US Open marks the end of Petra Kvitova’s career

This year's US Open brings an extremity to an awesome vocation successful tennis. Petra Kvitova, the 35-year-old Czech, has decided to play her last lucifer successful New York. A two-time Wimbledon champion, parent and long-time prima of women's tennis, Kvitova ne'er reached the No. 1 ranking successful the world, but she has near an indelible mark.

"I had the talent, but my quality prevented maine from winning more," she told the Guardian. "Maybe I should person trained more, but if I had done that, it mightiness person killed my talent."

In summation to Wimbledon, Kvitova also played successful the last of the 2019 Australian Open.

"Naomi Osaka was fantastic successful the 3rd set. What could I person done? What I miss astir is not being No. 1. I would person loved to person that. But that's however it is. I wouldn't person had a amended beingness if I had been No. 1," she said.

Aa combat that overcame each obstacles

Perhaps the 35-year-old tennis player's top triumph came astir a decennary agone erstwhile a burglar attacked Kvitova with a weapon successful her apartment. Doctors estimated that she had lone a 10 percent accidental of playing tennis again. Still, she managed to triumph 12 much titles, play the last successful Melbourne, instrumentality to fig 2 successful the satellite rankings and beryllium precise adjacent to the top.

- I knew I was a large combatant connected the court, and past I realized that I was a large combatant disconnected it excessively - she points out. - I had nightmares, I cried, it wasn't easy. The biggest question was whether I would beryllium capable to play tennis again. And I could. It was my 2nd career. And it was fantastic.

Petra says the clip to discontinue has come.

- I'm wholly ready. I inactive emotion tennis, but everything other astir it - waiting for training, waiting for transport to the tournament, waiting for matches - is excessively tiring. When you go a mother, everything changes completely. I simply privation to walk much clip with my lad - concluded Kvitova.