Petra Kvitova was born March 8, 1990; age 24 years) is a professional tennis player from the Republic of Czech. On July 4, 2011 he was rated 7 world.
TOURNAMENT INFO: Wimbledon Championships Played: 7 Events Entered: Ladies' Singles Best Singles Performance: Champion (2011, 2014) Best Doubles Performance: 1st Round (2008, 2010, 2011
Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed shots and variety, she has won fourteen career singles titles including two Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 2 in October 2011, and is currently ranked no. 4 as of 24 November 2014.
During her breakthrough season of 2011, Kvitová won her first Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first and currently the only Grand Slam event winner of either gender born in the 1990s. She also won the 2011 WTA Tour Championships, and helped lead the Czech Republic to victory in the Fed Cup final.
Kvitová claimed her second Major title at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. She was also a semifinalist at the 2012 Australian Open and the 2012 French Open.
Kvitová began 2008 by upsetting Anabel Medina Garrigues in France and former world no. 1 Venus Williams in Memphis, reaching the second rounds of both tournaments.[8] She reached the fourth round of her first Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, in which she lost to Kaia Kanepi in three sets, having defeated Akiko Morigami, Samantha Stosur and then-World No. 12 Ágnes Szávay en route. She advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2008 Zurich Open as a qualifier, thus placing her in the top 50 for the first time.
Kvitová won her first career title in the 2009 Moorilla Hobart International, defeating Alona Bondarenko, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Virginie Razzano, and Iveta Benešová. After suffering consecutive first-round losses in the Australian Open (to Victoria Azarenka), the Open GDF Suez, and Dubai, she reached the third round in Indian Wells, losing to eventual champion Vera Zvonareva. She withdrew from the 2009 French Open due to an ankle injury and lost in the first round of Wimbledon. At the 2009 US Open, she defeated then-world no. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round in three sets, before losing to eventual semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer in the fourth round. Kvitová was ranked 71 places lower than Safina at the time. At the Generali Ladies Linz, Kvitová reached her second final of the year, losing in straight sets to Wickmayer.
She reached the semifinals of the 2010 Cellular South Cup, and lost to eventual champion Maria Sharapova. She went on to reach the semifinals of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Sorana Cîrstea, Zheng Jie, Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki, and Kaia Kanepi, before losing to then-world no. 1, defending and eventual champion Serena Williams, in straight sets. She was then guaranteed to reach the top 30 for the first time. Following Wimbledon, she suffered five consecutive first round defeats in her next five tournaments before breaking a six-match losing streak at the 2010 US Open, when she defeated Lucie Hradecká, and Elena Baltacha, before losing to defending and eventual champion Kim Clijsters in the third round; having led 3–0 in the first set, Kvitová lost the next twelve games in a row.
Petra kicked off her 2015 campaign at the 2015 Shenzhen Open as the second seed behind world no. 3 Simona Halep. She won her opening match against China's Duan Yingying, overcoming her opponent in straight sets. She next faces Serb Bojana Jovanovski. Her next scheduled tournaments are the 2015 Apia International Sydney and the Australian Open.
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