The Czech Petra Kvittova fought her last professional match at the US Open. The 35 -year -old has had an extremely successful career – and a traumatic experience.
She pressed her lips together and had to fight with her emotions. However, several tears rolled over her cheeks, she simply couldn’t hold her back .. The 1: 6, 0: 6 after only 52 minutes in the 1st round of the US OPE against the French Diane Parry played only a very subordinate role for Petra Kvitova.
It was finally the last professional match of the Czech with the powerful forehand – and her feelings naturally drove carousel. You have “hoped that I could offer you a better show. But it was hard because I knew it could be my last match.” However, it rather looked paralyzed. Kvitova seemed emotionally overwhelmed in this special afternoon in new York.
Longer planned farewell
Even if very few spectators on the Grandeur There were: those who had looked at the unequal game remained to Kvitova with an extremely friendly applause from this matchbut above all to say goodbye to their impressive career. She received a bouquet of flowers and a photo collage from the organizers.
Kvitova is now 35 years old, in the past few weeks and months it has already become very quiet around her. She had just completed nine matches this year. Last year she had not contested any matches because she gave birth to her son in July 2024. It was a farewell planned by a long time, a long and extremely successful career.
930 matches as a professional player
She has been led on the world rankings since 2007 and was once number 2 in the world. She triumphed in 2011 and 2014 in Wimbledonwith the Czech Republic she won six times Fed Cup (today Billie-Jean-King-Cup).
She has won a total of 31 tournaments and can score the proud sum of around 37.5 million euros in prize money alone. Against Parry, she already played her 930th and her last one match.
“I have achieved more than I could have imagined and I am extremely grateful for everything that gave me tennis over the years”Kvitova had already written on social media last June when she announced her career end after the US Open.
Seriously injured by burglars
But also next to the tennis court, Kvitova unintentionally made headlines shortly before Christmas 2016. A perpetrator who spoke out as a craftsman attacked her in her apartment with a knife. She suffered serious injuries to her left hand. The doctors managed to save their fingers in a four -hour operation.
But she recovered from this traumatic experience and fought back to the top of the world after the long, forced competition break. Now it is finally over.
The tennis has them “Taught countless lessons, not only on the square or in the gym, but also in life. Without this wonderful sport and everything he gave me on and off the square, I would never be the one I am today” “she said. What she will do in the future is obviously not yet decided.