Petra Kvitova earns her 22nd career title, defeating four top-10 players to win the Qatar Total Open
PETRA KVITOVA ON 13 MATCH WIN-STREAK, BACK-TO-BACK TITLES IN ST. PETERSBURG AND DOHA
Make it 13 consecutive victories for Qatar Total Open 2018 Champion Petra Kvitova. For the third time this week, she came back from a set down to defeat Garbine Muguruza and claim Doha’s Falcon.
Since falling to Andrea Petkovic in the opening round of the Australian Open, the inspiring Czech has been unbeatable. Two weeks ago, she captured her 21st career title in St. Petersburg. Last weekend in Prague, she won both of her Fed Cup rubbers over Switzerland’s Victorija Golubic and Belinda Bencic, lifting the Czech Republic into the World Group Semifinals for the 10th consecutive year. This week, Petra won six additional matches, eliminating four top-10 players and Agnieska Radwanska to win her first Doha title.
Remarkable.
Tomorrow morning, for the first time since Wimbledon nearly 2-years-ago, Kvitova will return to the WTA’s top-10.
It is baffling to think that just 14 months ago, Petra suffered tendon and nerve damage to all five fingers on her racquet hand, while fending off a home-intruder armed with a knife. Amazingly, five months after surgery, she returned to the tour at Roland Garros; and two weeks later in Birmingham, won her 20th career title in just the second event of her comeback.
With victories in St. Petersburg and Doha, she now owns 22 WTA Singles Titles and is enjoying the longest win-streak of her career.
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Garbine Muguruza. Trophy Ceremony
Qatar TennisLink Article (Arabic)
Player Introduction. Angelique Kerber
Recaps of the 32 matches played on Center Court
Day-7. Champions of the Qatar Total Open 2018
Day-6. Semifinals. Petra Kvitova’s 5th career win over a World #1
Day-5. Quarterfinals. Simona Halep wins, withdraws from the tournament
Day-4. Round of 16. Cici Bellis can’t stop winning
Day-3. Round 2. Another huge Romanian victory. Mihaela Buzarnescu
Day-2. Rounds 1 and 2 matches on center court
Day-1. Round-1. Qualifiers go 4-for-4. Niculescu upsets Sharapova
Qualifying Rounds and Draw Ceremony
Past Champions. Qatar Total Open
Singles Champions
2017 Karolina Pliskova
2016 Carla Suarez Navarro
2015 Lucie Safarova
2014 Simona Halep
2013 Victoria Azarenka
2012 Victoria Azarenka
2011 Vera Zvonareva
2008 Maria Sharapova
2007 Justine Henin
2006 Nadia Petrova
2005 Maria Sharapova
2004 Anastasia Myskina
2003 Anastasia Myskina
2002 Monica Seles
2001 Martina Hingis
Doubles Champions
2017 Katarina Srebotnik / Abigail Spears
2016 Yung-Jan Chan / Hao-Ching Chan
2015 Raquel Atawo / Abigail Spears
2014 Shuai Peng / Su-Wei Hsieh
2013 Roberta Vinci / Sara Errani
2012 Liezel Huber / Lisa Raymond
2011 Kveta Peschke / Katarina Srebotnik
2008 Kveta Peschke / Rennae Stubbs
2007 Martina Hingis / Maria Kirilenko
2006 Daniela Hantuchova / Ai Sugiyama
2005 Alicia Molik / Francesca Schiavone
2004 Svetlana Kuznetsova / Elena Likhovtseva
2003 Janet Lee / Wynne Prakusya
2002 Janette Husarova / Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
2001 Sandrine Testud / Roberta Vinci