The attacker on Kvitová will remain in prison. The court rejected the appeal

The Supreme Court rejected Radim Žondra’s appeal. A man who was sentenced to eleven years in prison for assaulting Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová.

The attack took place just before Christmas 2016. At that time, the man almost prematurely ended Kvitová’s career. During the attack, which took place in her apartment, he caused serious cuts to the tennis player.

Žondra was first sentenced to eight years in prison by the Regional Court in Brno for his act. However, the High Court of Appeal tightened his sentence by three years.

He tried to turn the case around in the Supreme Court. He decided at the end of July. It was not yet known what verdict he had delivered. The News List now found that Žondra had failed his appeal.

“The appeal of the accused was rejected by the Supreme Court,” confirmed Miroslava Klusová, assistant to the vice-president of the Regional Court in Brno.

Radim Žondra claimed from the beginning that he had not attacked Kvitová in her apartment. He also questioned the security of the odor tracks that the police found in two places on the sweatshirt of the attacked tennis player and which led to Žondra.

The perpetrator also contradicted the so-called recognition – when Kvitová called him an attacker. He also did not like the fact that the court did not hear some witnesses who could speak in his favor. He mainly contradicted the very testimony of the attacked tennis player.

However, Judge of the Court of Appeal Vladimír Rutar stated in his judgment that there were no longer any doubts about the case.

Rutar also came up with a new motive for why Žondra attacked Kvitová. According to him, the attacker, who had no personal connection to the tennis player, did not enter her home due to the discharge of unreasonable aggression.

“On the contrary, given the poor financial situation of the defendant, it is entirely logical to conclude on a greedy motive. After the defendant caused the injured, which was not in his original scenario, he was obviously taken aback, as confirmed by the injured Kvitová in her statement, and demanded that she be given time to consider his next course of action, “Judge Rutar wrote.

“In this situation, it certainly came in handy for the aggrieved Kvitová to offer him a sum of money, when she found herself in a situation that was hopeless for her at the time, as she needed medical treatment and the defendant prevented her from leaving the apartment and communicating by mobile phone.” he added.

Žondra previously admitted that he was in Prostějov the day before the attack. He worked at his sister’s apartment. However, he insisted that at the time of the attack he was no longer in Prostějov, but on the construction site in Napajedly.

He tried to prove it with photographs, information from the construction diary or the testimony of his colleagues. But the courts did not believe him that he had not attacked Kvitová.