"Petra Kvitová Petra Kvitová (; born 8 March 1990) is a Czech professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed groundstrokes and variety, Kvitová turned professional in 2006 and has won 25 career singles titles, two of which are Grand Slam titles, the Wimbledon Championships in 2011 and in 2014. She also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her career-high ranking of world No. 2 was reached on 31 October 2011 and as of 5 November 2018, she is ranked world No. 7 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). As such, Kvitová is currently the top-ranked Czech"
"won her second and most recent Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships, defeating Eugenie Bouchard in the final. In 2015, Kvitová achieved the feat of making the quarterfinals at all four Grand Slams after advancing to her first quarterfinal at the US Open, where she lost to eventual champion Flavia Pennetta. In 2016, she won the WTA Elite Trophy in her first appearance at the tournament, thus becoming the first player ever to win both categories of year-ending championships on debut. Petra Kvitová was born to Jiří Kvita, a school teacher and Pavla Kvitová in Bílovec, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechoslovakia"
"Petra Kvitová were unsuccessful in their 2011 title defences, both being defeated by the eventual champions: Djokovic was defeated by Roger Federer in the semifinals, and Kvitová lost to Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. In four sets, Federer defeated Andy Murray to win a record-equalling seven Wimbledon titles, while Murray became the first British male player to reach a Wimbledon singles final in the Open era. Williams defeated first-time Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwańska in three sets to equal her sister Venus in winning five Wimbledon titles. Both Federer and Williams were more than 30 years old at the time of"
"held one week later than in previous seasons, giving a three-week gap from the end of the 2015 French Open. The change, announced in 2012, is intended to provide players more time for recuperation and preparatory grass-court tournaments. Novak Djokovic of Serbia won his third Wimbledon title in men's singles, defending his championship from 2014. Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic was the defending champion in women's singles, but she lost to Jelena Janković in the third round. Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon and 21st major title, defeating first-time finalist Garbiñe Muguruza in the final, 6–4, 6–4. She also"
"2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams. Serena Williams defeated Agnieszka Radwańska in the final, 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Yaroslava Shvedova became the first player in the Open Era to win a 'golden set' at Wimbledon, winning the first set of her 6–0, 6–4 victory over 2012 French Open runner-up Sara Errani in the third round without dropping a single point. Sabine Lisicki defeated the reigning French Open champion for her third straight Wimbledon. She defeated"
"2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Marion Bartoli was the reigning champion, but retired from professional tennis in August 2013. 2011 champion Petra Kvitová defeated Eugenie Bouchard in the final in straight sets, 6–3, 6–0 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. The final lasted only 55 minutes, the fifth-shortest women's singles final in Wimbledon history in terms of time elapsed. Bouchard had not lost a set prior to the final and was the betting favorite to win. Like the previous major, the 2014 Wimbledon Championships was marked by two big upsets. The top two"
"defending champion in the men's singles, but lost to Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals. Marion Bartoli was the reigning champion in the women's singles; however, her retirement from the sport following her victory meant that she did not return to defend her title. As a result, the opening Ladies' Singles match on Centre Court on the second day of the tournament – which is traditionally played by the defending champion – was played by Bartoli's opponent in the 2013 final, runner-up Sabine Lisicki. The men and women's singles titles were won by Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitová respectively. Both players"
"the semifinals to Ons Jabeur from Tunisia with 3–6 and 2–6 score. At Wimbledon she lost in the quarterfinals to Sachie Ishizu of Japan 1–6 and 2–6 and at the last junior Grand Slam of the year, the US Open she lost in the second round also to Ons Jabeur, 3–6 and 3–6. In 2011, she lost the Wimbledon junior singles final to Ashleigh Barty of Australia 5–7, 6–7(3); in the junior doubles she reached the semifinal stage. Irina Khromacheva Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva (; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia. Her highest WTA singles ranking"
"Květa Peschke Květoslava Peschke, (née Hrdličková; born 9 July 1975) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Peschke plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet. At 2011 Wimbledon, Peschke claimed her first Grand Slam doubles title with Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik. Peschke became the first Czech player to win the Wimbledon women's doubles title since Jana Novotná in 1998. Peschke and Srebotnik also took over world No. 1 ranking in doubles and they won a WTA Award as 'Doubles Team of the Year' in November 2011."
"Heather Watson Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player and a Wimbledon mixed doubles champion. She is a former British No. 1 and current British No. 2 behind Johanna Konta She won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Henri Kontinen. In October 2012, Watson won her first WTA singles title at the Japan Open, becoming the first British female to win a WTA singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988. In her junior career, Watson won the US Open and gold at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. She reached No."
"entered the Wimbledon Championships as a heavy favourite, having won her maiden Grand Slam title here in 2011. After winning the first two rounds against Andrea Hlaváčková and Mona Barthel comfortably, Kvitová faced former champion Venus Williams in the third round. Similar to their Doha encounter, Kvitová was pushed to a third set. The decider featured both players playing well, with the Czech ultimately sailing through. Kvitová secured her berth in the last eight by defeating Peng Shuai in the following round. She then beat compatriots Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová and Šafářová in the quarterfinals and semifinals respectively. In the final, Kvitová"
"ten for the first time, by virtue of winning the Mutua Madrid Open. This was followed by a breakthrough first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, where she defeated Maria Sharapova in the final to become the first Czech player since Jana Novotná to win a title at this level, and the prestigious 2011 WTA Tour Championships at the end of the season. In twelve months, Kvitová had gone from World No. 34 at the end of 2010 to achieving a career high rank of No. 2 at the end of 2011. Kotyza has overseen all but one of Kvitová's seventeen"
"player and the second highest-ranked left-handed player, behind Angelique Kerber. Kvitová first gained notice upon defeating then-world No. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round of the 2009 US Open. This was followed by her first Grand Slam semifinal appearance at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships where she came up short to eventual champion Serena Williams. Then, during her breakthrough season in 2011, Kvitová won her first Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships, defeating Maria Sharapova in the final, thus becoming the first player of either gender born in the 1990s to win a Grand Slam tournament title. She also"
"title in Wuhan. She also won the WTA Elite Trophy on debut, thus becoming the first player to win both categories of year-ending championships on debut, having won the WTA Finals in 2011 on debut. She ended 2016 as world No. 11. Highlights of Kvitová's 2017 season include winning the title in Birmingham, her first title on grass outside of Wimbledon, and a quarterfinal appearance at the US Open. She finished 2017 as world No. 29. In 2018, Kvitová won titles in back-to-back tournament appearances, namely the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy and the Qatar Total Open. On clay, she won"
"Maria Sharapova in the fourth round, as well as beating Li Na in 2011 and Svetlana Kuznetsova 2009. She missed the 2010 Championships due to injury. Victoria Azarenka regained the WTA No. 1 ranking by reaching the quarterfinals after Sharapova failed to defend her finalist points from 2011. Four of the top five seeds (with the exception of Kvitová) were in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament. Maria Sharapova ""(Fourth round)"" 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams. Serena Williams defeated Agnieszka"
"clothing was waived to allow players to wear Olympic national team clothing, and London 2012 bunting also mixed with the traditional Wimbledon green. Elena Dementieva and Rafael Nadal were the reigning champions, neither of whom defended their titles. Dementieva had retired from professional tennis in 2010, while Nadal withdrew due to tendinitis. In the women's singles tournament, Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova while losing only one game in the final for the gold medal and her sixth major event win at Wimbledon, having won the ladies' singles tournament at The Championships less than three weeks earlier as well as in"
"the final of the $100.000 ITF event in Torhout, losing to Croatia's Karolina Šprem in straight-sets. Viktoriya has suffered some shoulder problems throughout her young career which have stalled her progression on the main WTA tour. After having over a year off-tour, Kutuzova used her protected ranking to enter her first big event, the 2011 Sparta Prague Open, where she lost to Katarzyna Piter in round one. She also entered Roland Garros using her protected ranking, but was beaten by Chanelle Scheepers in the first round. Viktoriya Kutuzova Viktoriya Kutuzova (, born 19 August 1988) is a former female tennis"
"players in 1948. He was inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2016. Yvon Petra Yvon Petra (; 8 March 1916 – 12 September 1984) was a French male tennis player. He was born in Cholon, French Indochina. He is best remembered as the last Frenchman to win the Wimbledon championships men's singles title (in 1946), beating Geoff Brown in five sets in the final. In doubles he won the French championships twice, in 1938 with Bernard Destremau, defeating the best pair in the world Budge-Mako, and in 1946 with Marcel Bernard. In 1938 he won the singles and"
"game to take the first set 6–3. The second set saw Kvitová lose only three points on serve as she bagelled Bouchard 6–0. Only 10 other Wimbledon women singles champions lost ""fewer games in the final than Kvitova did"". The victory gave Kvitová her second Wimbledon title and second Grand Slam title overall. After the tournament, Bouchard improved to a career-high World No. 7 in the WTA rankings, surpassing Carling Bassett-Seguso's record of being the highest-ranked Canadian woman of all-time, while Kvitová moved up to World No. 4. Serena Williams ""(Third round)"" 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Marion Bartoli"
"of the most victorious doubles team in 2011. The pair won in Auckland, Doha, Carlsbad, Eastbourne and Beijing, they won their first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, defeating Sabine Lisicki and Samantha Stosur in the final. She won two doubles titles in 2012: Sydney with Srebotnik and Linz with Anna-Lena Grönefeld. Květa Peschke Květoslava Peschke, (née Hrdličková; born 9 July 1975) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Peschke plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet. At 2011 Wimbledon, Peschke claimed her first Grand Slam"
"2011 began with a title in Brisbane and her first quarterfinal appearance at the Australian Open, where she lost in straight sets to Vera Zvonareva. In February, she won her maiden Premier-level title at the Open GDF Suez, prevailing over Kim Clijsters in the final. In May, Kvitová won her first Premier Mandatory title at the Mutua Madrid Open, defeating Victoria Azarenka in the final. As a result, she cracked the top ten rankings for the first time in her career, rising to world No. 10. In July, Kvitová won her first Grand Slam singles title at the Wimbledon Championships,"
"Maria Sharapova Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player of Belarusian descent. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having won silver in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Sharapova became the world No. 1 for the first"
"consisted of anything from greatest character to best final. In addition the bank also teamed up with the Sports Technology Institute at Loughborough University; to predict how tennis would develop over the next 25 years up to 2036; the 150th Wimbledon and 100 years since Fred Perry, the last British male winner of the championships, won. Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament. The total prize money for 2011 championships was £14,600,000. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned £1,100,000. Novak Djokovic def. Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–3 Petra"
"player of either gender to win an Olympic medal in the singles discipline since Jana Novotná in 1996. Kvitová was the two-time defending champion in New Haven but saw her title defence come to an end in the semifinals in the hands of Radwańska. As the 14th seed at the US Open, where for the first time since the 2011 Australian Open, Kvitová is not a top 10 seed at a Grand Slam tournament, she reached the round of 16 but lost to eventual champion Kerber in straight sets. The loss meant Kvitová has failed to make a single Grand"
"the Canary Islands. The following month, following good progress in her recovery, she provisionally put her name down for the French Open. In early May, more than four months into recovery, it was revealed that Kvitová had returned to the practice courts. On 23 May 2017, Kvitová announced that she would play the Wimbledon Championships the following month, and would make a last-minute decision, later in the week, on whether to compete at the French Open. Kvitová subsequently confirmed her participation at the latter event, thus marking her return to competition where she defeated American Julia Boserup in her opening"
"they won in an epic three sets, 6–4 3–6 13–11. Stoop and Robson went on to lose to Grand Slam champions Amélie Mauresmo and Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round. After Wimbledon, Stoop reached one more ITF quarterfinal and won her second title, beating Katie O'Brien in an all-British final at the $25,000 event in Vigo, Spain. Georgie Gent Georgina Gent ""(formerly Stoop)"" (born 13 January 1988) is an English, AEGON Award-winning former professional tennis player who was coached by Damien Roberts. She won two ITF singles titles, two ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world"
"2011 Petra Kvitová tennis season The 2011 Petra Kvitová tennis season officially began at the 2011 Brisbane International, the first of two simultaneous events which opened the official 2011 season. Kvitová began her season at the 2011 Brisbane International, as an unseeded player. She upset third seed Nadia Petrova in the first round, then followed it up with wins over Ksenia Pervak, Dominika Cibulková and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach her first final since 2009, where she faced Andrea Petkovic of Germany. Kvitová won in straight sets to win only her second career title and first in almost two years. As"
"Muguruza became the first Spanish woman to make the Wimbledon final since Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in 1996. Muguruza won the title two years later. This tournament is notable for being the first grand slam main draw appearance of 2017 French Open champion Jeļena Ostapenko. 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but was defeated by Jelena Janković in the third round. Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon and 21st major title, becoming the oldest woman to win a major singles title in the Open Era. By defeating first-time finalist Garbiñe Muguruza, Serena also achieved her"
"of qualifying to Sandra Klösel. She also lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2008 Australian Open to Nika Ožegović. Her most significant result before 2011 came at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, where Kvitová, then ranked world No. 62, reached the semifinals, having never previously won a professional match on grass. She defeated, in order, Sorana Cîrstea, 2008 semi-finalist Zheng Jie, 2009 quarter-finalist Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki and qualifier Kaia Kanepi before being defeated by world number one, defending and eventual champion Serena Williams in the semi-finals. Kvitová started to regularly participate on the WTA Tour in 2008."
"two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová. Pennetta won the match in three sets, after having trailed 1–3 in the second set, to advance to her second US Open semifinal. She then defeated 2nd seed Simona Halep in straight sets to advance to her first Grand Slam final. Pennetta faced fellow-countrywoman Roberta Vinci in the first-ever all-Italian Grand Slam final in the Open Era. Pennetta won the match in straight sets, claiming her first ever US Open title and her first Grand Slam title. During her acceptance speech she announced her retirement. In an interview with Eurosport after the match, Pennetta clarified"
"in 2011. The following week in Madrid, 10th-seeded Kvitová breezed through to her second crown in two weeks and the 24th of her career. En route to the final, she defeated Lesia Tsurenko, Monica Puig, Anett Kontaveit, Daria Kasatkina and Karolína Plíšková. She then fought through a tough three-setter to see off Kiki Bertens to lift the trophy for the third time in her career, becoming the first woman to do so. At the French Open, Kvitová crashed out in the third round, falling to 25th seed Kontaveit in straight sets. Starting the grass court season in Birmingham where she"
"singles and doubles discipline respectively. Kvitová's lone Grand Slam tournament as a junior came at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. In singles, eighth-seeded Kvitová advanced to the round of 16 after beating Jocelyn Rae and Malena Gordo before losing to eventual semifinalist Katarzyna Piter in straight sets. In doubles, she played alongside fellow Czech Kateřina Vaňková but they fell at the first hurdle to Mariana Duque Mariño and Michelle Larcher de Brito. Kvitová first attempted to qualify for her first WTA tournament at the 2007 ECM Prague Open, but she lost in the second round of qualifying to Ekaterina Ivanova. She"
"the Czech Republic Fed Cup team for its quarter-final against Slovakia. Kvitová won both of her rubbers against Dominika Cibulková and Daniela Hantuchová; her victory over the latter ensured the Czech Republic would progress through to the semi-finals. Following the Fed Cup quarter-finals, Kvitová participated at the 2011 Open GDF Suez, where she was seeded fourth. After surviving three-setters against fellow Czech Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová and Yanina Wickmayer in earlier rounds, she reached the final, upsetting soon-to-be World No. 1 Kim Clijsters in straight sets to win her second title for the year. Kvitová then made an early exit from her"