After defeating Dinara Safina, the world No. 1 at the time, in the third round of the 2009 US Open, Petra Kvitová first came to public attention. The 2010 Wimbledon Championships saw her make her first Grand Slam semifinal appearance after that, however, she lost to eventual winner Serena Williams.
Then, in 2011, during her breakthrough season, Kvitova won her first Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships by defeating Maria Sharapova in the final. She did this to become the first athlete (of either gender) born in the 1990s to win a Grand Slam tournament title. Until Garbie Muguruza won the French Open in 2016, no other player from that generation had won a Grand Slam singles title. She won the WTA Championships at the end of the campaign to become
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Adam Pavlásek and subsequently Radek Tpánek, both Czech tennis players, were romantically involved with Kvitová in the past.
In June 2014, she then started dating Radek Meidl, a Czech hockey player. The couple’s engagement was formally confirmed by the Czech media in December 2015. Meidl and Kvitová subsequently corroborated the information.
In May 2016, the couple divorced. Since the beginning of the summer of 2021, Kvitová has started visiting her coach Ji Vank.
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