Bang on the court. They revived the well-known Slovak commentator during the doubles match

Emergency medical help was called at a critical moment for the 77-year-old Gabani, who suffered heart failure during the game.

But he had already received care before her arrival. “He was being revived by one of the local fitness trainers, who also came running with a defibrillator. The resuscitation itself lasted about 5 minutes,” the website cas.sk quotes one of the witnesses to the situation.

Petra Klimešová, the spokeswoman for the operation center of the emergency medical service, confirmed that “the operator of the emergency line 155 first performed telephone-assisted emergency verbal assistance during resuscitation, during which an automatic external resuscitation device was also used.”

“And until the rescuers arrive on the scene. After successful resuscitation, they transported the man to the National Institute of Heart and Vascular Diseases,” added the emergency service spokeswoman.

The commentator was already communicating during the transfer to the hospital.

Gabáni worked for public television for more than 20 years, he was a colleague of his fellow commentators Karol Polák, Ivan Niňaj and Czechs Štěpán Škorpil, Jan Slepička and Jaroslav Suchánek.

As witnesses will surely remember from the days of Czechoslovak Television, he commented on football, athletics and classical skiing. He last spoke to STV viewers in the summer of 1995 during the Volleyball Champions League. Then his steps led to the newly established VTV, a private television station in Slovakia, where he co-founded the sports newsroom as editor-in-chief.

In 2001, he left for the sports editorial office of TA3. He retired from news television in the fall of 2023. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the TV Screen Personality poll.