Petra Kvitová

Petra Kvitová ( born March 8, 1990 in Bílovec, then Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech female tennis player. She won the 2011 Grand Slam tournament of Wimbledon.

  • 3.1 Individual
  • 3.2 double

Career

Your first major victory could Kvitová in 2008 to celebrate the Cellular South Cup, when they defeated the top-seeded Venus Williams. At the French Open in 2008 she was the first time in the main round of a Grand Slam tournament and immediately reached the knockout stages. On the way, she beat Akiko Morigami, Samantha Stosur in the third round and the 12 -seeded Ágnes Szávay.

At the U.S. Open, she beat 2009, seeded number one Dinara Safina and thereby retained the second round of a Grand Slam tournament, which they lost against Yanina Wickmayer.

8 May 2011 Kvitová won the tournament in Madrid. She defeated Azarenka in the final Wiktoryja with 7:63, 6:4, and thus was the first time in the top ten, the ten world's best tennis players. In the grass tournament in the English Eastbourne she reached on June 18 against Daniela Hantuchova, who had to retire in the second set, also the final, which she lost to Marion Bartoli in three sets. On July 2, 2011 Kvitová succeeded her biggest success to date. DC on their first finals at Wimbledon could the former title holder Maria Sharapova beat and thus secure their first title at a Grand Slam tournament. At the same time she was made an honorary member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Another major tournament win was Kvitová in October 2011 at the WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul. She won all five games. In the final, she defeated Wiktoryja Azarenka 7:5, 4:6, 6:3. The title brought the Czech October 31, 2011 with rank two of her best-ever ranking on the WTA world rankings.

Kvitová was also instrumental in the 3-2 victory of the Czech team in the Fed Cup final on November 6, 2011 in Moscow against Russia. For the Czech Republic Kvitová won in early 2012 together with Tomáš Berdych also. The Hopman Cup with a 2-0 final victory over France And again in Fed Cup Kvitová was on November 4, 2012 in Prague on the success of the Czech Republic ( 3-1 against Serbia) involved, where they won only one of their two singles.

Tournament Win

Singles

Team

Performance in Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA Tour Championships

Singles

Doubles

Awards

  • Czech athlete of the year 2011
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