Tennis by the End of 2016 was Petra Kvitova in her apartment stabbed by a burglar. The Czech hit taking seriously wounded in her left hand – her career was possibly over. But Kvitova fought back. Tomorrow she in the final of the Australian Open and she can be the new number one with the ladies.
december 20, 2016. The day when the tennis world was rocked by the ‘mesincident’ at the house Kvitova, of the Czech republic Prostejov. The double winner of Wimbledon, was a violent burglar on the floor, after which Kvitova with a knife wounded was on her left hand. The situation was not life-threatening, but Kvitova had hours of surgery. “I am shocked, happy that I’m alive,” sounded at the time.
The Czech was subsequently almost a half a year on the side. Moment it seemed that her career is in danger, but Kvitova absolutely wanted to return. With success. Tomorrow she in the final of the Australian Open, her opponent: the Japanese Naomi Osaka. “I never thought that I here still on this level would be able to play,” says Kvitova. And if they win, they even have the new number one in the world.