Matelová will not compete for a medal with Balážová at the World Championships in doubles

At the World Championships in Durban, table tennis player Hana Matelova was only one set away from advancing to the semi-finals of the doubles, but in the end she and Slovakian Barbora Balážová lost to Japan’s Miju Kihara and Miju Nagasaki 2:3 in sets. However, with the fifth place, Matelová, the last Czech representative at the championship, improved her maximum at the World Championships and equaled the result of Iveta Vacenovská in singles from 2009.