People from Bilovec - Kv?ta Peschke, Petra Kvitova, Jan Stehlik (Paperback)

Chapters: Kv?ta Peschke, Petra Kvitova, Jan Stehlik. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kvtoslava (abbr. Kvta) Peschke, also known as Kvta Peschkeova (nee Hrdlikova; born July 9, 1975 in Bilovec, Czechoslovakia) is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet. After a 2004 season playing primarily on the ITF circuit, in the 2005 tennis season, as one of the older players on the WTA tour, she had a successful year in both singles and doubles. In her first event of the season, she reached the quarter-finals of a Tier V event in Hobart, defeating two top players on the way in Martina Sucha and Anabel Medina Garrigues, the fifth-seeded player of the tournament. After a first round loss at the Australian Open to the number three-seeded player from Russia, Anastasia Myskina, she failed to get very far in any tournaments until April at the Tier II event in Amelia Island, reaching the last 16 after qualifying and defeating Amy Frazier, the 16th seed, before falling to the number one in the world at that time, Lindsay Davenport. Peschke again reached the last 16 at the Tier I event in Berlin, defeating the fifth-seeded and number 10 in the world, Vera Zvonareva, before losing to Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium in a tough three-set match, 64 46 26. After a disappointing second-round loss at the French Open to Israel's Shahar Peer and a first-round loss at S'Hertogenbosch to Russia's Maria Kirilenko, she sprung back to prominence at Wimbledon. On the way to a fourth-round appearance at the Grand Slam grass event, she defeated three players of higher ranking than herself, Dally Randriantefy, Vera Zvonareva and Conchita M...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=544700