Chairman of the tennis association Ivo Kaderka.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
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“I am of course very happy. It is an appreciation of the results of Czech tennis and its enormous strength in the world and in Europe. It is certainly a consequence of our massive restart in the summer after the first wave of the pandemic, when we helped the whole of Europe and the world and showed way back to the courts, “Kaderka said in a statement to CTK.
Since 2017, Kaderka has held the position of Vice President of the European Federation. German Eva-Maria Schneiderová and Finn Matti Virtanen ran for president. Kaderka succeeded in the third round, in which he defeated Schneider.
On behalf of the Czech Sports Union and on my own behalf, I congratulate Ivo Kaderek on his great diplomatic sporting success. Kaderka thus becomes one of the highest-ranking Czech sports representatives in international sports structures. It is a good signal about Czech sport to the world.
– Miroslav Jansta (@JanstaMiroslav) October 24, 2020
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“I ran with great humility, because I knew that humility would be the decisive tongue on the scales. My firm and unchanging opinions have been known for many years. For some, they are hard but still consistent,” Kaderka said.
He takes the election as a responsibility at a time when the world is fighting coronavirus. He therefore does not want to open up controversial topics such as the Davis Cup and the Fed Cup. “Now we need to do everything we can to get out of the crisis that the enemy covid has pushed us into. It’s not about smiling and pleasing visions, but about hard work and trying to find a way to help everyone who needs it at the moment. If they say that this period is the worst since the Second World War, it certainly applies to sports, including tennis, “said Kaderka, 55.
Among Czech officials in important positions, for example, the head of Czech biathlon, Jiří Hamza, has been the first vice-president of the IBU International Union since 2018, and Libor Varhaník, chairman of the Athletics Association, has been vice-president of the European Athletics Association (EA) since last year.
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