{"id":92841,"date":"2025-08-26T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/92841\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:53:07","slug":"us-open-2025-results-petra-kvitova-and-caroline-garcia-bring-careers-to-close-at-flushing-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/92841\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2025 results: Petra Kvitova and Caroline Garcia bring careers to close at Flushing Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kvitova has been a fan favourite for many years thanks to her huge groundstrokes and booming left-handed serve.<\/p>\n

There were fears her career would end prematurely after she was stabbed in her left hand by an intruder at her home in 2016.<\/p>\n

The attack damaged tendons and nerves in her playing hand but she returned to playing in June 2017 and went on to reach the Australian Open final two years later.<\/p>\n

In recent years she has fallen down the rankings and last made the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam in 2020.<\/p>\n

Kvitova missed the entire 2024 season to have her son, Petr, and only returned to action in February.<\/p>\n

It took her five tournaments to register her first victory – which came against Irina-Camelia Begu on clay in Rome in May – but that was her only win since becoming a mother.<\/p>\n

Almost two months on from bidding a tearful goodbye to Wimbledon<\/a> – which she called her “special place” – Kvitova called time on her career at the tournament where she twice reached the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

After quickly going down a break against world number 107 Parry, she rallied to reach 40-0 on serve then saved a break point to get her first game on the board.<\/p>\n

But that proved to be her only success in a one-sided first set that Parry wrapped up in just 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

Kvitova exited the court between sets to regroup – already visibly emotional at the prospect of this being her last match – but the second followed a similar pattern.<\/p>\n

Winning just four points behind her own serve, Kvitova suffered a second-set bagel as Parry saw out a clinical victory.<\/p>\n

“Since I wake up this morning, I felt it. I felt it would be not good,” Kvitova added.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t eat. I was really nervous. couldn’t move, I couldn’t swing, I couldn’t do anything.<\/p>\n

“It was really difficult but I’m glad I did it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kvitova has been a fan favourite for many years thanks to her huge groundstrokes and booming left-handed serve.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-92841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}