Petra Kvitova is a tennis player from the Czech Republic. Perta was born on 8 March 1990 in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia. Her current and career high ranking is World No. 8, which she achieved on 6 June 2011. Kvitová has won four singles titles, including the 2011 Mutua Madrid Open. She will face Maria Sharapova in [...]
Maria Sharapova survived some shaky serving (13 double faults) by being overpowering from the baseline, and she beat unseeded German Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-3 in 1 hour, 27 minutes in a Wimbledon semifinal. Sharapova, seeded fifth, won Wimbledon tournament in 2004, but she hasn’t been past the semifinals since 2006 and seemed to be in [...]
Chair umpire Graeme Jones was mangling the name of German tennis player Julia Goerges at Wimbledon on Thursday, mispronouncing her name in various ways but especially in saying her last name as “gorgeous.” It’s a joke Goerges has heard many times before. “Julia Gorgeous” they call her, partially because she’s attractive but mostly because of [...]