In Rome, Kvitová started a turnaround against Linette through the canary

Petra Kvitová three weeks before Roland Garros, after a slower start, she started winning the clay tournament in Rome. Fight with Magdou Linetteovou she turned and is in the second round. The eleventh seeded Czech tennis player in the introductory set made a mistake and won a single game, but then Polce gave a ‘kanra’ and turned the lead into a 1-6 6-0 6-2 victory.

World number ten Kvitová masterfully managed both previous matches with the 46th player in the ranking, Linette, but on Roman clay today she did not confirm the role of the favorite in the introduction. In the tournament, where her maximum is the quarterfinals of 2012 and 2015, the two-time Wimbledon winner had to play the first round for the first time in 11 years. Otherwise, it was always deployed directly to the other.

She scored 0-3 against Linette for the first time and lost the opening set in half an hour after receiving an ace from the second hand. Then Kvitová dominated the court, refined the blows and leaned on the service.

The 31-year-old Czech was able to turn the match around after losing the first set for the first time since last February and the subsequent series of seven setbacks. She managed to enter the tournament in the eighth of nine tournaments this year.

Kvitová, who was eliminated in the quarterfinals last week in Madrid with world number one Ashleigh Barty, will face a duel of former world number two against Vera Zvonareva (h2h 3-3), which he will face for the first time in ten years. Russia’s 36-year-old swept the American 6-3 6-0 in the first round Christinu McHaleovou.

Karolína Plíšková, Markéta Vondroušová and Barbora Krejčíková will also perform in singles in Rome.

Last year’s finalist and previous year’s champion Plíšková is the only Czech tennis player in the first round to have a free draw. Today she learned that she will enter the competition in a duel against Latvia Anastasiji sevastovové (h2h 2-2), which initially managed 3-6 6-1 6-3 with Switzerland Jil Teichmannovou.

Vondroušová and Hradecká advanced in doubles
Two Czech tennis players also succeeded in doubles today. Markéta Vondroušová had its winning premiere alongside the former best doubler in the world Kristiny Mladenovicové, the Czech-French pair defeated 6-4 6-4 last year’s French Open finalists Alex Guarachi and Desirae Krawczyk.

Lucie Hradecká a Laura Siegemund on clay in Rome they defeated 6-4 5-7 10-7 Japanese-Kazakh duo Ninomija / Švedovová and on the second attempt they celebrate their first joint victory.

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