DOHA/WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Victoria Azarenka remained undefeated (4-0) against World No. 5 and top seed Elina Svitolina, but this time it wasn’t easy. The two-time Doha champion fought through physical pain in her back the entire […]
WASHINGTON, October 8, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) For a Grand Slam tournament with no “night sessions,” this year’s French Open sure has featured a lot of tennis after dark. Fortunately, some of the best tennis at Roland Garros is still […]
WASHINGTON, October 6, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) If you were preoccupied or blinked, you might have missed Petra Kvitova‘s 6-2, 6-4 defeat of China’s Zhang Shuai at Roland Garros on Monday, which lifted the Czech star into the quarterfinal round of […]
WASHINGTON, October 2, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Women’s seventh seed Petra Kvitova achieved her 25th career match-win at Roland Garros on Thursday. Her quick and efficient, 84-minute 6-3, 6-3 victory over Italy’s 94th-ranked Jasmine Paolini in the first match of […]
DOHA, February 29, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Petra Kvitova lost to Ashleigh Barty four times in the past year after she had dominated their head-to-head series by winning the first four times, including a quarterfinal round victory en route to the […]
TORONTO, August 2, 2019 (Tennis Canada Press Release) Tennis Canada announced on Friday that Petra Kvitova has withdrawn from Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Toronto due to injury. The two-time Wimbledon champion was hoping to repeat the glory […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 The Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova, seeded 6th, has withdrawn from the Roland-Garros tournament with a left forearm injury. Kvitova, who was scheduled to meet Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in the first round, was replaced by the Slovenian lucky loser Kaja […]
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