Two-time winner Petra Kvitova is ready to return to Wimbledon.
This wouldn’t seem odd for a tennis player, particularly one who had captured the title there twice, in 2011 and 2014.
Kvitova’s case is different.
She was attacked in her home in the Czech city of Prostejov in December 2016. The intruder stabbed Kvitova’s left hand— bad news for a left-hander.
It took four hours for doctors to repair the damage. No one knew how long it would take to heal.
The 26-year-old Czech player was determined to return to the sport.
“I have no choice but to look ahead, and not back, to see how everything will develop,” she said after the attack. It does not really matter to me how long it will take to play again, whether it is three months, six months, a year or however long. Certainly I want to return one day and I will do everything possible to do so,” she said.
Kvitova has recovered completely. She might even be ready for the May 28 start of the French Open.
