Petra Kvitova is returning to Wimbledon after the 2011 and 2014 champion was awarded a wild card Wednesday for this yr’s match.
Kvitova, 35, final performed on the grass-court Grand Slam match in 2023. She turned a mom for the primary time when her son was born throughout final yr’s Wimbledon match.
She made her return to the WTA Tour in Austin, Texas, in February after 17 months away from the courtroom and is at the moment ranked 572nd. Kvitova, a former world No. 2, misplaced within the first spherical of a WTA 500 occasion on grass at Queen’s Membership earlier this month.
Kvitova, from the Czech Republic, was the one non-British participant to get a singles wild card to the primary draw Wednesday.
The opposite seven gamers with wild playing cards for the ladies’s draw embody British gamers Heather Watson, Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage, whereas Dan Evans is amongst seven British gamers given a wild card for the boys’s draw. Another males’s wild card is because of be introduced “sooner or later,” organizers stated.
The Related Press and Reuters contributed to this report.