LONDON — After just two tournaments back on tour after a knife attack that damaged her primary playing hand, Petra Kvitova has completed an improbable transition from sentimental favorite to oddsmakers’ choice.
The third event of her comeback will be Wimbledon, where she won her two Grand Slam singles titles, in 2011 and 2014. Kvitova, a 27-year-old left-hander, is the No. 11 seed and will play Johanna Larsson, 28, of Sweden in the first round Monday.
After an intruder at Kvitova’s home in the Czech Republic sliced her hand in December, she underwent surgery and months of rehabilitation, then returned to the tour earlier than expected — at the French Open in May.