead and became the target of ridicule.

The procession is due to set off across Charles Bridge at 1 p.m., accompanied by historical costumes, music and a horse-drawn carriage carrying the eggs. An exhibition titled Šumava Easter will also open at the Charles Bridge Museum.

Police have detained a fourth suspect in connection with a terrorist attack in Pardubice. The person, a Czech national, was placed in custody by a district court in Pardubice on Saturday afternoon, police said on the social network X. Authorities did not say whether the suspect is a man or a woman.

Police said they are still searching for other suspects in the case involving the deliberate arson attack on a hall at the LPP Holding arms factory in Pardubice.

Three other suspects were detained earlier this week and charged with carrying out a terrorist attack and participating in a terrorist group. According to police, the group includes citizens of the Czech Republic and the United States. Two suspects were detained in the Czech Republic and one in Slovakia.