Petra Kvitova: Latest News

PARIS – The Latest from the French Open (all times local):___12:25 p.m.Polish teenager Iga Swiatek and Argentine qualifier Nadia Podoroska will open play in the main stadium at the French Open.The first women’s semifinal match is scheduled to start at 3 p.m.

Barbora Krejcikova made history on Saturday July 13 by becoming the fifth Czech woman to win Wimbledon, defeating Italian hopeful Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. Barbora now joins the ranks of her late mentor Jana Novotna, two-time champion Petra Kvitova and Vondrousova as Czech women who have won Wimbledon, which saw an array of celebrities attend on the eleventh day.This is her second career win, having previously won Roland Garros in 2021. She opened up emotionally about being guided by fellow Czech Jan, who won Wimbledon in 1998 and tragically passed away from cancer in 2017 at the age of just 49.

PARIS – The rain finally held off at the French Open, so Petra Kvitova rained down aces instead.Six of them, taking her tournament-leading tally to 24, as the two-time Wimbledon champion reached her first semifinal at Roland Garros since 2012 and first at any Grand Slam since her run to the final of the 2019 Australian Open.On the other end of the seventh-seeded Czech player’s 6-3, 6-3 victory was Laura Siegemund. The first set of the unseeded German's first Grand Slam quarterfinal flashed by in a blur of left-handed serves that she often couldn't reach or capitalize on and an array of powerful groundstrokes and feathered volleys she had no answer to.Kvitova hit all six of her aces in that first set and never faced a break point.

PARIS – The Latest from the French Open (all times local):___12:20 p.m.Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is facing unseeded Laura Siegemund in the French Open quarterfinals as play gets underway at Roland Garros with a few rays of sunshine peeking through the clouds.Kvitova broke Siegemund's serve to take a 3-1 lead in the opening set.Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin will face unseeded Danielle Collins in an all-American matchup later. Collins leads the head-to-head series against the fourth-seeded Kenin 3-0.

PARIS – Petra Kvitova owns two Wimbledon titles, so making it to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the 13th time should not necessarily feel like a big deal to her.Ah, but this was different. Which is why Kvitova’s emotions swelled and her eyes watered after she beat Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-4 on Monday at the French Open, where she hadn’t reached the round of eight since 2012.

PARIS – Petra Kvitova stood wide-eyed and perfectly still, scarcely believing she was through to her first French Open quarterfinal in eight years after winning 6-2, 6-4 against Zhang Shuai of China on Monday.When the chair umpire climbed down and pointed to the mark confirming her two-handed backhand had landed just in, she released her emotions. The seventh-seeded Czech player looked up in the air, then blew kisses and waved to the small crowd gathered on Court Philippe Chatrier, the tournament's main stadium."Yeah, I got a bit emotional last two points of my match," she said.

PARIS – The Latest from the French Open (all times local):___11:30 a.m.The new roof over Court Philippe Chatrier is again proving its worth on Day 2 of the French Open.The court is hosting the only play as rain thwarted the start of all other matches at Roland Garros. Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and 118th-ranked Oceane Dodin were dry for their first-round match with Chatrier’s retractable roof deployed from the outset.No other matches started as scheduled on 12 other courts with rain falling and forecasters predicting dryer weather for the afternoon.