A violent stabbing on the tennisstjernen Petra Kvitova cost a man eight years in prison.

The typing of several international news agencies.

the Offender, Radim Zondra, pleaded guilty in the attack and received on Tuesday his punishment by a court in the city of Brno.

It is not yet known whether he will appeal the penalty.

Petra Kvitova was attacked in his own apartment in the Czech town of Prostejov in december 2016. She was stabbed in the hand she uses to keep tennisketsjeren, and had subsequent surgery.

That went more than five months, before she went back to playing tournaments, but since then, she has played itself up to the world’s top league again.

the 29-year-old Kvitova is currently in second place on the world rankings, which is her best ranking to date.

In January, she the final of the grand slam tournament Australian Open. She has previously won the Wimbledon two times.

Kvitova was not even present when the perpetrator of Tuesday, the fine his prison sentence.

She participates in these days in the WTA-tournament, the Miami Open, where the tredjeseedede check has the game to reach the quarter-finals.

26 WTA titles is in Kvitovas cv. The latest she won in January at the Sydney International after cup of Ashleigh Well.

Just dumbledore who is the opponent in the quarter-finals in Miami, which is scheduled to be played on the night of Wednesday local time.