Petra Kvitová

Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová 2018 in Birmingham
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	March 8, 1990
Size:	182 cm
Weight:	70 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jiří Vaněk
Prize money:	$ 30,561,637
singles
Career record:	527: 230
Career title:	27 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	2 (October 31, 2011)
Current placement:	7th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	13:35
Highest ranking:	196 (February 28, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Last update of the infobox: October 12, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kvitová at Wimbledon with the Venus Rosewater Dish (July 2nd, 2011)

Petra Kvitová (born March 8, 1990 in Bílovec , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech tennis player . She won the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament in 2011 and 2014 and the Fed Cup six times with the Czech Fed Cup team between 2011 and 2018 .

Career

Kvitová celebrated her first major victory at the Cellular South Cup in 2008 when she defeated the top seeded Venus Williams . At the French Open , in which she was in the main round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in 2008 , she immediately reached the second round. On the way there she defeated Akiko Morigami , Samantha Stosur and in the third round the number 12 seed Ágnes Szávay .

At the US Open she defeated the top seeded Dinara Safina in 2009 and thus reached the second round of a Grand Slam tournament again, which she lost to Yanina Wickmayer .

In 2011, Kvitová won the tournament in Madrid . In the final, she defeated Wiktoryja Asaranka 7: 6, ³ , 6: 4 and was in the top ten for the first time. At the lawn tournament in Eastbourne she reached on June 18 against Daniela Hantuchová , who had to give up in the second set, also the final, which she lost to Marion Bartoli in three sets. On July 2, she achieved her greatest success to date; when she made her first final at Wimbledon , she was able to secure her first Grand Slam title with a victory over the former title holder Maria Sharapova . This made her an honorary member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club . Kvitová achieved another significant tournament victory in October 2011 at the WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul, when she won all five matches there. In the final she defeated Viktoria Azaranka 7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 3. The title brought her second place in the WTA world rankings to date .

Kvitová was also instrumental in the 3-2 victory of the Czech Fed Cup team in November 2011 in Moscow in the final against Russia. For the Czech Republic, Kvitová won the Hopman Cup together with Tomáš Berdych in early 2012 by beating France 2-0 in the final. She was also involved in the Czech success in the Fed Cup (3-1 against Serbia ) in November 2012 in Prague, where she won only one of her two singles.

With a 6: 3, 6: 0 final victory over Eugenie Bouchard , Kvitová won the title at Wimbledon for the second time in 2014 .

She started the 2016 season at the Shenzhen Open in the first round against Zheng Saisai . But she had to give up this match because of a gastrointestinal disease after losing the first set. This illness was also the reason for the withdrawal from the tournament in Sydney . At the Australian Open 2016 , she was eliminated in the second round against Darja Gavrilowa 4-6 and 4-6. After a mixed first half of the season, she won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August . At the end of the season she won two more tournaments in Wuhan and Zhuhai and won the Fed Cup again with the Czech Republic.

During her preparation for the 2017 season , she suffered a fatigue fracture in her right foot in December 2016, which forced her not to participate in the Hopman Cup .

On December 20, 2016, she was the victim of a knife attack by a burglar, in which she was injured in her left hand and was sidelined for six months. She was attacked in her apartment in Prostějov and wounded with a knife. She sustained cuts to her fingers, ligaments and tendons on her left hand, and two nerves were injured. She had to undergo an operation that lasted almost four hours and was not allowed to put any weight on her hand for six months. After the police discontinued the investigation into this case in November, they were reopened after a tip was received in January 2018 and the alleged attacker was caught in May.

Kvitová returned to the tour at the French Open 2017 , but was already defeated by Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6: 7 ⁵ and 6: 7 ⁵ in her second round match . In Birmingham , the second tournament after her return to the tour, Kvitová reached the final and won against Ashleigh Barty in three sets . This was her 20th tournament win overall and the first since Zhuhai in the 2016 season. In Wimbledon, she lost 3: 6, 6: 1 and 2: 6 to Madison Brengle in the second round . At the US Open , she reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time since 2015, in which she failed against Venus Williams 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 7. Since she could not qualify for one of the year-end tournaments, she ended the year in world number 29.

After early defeats in Sydney and at the Australian Open , Kvitová finally reached the final in St. Petersburg in 2018 , which she won against Kristina Mladenovic . At the following tournament in Doha , Kvitová defeated four top ten players on the way to the title. After another win in Indian Wells, she was able to win 14 games in a row. In May and June further title wins followed at the tournaments in Prague , Madrid and Birmingham .

In 2019, she lost to Naomi Osaka in the final of the Australian Open 6: 7, 7: 5 and 4: 6, after she had not given a set in the previous tournament. As a result, she narrowly missed the first-time lead in the world rankings , but improved again to second.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 1, 2006	Szeged	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Dorottya Magas	6: 1, 6.4
2.	December 17, 2006	Valašské Meziříčí	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Radana Holusová	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	January 21, 2007	Stuttgart	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Anne Schäfer	6: 1, 6: 0
4th	February 18, 2007	Prague	ITF $ 25,000	Carpet (hall)	Magdaléna Rybáriková	7: 5, 7: 6 2
5.	December 9, 2007	Přerov	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Magdaléna Rybáriková	7: 5, 6: 3
6th	December 16, 2007	Valašské Meziříčí	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Ivana Lisjak	6: 4, 6: 0
7th	April 13, 2008	Monzón	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Yanina Wickmayer	2: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5
8th.	January 16, 2009	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Iveta Benešová	7: 5, 6.1
9.	January 8, 2011	Brisbane	WTA International	Hard court	Andrea Petković	6: 1, 6: 3
10.	February 13, 2011	Paris	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Kim Clijsters	6: 4, 6: 3
11.	May 8, 2011	Madrid (1)	WTA Premier Mandatory	sand	Viktoriya Azaranka	7: 6 3 , 6: 4
12.	July 2, 2011	Wimbledon (1)	Grand Slam	race	Maria Sharapova	6: 3, 6: 4
13.	October 16, 2011	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Dominika Cibulková	6: 4, 6: 1
14th	October 30, 2011	Istanbul	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court (hall)	Viktoriya Azaranka	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 3
15th	August 13, 2012	Montreal	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Li Na	7: 5, 2: 6, 6: 3
16.	August 26, 2012	New Haven (1)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Maria Kirilenko	7: 6 9 , 7: 5
17th	February 23, 2013	Dubai	WTA Premier	Hard court	Sara Errani	6: 2, 1: 6, 6: 1
18th	September 28, 2013	Tokyo	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Angelique Kerber	6: 2, 0: 6, 6: 3
19th	5th July 2014	Wimbledon (2)	Grand Slam	race	Eugenie Bouchard	6: 3, 6: 0
20th	23rd August 2014	New Haven (2)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Magdaléna Rybáriková	6: 4, 6: 2
21st	September 27, 2014	Wuhan (1)	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Eugenie Bouchard	6: 3, 6: 4
22nd	January 16, 2015	Sydney	WTA Premier	Hard court	Karolína Plíšková	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 6
23.	May 9, 2015	Madrid (2)	WTA Premier Mandatory	sand	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6: 1, 6: 2
24.	29th August 2015	New Haven (3)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	6: 7 6 , 6: 2, 6: 2
25th	October 1, 2016	Wuhan (2)	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Dominika Cibulková	6: 1, 6: 1
26th	November 6, 2016	Zhuhai	WTA Elite Trophy	Hard court	Elina Switolina	6: 4, 6: 2
27.	June 25, 2017	Birmingham (1)	WTA Premier	race	Ashleigh Barty	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
28.	4th February 2018	St. Petersburg	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Kristina Mladenovic	6: 1, 6: 2
29	February 18, 2018	Doha	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Garbiñe Muguruza	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
30th	5th May 2018	Prague	WTA International	sand	Mihaela Buzărnescu	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
31.	May 12, 2018	Madrid (3)	WTA Premier Mandatory	sand	Kiki Bertens	7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 6: 3
32.	June 24, 2018	Birmingham (2)	WTA Premier	race	Magdaléna Rybáriková	4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
33.	January 12, 2019	Sydney	WTA Premier	Hard court	Ashleigh Barty	1: 6, 7: 5, 7: 6 3
34.	April 28, 2019	Stuttgart	WTA Premier	Sand (hall)	Anett Kontaveit	6: 3, 7: 6 2

ITF team competitions

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partners	Final opponents	Result
1.	November 6, 2011	Fed Cup	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová Lucie Hradecká Květa Peschke	Marija Kirilenko Svetlana Kuznetsova Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova Jelena Wesnina	3: 2
2.	January 7, 2012	Hopman Cup	Hard court	Tomáš Berdych	Marion Bartoli Richard Gasquet	2-0
3.	4th November 2012	Fed Cup	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová Lucie Hradecká Andrea Hlaváčková	Ana Ivanović Jelena Janković Bojana Jovanovski Aleksandra Krunić	3: 1
4th	November 9, 2014	Fed Cup	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová Lucie Hradecká Andrea Hlaváčková	Angelique Kerber Andrea Petković Sabine Lisicki Julia Görges	3: 1
5.	15th November 2015	Fed Cup	Hard court	Karolína Plíšková Lucie Šafářová Barbora Strýcová	Svetlana Kuznetsova Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova Marija Sharapova Jelena Wesnina	3: 2
6th	November 13, 2016	Fed Cup	Hard court	Karolína Plíšková Lucie Šafářová Barbora Strýcová	Kristina Mladenovic Caroline Garcia Alizé Cornet Pauline Parmentier	3: 2
7th	November 10, 2018	Fed Cup	Hard court	Karolína Plíšková Kateřina Siniaková Barbora Strýcová Barbora Krejčíková	Alison Riske Sofia Kenin Nicole Melichar Danielle Collins	3-0

Career statistics and tournament record

singles

The last update came after the WTA tournament in New York City (Cincinnati) 2020.

competition	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	total
Australian Open	-	-	-	1	2	VF	HF	2	1	3	2	-	1	F.	VF	0
French Open	-	-	AF	-	1	AF	HF	3	3	AF	3	2	3	-		0
Wimbledon	-	-	1	1	HF	S.	VF	VF	S.	3	2	2	1	AF	-	2
US Open	-	-	1	AF	3	1	AF	3	3	VF	AF	VF	3	2		0
Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	S.	RR	HF	RR	F.	-	-	RR	RR	-	1
Doha	a. K.		-	na or a. K.			-	VF	VF	a. K.	AF	a. K.	S.	a. K.	F.	1
Dubai	na or a. K.			1	-	1	na or a. K.			AF	a. K.	-	a. K.	F.	a. K.	0
Indian Wells	-	-	-	3	2	2	3	VF	AF	-	VF	-	3	2	-	0
Miami	-	-	1	1	2	3	2	3	VF	-	3	-	AF	VF	-	0
Charleston	-	-	-	other category												0
Rome	-	-	-	-	2	-	VF	AF	2	VF	2	-	-	AF		0
Madrid	na or a. K.			2	1	S.	2	2	HF	S.	AF	-	S.	VF	-	3
Berlin	-	-	-	na or a. K.												0
San Diego	-	-	na or a. K.													0
Cincinnati	na or a. K.			-	-	AF	HF	AF	2	2	-	2	HF	2	2	0
Montreal / Toronto	-	-	2	-	1	AF	S.	VF	AF	2	AF	2	AF	-	-	1
Tokyo	-	-	-	-	1	HF	2	S.	other category							1
Wuhan	not carried out								S.	AF	S.	1	AF	HF	-	2
Zurich	-	-	not carried out													0
Beijing	na or a. K.			-	AF	2	2	HF	F.	1	VF	HF	1	VF	-	0
Moscow	-	-	-	other category												0
Olympic games	n / A		-	not carried out			VF	not carried out			B.	not carried out				0
Fed Cup	-	PO	PO	HF	HF	S.	S.	HF	S.	S.	S.	-	S.	-	-	6th
Tournament participation	5	16	21st	21st	22nd	19th	18th	23	19th	17th	22nd	11	21st	16	5	256
Finals reached	2	6th	1	2	0	8th	2	4th	4th	4th	3	1	5	4th	1	47
Title won	2	4th	1	1	0	6th	2	2	3	3	2	1	5	2	0	34
Hard court wins / defeats	10: 2	30: 8	25:12	18:15	17:17	36:10	29:10	36:15	29:12	25:13	36:16	11: 8	26:13	26:13	12: 4	366: 168
Sand victories / defeats	5: 1	4: 4	8: 5	3: 5	3: 5	13: 2	10: 4	11: 6	5: 4	11: 3	7: 4	1: 1	15: 3	8: 2	0-0	104: 49
Turf wins / defeats	0-0	0-0	0: 2	0: 1	5: 2	11: 1	7: 3	4: 2	9-0	2: 1	3: 3	6: 1	6: 1	3: 1	0-0	56:18
Carpet victories / defeats	0-0	7-0	4: 2	2-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	13: 2
Overall wins / losses	15: 3	41:12	37:21	23:21	25:24	60:13	46:17	51:23	43:16	38:17	46:23	18:10	47:17	37:16	12: 4	539: 237
World ranking points	11	201	630	1087	1748	7370	5085	4775	5966	4220	3485	1653	4630	4776		N / A
Year-end position	773	157	44	62	34	2	8th	6th	4th	6th	11	29	7th	7th		N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

Note : These statistics take into account all results individually, as stated on the WTA page. Only WTA tournaments of the category Tier I (until 2008) and the WTA tournaments of the categories Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 (since 2009) are shown.

Double

competition	2008	2009	2010	2011	Career
Australian Open	-	1	1	2	2
French Open	-	-	2	-	2
Wimbledon	1	-	1	1	1
US Open	1	1	1	-	1

World ranking position at the end of the year

year	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
singles	773	157	44	62	34	2	8th	6th	4th	6th	11	29	7th
Double	-	454	959	379	333	361	532	260	1250	-	265	-	-

Awards

• WTA Player of the Year - 2011
• ITF World Champion - 2011
• Czech athlete of the year - 2011, 2014
• Medal of Merit (2018)

Web links

Commons : Petra Kvitová  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Petra Kvitová (English)
• ITF profile of Petra Kvitová (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Petra Kvitová (English)
• Petra Kvitová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Petra Kvitová's website (English, Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petra Kvitova with a fatigue fracture. In: spox.com. December 4, 2016, accessed December 21, 2016 . 
2. ↑ "Luckily I'm still alive": Kvitova injured after knife attack. In: zeit.de. December 20, 2016, accessed December 21, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} KVITOVA OFF COURT FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS. In: wtatennis.com. December 21, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Petra Kvitova 'fortunate to be alive' after potentially career-threatening knife attack. In: bbc.com. December 20, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
5. ↑ KVITOVA INJURED IN KNIFE ATTACK DURING HOME INVASION. In: wtatennis.com. December 21, 2016, accessed December 21, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Kvitova investigation discontinued. In: spox.com. November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
7. ↑ After knife attack on Petra Kvitova: perpetrator arrested after months of searching. In: spox.com. May 26, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Policie dopadla muže podezřelého for pořezání tenistky Kvitové. In: idnes.cz. May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018 . 
9. ↑ World Champions Women. In: itftennis.com. Retrieved December 13, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Petra Kvitova - Sports Personality of the Year. Retrieved December 25, 2014 .