STUTTGART - China's Li Na has admitted she has one eye on a brand new sports car, the winner's prize at Stuttgart's WTA tournament, as she prepares to face Petra Kvitova in Friday's quarter-finals. Second-seed Li, who reached January's Australian Open final, breezed through Thursday's second-round ...

PRAGUE Holders Czech Republic on Wednesday named a five-member squad led by world number eight Petra Kvitova for their Fed Cup semi-final tie against Italy on clay in Palermo on April 20-21.  Besides Kvitova, team captain Petr Pala has called up world number 21 KlaraZakopalova and 25th-ranked ...

SYDNEY  - World number eight Petra Kvitova’s Australian Open preparations were dealt another blow Sunday when she was trounced in straight sets at the Sydney International by Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova. Fifth-seed Czech Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, continued her form ...

PRAGUE  - The Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova insisted Wednesday she would beat a cold in time to face Serbia in the Fed Cup final in Prague next weekend with eyes on defending the trophy.The 22-year-old world number eight led the Czechs to a victory over Russia in last year’s ...

BEIJING (AFP) - World number five Petra Kvitova suffered her second early exit in just over a week Monday as she crashed out of the China Open's round two at the hands of Carla Suarez Navarro.Last year's Wimbledon champion lost 6-3, 6-2 to the Spanish player ranked 46th in the world, after also ...

PARIS Czech Petra Kvitova has strengthened her position in the top five of the WTA world rankings following her triumph in the New Haven Open at the weekend, as Victoria Azarenka of Belarus remains in top spot. Kvitova won the New Haven title thanks to a 7-6 (11/9), 7-5 final victory against Maria ...

MONTREAL - Petra Kvitova overcame a mid-match slump to claim her first title of the season with a 7-5 2-6 6-3 victory over China’s Li Na in the Montreal Cup on Monday.In an entertaining but erratic encounter between two former major winners, the fifth seed’s first tournament win since ...

PERTH  - World number two Petra Kvitova continued her imposing start to the year to give the Czech Republic the lead in the Hopman Cup final against France in Western Australia on Saturday.Unbeaten in her three previous singles matches in Perth, including beating world number one Caroline ...

PERTH  - World number two Petra Kvitova made a perfect start to 2012 as the top-seeded Czech Republic saw off Bulgaria at the mixed teams Hopman Cup in Australia on Monday.Kvitova opened her new campaign with a straight-sets win over Tsvetana Pironkova as the Czechs took the Group A tie 2-1. ...

The newcomer played as if she belonged, and by the time this one-sided womens final ended, Maria Sharapova was not the only Wimbledon champion on the grass of Centre Court. Petra Kvitova had never played a Grand Slam singles final before, but she gave barely a hint of her inexperience or nerves, ...

PARIS (Agencies)-Kim Clijsters will face Petra Kvitova in the final of the Open Gaz de France on Sunday. Clijsters, who will be ranked No. 1 on Monday, defeated Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-1, 7-5 on her third match point. Kvitova cruised past Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States 6-2, 6-0. "I ...