Two-time Wimbledon champion to retire nine years on from horror knife attack - The Mirror

Tennis star announces retirement nine years after horror knife attack

Petra Kvitova has announced she will retire after the US Open, nine years on from her horror knife attack that changed her life.The 35-year-old won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, just a few years before the knife attack that would change her career.In December 2016, the Czech player was shockingly attacked in her own home, where she suffered a severe injury in her left hand that needed urgent surgery to save her career. She went on to win 12 titles…

Two-time Wimbledon champion to retire nine years on from horror knife attack - The Mirror

Petra Kvitova will go down as one of the top players of her generation after winning two Grand Slams in a competitive landscape - and deserves huge credit for battling on in her career despite being attacked by a knifeman in a harrowing incident back in 2016

Two-time Wimbledon champion retiring after knife attack left irreversible damage

PETRA KVITOVA is set to retire after the US Open – nine years on from the horror knife attack that left her career hanging in the balance.Two-time f