In early results on the fourth day of the tournament, women’s fourth seed Paula Badosa set up a third-round clash against two-time winner Petra Kvitova.
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The Moscow-born Florida-based 21-year-old gave a masterclass of game management on a windy Court Phillipe Chatrier and will face Polish teenager Iga Swiatek on Saturday
On yet another chilly day in the French capital, seventh seed Kvitova’s superior firepower proved decisive as she posted her fourth successive straight sets victory.
A man who invaded Czech tennis star Petra Kvitova’s home posing as a boiler repairman before stabbing the two-time Grand Slam winner in December 2016 has been jailed for eight years, according to reports from local media.
Two-times Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova told a Czech court on Tuesday how she grabbed the blade of an attacker’s knife and forced it away from her neck, leaving blood everywhere, during an attack at her home in December 2016.
Naomi Osaka, winner of the Australian Open, has jumped to the top of women’s tennis, with her beaten opponent Petra Kvitova rising to second in Monday’s WTA rankings.
Naomi Osaka recovered from a dramatic second-set collapse to defeat Petra Kvitova and be crowned Australian Open champion and the new world number one.
Naomi Osaka overcame nerves and a spirited challenge from double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova to claim the Australian Open title with a 7-6(2) 5-7 6-4 win on Saturday.
Czech Petra Kvitova overcame rain delays to beat defending champion Angelique Kerber 6-4 6-1 on Thursday and reach the Sydney International semi-finals.
Karolina Pliskova became the first woman to advance to the last four of the World Tennis Association finals.
Caroline Wozniacki overcame a mid-match wobble and withstood a barrage of big hitting to get her WTA Finals title defence back on track at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Tuesday.
Ranked 183 after just three tournaments back, the seven-time champion will go into Wimbledon as the 25th seed, the seeding committee having deviated from the WTA ranking list, an exception because she is coming back after maternity leave.
The Czech risked crashing out in the hands of little-known Paraguayan Veronica Royg before she rallied to a 3-6 6-1 7-5 win.
The 28-year-old Czech came into Indian Wells having won the last two tournaments she played in
She lost to her younger sister Serena Williams at the Australian Open and to Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon.
While her talk on arrival at Edgbaston was purely about her delight to be playing again, she clearly has bigger goals now.
The Czech world No.11 suffered injuries to the fingers on her left hand in the attack on Tuesday morning, which occurred at her apartment
The two-time Wimbledon champion sustained the injury to tendons in her left hand – her dominant hand in tennis – during the incident which occurred on Tuesday morning