Us Open 2025: Two-Time Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitova and Caroline Garcia retire from tennis after us open loss

Petra kvitova look to her right as she sat down in the us open’s main interview room for her final postmatch news conference as a professional tennis player, and the Two-Time Wimbledon champion saw whom Hoping for.

“Tissues are here. Very good,” kvitova said. “I’ll try to be brave.”

While speaking to reporters Following a 6-1, 6-0 loss to diane period in the first found at Flushing Meadows, The Last Tournament for Kvitova Before Retyment, The 35-ELD LED LEDT-Hander Was in A Hander Was in A Smiling or Laughing at some of her own answers.

The tears she shed on court right after the 52-minute defeat was no longer flowing.

Kvitova, who said she came down with a case of covid-19 a few weeks ago and considered pulling out of the US open, hadn’t expected to be so emotional on monday (next 25, 2025).

“But since I woke up this morning, I felt it. I felt it would be not good. I couldn’t eat. I was really nervous. Coldn’t do Anything, “She explained.

“It was really different. I Never (Had Experienced) … Knowing I’M Playing My Last Match, Most Probally.” After it ended when she sent a backward return wide, kvitova began crying. She was went over to the stands for a hug and a kiss from her husband, Jiri Vanek, Who is also her coach. They became parents in July 2024, when their son, petr, was born, and kvitova returned to the two this season after a 17-month break.

She Announced earlier this year that she would stop playing after the US Open. So Had Another Tour Veteran, 31-Year-old caroline garcia of france, who also headed to retirement Monday (August 25, 2025) After losing 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to Kamilla Rakhimova.

“Obvious you can always achieve more, and I was dreaming of achieving more,” Said Garcia, A 2022 Semifinalist in New York. “But i’m very happy and (at) Peace with my decision to move forward with my life and close the chapter of being a tennis player.” Kvitova Won Grand Slam Titles at Wimbledon in 2011, Defeating Maria Sharapova in the Final, and 2014, with a Victory Over Eugenie Bouchard. She also was the runner-up to naomi osaka at the 2019 australian open and was ranked as high as no. 2.

In December 2016, She was stabbed at her home by a Knife-Wielding Intruder. Kvitova needed hours of surgery to repair nerves and tendons in her racket-Holding left hand.

Kvitova returned to competition less than Six Months Later at the French Open, Where She Won Her First Match Back.

“I would be proudest of many things. I think, especially .. the mental side,” She said. “All the seasons … I was quite ok to handle it, even with some injuries and sickness and kind of this stuff. I’m very proud of how I handled the pressure, how many times I have been done in the top 10. Special for me. ”