{"id":10311,"date":"2025-07-02T02:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/two-time-champion-petra-kvitova-says-goodbye-to-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:02:51","slug":"two-time-champion-petra-kvitova-says-goodbye-to-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/two-time-champion-petra-kvitova-says-goodbye-to-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time champion Petra Kvitova says goodbye to Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8211; Wimbledon two-time champion Petra Kvitova said goodbye to his favorite Grand Slam tournament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Czech player, who won the All-England Club in 2011 and 2014, is scheduled to leave the tour after the US Open, which will end in September.<\/p>\n<p>Her Wimbledon farewell lost US 10th seed Emma Navarro 6-3, 6-1 in the first court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This place holds the best memories I can hope for,&#8221; the emotional Kvitova said in an on-court interview that is usually given to match winners. \u201cI never dreamed of winning Wimbledon, I won twice, which is very special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely miss Wimbledon,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I miss tennis, I miss your fans. But I&#8217;m ready for the next chapter of my life, and I can&#8217;t wait to return as a member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kvitova, who accepted the wild card invitation, missed last year&#8217;s tournament while on maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro, 24, said Kvitova is &#8220;an incredible player and obviously won this tournament twice before returning with a child.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Kvitova defeated Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4 in the final. Three years later, Kvitova won his second trophy, beating Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 in the title match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s the best tournament in the world,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She is sure the US will be one of the last.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s true,&#8221; Kvitova said. &#8220;Motivation, that&#8217;s different from before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Wimbledon two-time champion Petra Kvitova said goodbye to his favorite Grand Slam tournament on Tuesday. The 35-year-old Czech player, who won the All-England Club in 2011 and 2014, is scheduled to leave the tour after the US Open, which will end in September. Her Wimbledon farewell lost US 10th seed Emma Navarro 6-3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[241,3247,2681,2680,24,3246,1790],"class_list":{"0":"post-10311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-champion","9":"tag-goodbye","10":"tag-kvitova","11":"tag-petra","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-twotime","14":"tag-wimbledon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}