Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova, former world number 2, 35 years old, announced on social networks on Thursday that he will withdraw from the sports activity over a few months, AFP reports. “2025 will be my last professional season”,
he transmitted it.
Petra Kvitova returned to tennis after becoming a mother. Photo Getty Images
Kvitova, a champion at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, is not yet completely sure what tournaments will play after the Grand Slam competition in London (June 30 – July 13), where it will be registered directly on the main panel, despite the 572 place in the WTA standings, thanks to a Wild Card from the organizers. “My intention is to end my career at the US Open” (August 24 – September 7), said Kvitova, which reached the quarterfinals in New York in 2015 and 2017.
Kvitova, the world champion in 2011
Six times winner of Billie Jean King Cup/ Fed Cup with the Czech, double semi -finalist at Roland Garros (2012, 2020) and finalist at the Australian Open in 2019, the left player has 31 titles to Simple, from Hobart in 2009 to Berlin in 2023. 1,000, the most prestigious in world tennis after the four Grand Slam tournaments.
Kvitova, in his glory times. Photo x
With three titles at the WTA 1,000 tournament in Madrid on the slag (2011, 2015, 2018), the Czech was the most titled player in the capital of Spain until the spring of this year, when it was equal to Belarusa Arina Sabalenka. After missing land for more than a year to give birth to her first child, Kvitova returned to the circuit in February, at the WTA 250 tournament in Austin (USA). Since then, she has won a single match, in May, in the first round of the WTA 1,000 tournament.
