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Petra Kvitova Leaves Hospital Vowing to Play Tennis Again

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PRAGUE — Petra Kvitova said she was determined to play tennis again, no matter what that required, after a knife-wielding intruder attacked her inside her home.

Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion, was released from a hospital on Friday, three days after she had surgery for injuries sustained in the attack in the town of Prostejov.

With a big bandage covering her left hand and forearm, Kvitova said she had been told by the surgeon who performed the operation on Tuesday in a special clinic in Vysoke nad Jizerou that her recovery was “looking good and without complications, as it should be.