(Updated: 13:05)
Tennis player Petra Kvitová will play for her second trophy during a coronavirus break in Berlin today. In the final of the exhibition tournament on the grass, the two-time Wimbledon winner, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolinová, will compete. The match was supposed to start at 13:30, but due to the rain it will start four hours later. Broadcasted by Eurosport 1.
Petra Kvitová in a match with the German Andrea Petkovicová during the tournament in Berlin.
Hannibal Hanschke, Reuters
Thirty-year-old Kvitová won the CTS President’s Cup tournament in Prague at the end of May and now has her first international triumph within reach since the professional season came to a halt due to the pandemic in March. In Berlin, the twelfth player in the world defeated the home team Andrea Petkovicová and the Netherlands Kiki Bertens without losing the set.
Today he meets Svitolinová for the first time on the grass. With the current world number five, Kvitová has a significantly positive balance of 7: 2 on the WTA Tour.
Fast work! Kvitová destroyed the starry Netherlands and is in the final
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