{"id":8722,"date":"2025-06-19T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/two-wimbledon-champion-petrakvitova-retires-after-opening-us\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:57:00","slug":"two-wimbledon-champion-petrakvitova-retires-after-opening-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/two-wimbledon-champion-petrakvitova-retires-after-opening-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Wimbledon Champion Petrakvitova retires after opening us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8211; Wimbledon two-time champion Petra Kvitova is set to retire in a few months, the Czech player said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement on social media came the day after Kvitova was given a wild card to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited and look forward to immersing myself in the beauty of playing the championship, Wimbledon again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;m still not entirely sure what the US hard court swing looks like, but I&#8217;m planning on finishing my active playing career at New York&#8217;s US Open later this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kvitova, 35, reached the second-place career-high ranking and supported the Czech Republic in six Fed Cup trophies, now known as the Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Kvitova last played at Wimbledon in 2023 and became a mother for the first time when her son was born in last year&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kvitova returned to the WTA tour held in Austin, Texas in February after 17 months away from the courthouse, and is currently ranked 572nd.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon will begin on June 30th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Wimbledon two-time champion Petra Kvitova is set to retire in a few months, the Czech player said Thursday. The announcement on social media came the day after Kvitova was given a wild card to Wimbledon. \u201cI am excited and look forward to immersing myself in the beauty of playing the championship, Wimbledon again. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[241,188,2710,1177,24,1790],"class_list":{"0":"post-8722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-champion","9":"tag-opening","10":"tag-petrakvitova","11":"tag-retires","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-wimbledon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","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=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}