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On Sunday rain once again caused difficulties for Czech tennis players at Wimbledon.

Kateřina Siniaková and her US partner Taylor Townsend's round of 16 match against Canada's Leylah Annie Fernandez and Japan's Ena Shibahara was postponed several times from its original start time in the early afternoon. Meanwhile Barbora Krejčíková and her German doubles partner Laura Siegemund's second-round match against the American duo of Alycia Parks and Hailey Baptiste was suspended during the second set due to the inclement weather. However, at the time the match was put on hold, Krejčíková and Siegemund were leading 6-3, 3-2.

On Monday, Krejčíková will face the American Danielle Collins in the women's singles round of 16 to fight for a place in the quarterfinals.

Four baby capybaras were born at Prague Zoo on Sunday morning, the zoo's director Miroslav Bobek told the Czech News Agency. However, one of them, which the parents left in the inner part of the enclosure while going outside with the other three, is unlikely to survive.

The capybara, native to South America, is the largest living rodent on Earth. Prague Zoo acquired the parents of the new litter of capybara pups last autumn, the female from Germany and the male from Denmark. Prior to that, there hadn't been any capybaras in the zoo since the 2013 floods, but the zoo decided to start keeping them again due to their immense popularity.

The Czech women's volleyball team have made it through to the elite Nations League for the first time after winning the Challenger Cup in Manila on Sunday. The Czechs beat Puerto Rico 3:1 in four sets of 25:23, 25:20, 18:25 and 25:18 in the final of the qualifying tournament in the Philippines. They will now compete against 17 other national teams next season in the 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League.

This is the Czech team's third attempt at winning the Challenger Cup. In 2019 in Peru, they lost 2:3 to Canada in the final, and in 2022 they got knocked out in the quarterfinal, losing to Belgium.

The Crystal Globe for Best Film at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival went to the British documentary A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things by Northern Irish director Mark Cousins. His portrait of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, exploring her pivotal 1949 experience on Switzerland's Grindelwald glacier that reshaped the British modernist painter's artistic perspective, beat 11 other contenders in the competition to bag the top prize at the gala closing ceremony on Saturday evening. The trophy also comes with a USD 25,000 cash prize and is awarded to both the film's director and producer equally.