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Two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova calls time on tennis career
Gulf Today
|June 20, 2025
PARIS: Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova announced on Thursday that she will be retiring from the professional tennis circuit after this year's US Open.
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The 35-year-old Czech, who is currently ranked down at 572 in the world, reached a career-high ranking of 2 in 2011 when she won the first of her two Wimbledon titles.
She triumphed again in 2014 and went on to reach the final of the Australian Open in 2019.
This week she was handed a wildcard entry for one last outing on the grass courts of south-west London.
"There comes a day that it is time for a new chapter and that time for me has come now," the left-handed Kvitova wrote on social media.
"I therefore wanted to share with you that 2025 is my last season on tour as a professional.
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