Petra Kvitová, a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic, is now engaged to Jiri Vanek, her boyfriend and coach.
Kvitová is a left-handed player who is known for being versatile and having strong groundstrokes. In her career, she has won 29 singles matches, including two Major titles at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014.
She also won a bronze medal in singles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, where she was representing the Czech Republic. On October 31, 2011, she was ranked No. 2 in the world, which was the highest she had ever been.
In 2016, when she won the WTA Elite Trophy, she became the first player to win both divisions of the year-end championships in their first year.
The only thing known about her personal life is that she will play Jessica Pegula in the round of 16 at the US Open this year.
Petra Kvitova Husband Coach Jiri Vanek used to play tennis
Petra Kvitová has won Wimbledon twice, and she is now engaged to her boyfriend, Ji Vank, who is also her coach. They have been together since August 2021.
He was a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic, and he coached Karolna Plková, who was once the number one player in the world.
In 1995, he was a great young player. He was ranked No. 14 in the world for junior singles and No. 21 for doubles. In 1996, he got to the semifinals of the boys’ singles events at both the French Open and the Australian Open.
In the same year, Vank moved up to the level of a professional. He went on to win 11 Challenger tournaments, and in October 2000, he was ranked as high as World No. 74 in the singles category.
Also, he went to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and made it to the second round.
Last month, the two-time Wimbledon champion and her boyfriend got engaged.
On August 24, Petra Kvitova shared on social media that she was getting married to Jiri Vanek, her longtime partner and coach.
The 32-year-old told her social media followers about it by posting a photo of the couple.
Petra’s coach and boyfriend, Jiri Vanek, who is 44 years old, got down on one knee at Wimbledon, where she won in 2011 and 2014, and asked her to marry him. She said “Yes.”
The Czech star wrote in the caption of an Instagram post, “We have some good news for you guys… In my special place, I said “yes.””
People who know Petra were happy to hear the news. One person wrote, “OMG, congratulations, Petra!”
“Hello to Petra and Jiri,” wrote another person. I hope that everything goes well for you.
The 32-year-old is getting ready to marry her boyfriend
Petra Kvitova, who has won Wimbledon twice, is getting married to Jiri Vanek, her coach and fiance, who is 44 years old.
They are planning their wedding slowly because there is a lot to do before their perfect ceremony, where they will say their vows and make their relationship last forever.
Since about the middle of 2020, there have been rumors that 44-year-old Vanek and Kvitova are together. During the off-season of 2016, they started to work together. Karolina Pliskova was a student of his in the past.
The World No. 21 made her relationship with Vanek public a year before the Grand Slam in New York. Most people think that the couple met for the first time at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome last year.
The two sporty people are 12 years apart in age
Petra Kvitova and Jiri Vanek are 12 years apart in age, but that doesn’t seem to bother them. They seem to enjoy every moment they spend together.
Petra is 12 years younger than Jiri, the man she is going to marry. She lives in Monte Carlo, Monaco, right now, but she was born in Bolec, Czechoslovakia, on March 8, 1990. (now the Czech Republic).
On the other hand, her boyfriend lives in Prague, Czech Republic. He was born in Domalice, Czechoslovakia, on April 24, 1978.
On their social media pages, they have a number of photos that show how attractive the couple looks while on vacation and at other times.
In an August 10 post, Petra wrote: “Today, we spent the whole day at Niagara Falls. Wow! What an adventure! It’s hard to believe how strong nature can be.”
The new partner of Kvitova is divorced and has two children
Before he met Petra, Jiri was married to Marketa, who is now his ex-wife. And they are said to have two children.
In fact, his 19-year-old son Giorgio Vank suggests that he and his ex-wife got married between 2000 and 2005.
Not much is known about his first marriage, but he got a divorce from his ex-wife. Now, he is ready to start a new life with Petra, the woman he is with right now.
She was engaged to hockey player Radek Meidl in 2015 before she met Jiri
Radek Meidl, a Czech ice hockey player, and Petra announced with joy in December 2015 that they were going to get married. But not long after that, the two broke up.
Just before they broke up, she said. “He plays ice hockey, and he and I are both good at what we do.” However, it’s still unique.
“It’s weird that I’m performing in the summer and he’s performing in the Czech Republic in the winter.”
Also, Adam Pavlasek, a Czech tennis player, was the first person she was known to have dated in public. From 2011 to 2013, they were together.
After they broke up, she started dating Radek Stepanek, a Czech tennis player who has a history of dating other tennis players. They spent a year together.
The total amount of money that Petra Kvitova and her boyfriend have is more than $30 million
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Petra Kvitova has a net worth of $24 million, which is more than her fiance Jiri, who is worth about $6 million.
Both of these athletes have made a lot of money over the course of their careers. She has also won more than $18 million since she turned professional in 2006.
Kvitová makes money from things other than tennis. She endorses Nike clothing and shoes.
She uses the same kind of tennis racquet as Roger Federer, a Wilson Pro Staff 97. IMG is her agent now because they signed a contract with her in August 2014.
Also, UniCredit Bank and eská pota, a Czech Republic postal service, are two more organizations that back her.
Earnings from endorsement deals for the sixth best-paid female athlete
In January 2015, Kvitová was named the Global Athlete Ambassador of Right To Play, a global organization whose goal is to use sports and games to teach and empower children who are going through hard times.
Three months later, it came out that Kvitová had signed a deal with Beverly Hills watchmaker Ritmo Mundo for a number of years. After signing a one-year contract, in June 2016 she added ALO Diamonds, a Czech jewelry company, to her list of sponsors.
Petra also told people on her social media accounts in May 2018 that she was a TAG Heuer ambassador. On the other hand, Kvitová is an ambassador for the French skincare company L’Occitane en Provence.
Forbes ranked Kvitová as the sixth best-paid female athlete in the world in 2015. She was fifth among tennis players.
Early years
Petra Kvitová was born in Blovec, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechoslovakia, to Ji Kvita, who was mayor and used to teach school, and Pavla Kvitová (now Czech Republic). Ji Jr., an engineer, and Libor, a school teacher, are her older brothers. Her father Ji taught her how to play tennis. She looked up to the Czech-American tennis player Martina Navratilova when she was young. Kvitová trained in her Moravian hometown of Fulnek until she was 16. At that point, a tennis coach encouraged her to become a professional tennis player. [6] David Kotyza was her coach from November 2008 to January 2016.
Career
On July 9, 2007, when Kvitová was a junior, she was ranked No. 27 in the world. She also had a 35–7 record in singles play and a 20–9 record in doubles play. As a junior, she only played in one Grand Slam tournament, and that was at Wimbledon in 2007. In singles, eighth-seeded Kvitová beat Jocelyn Rae and Malena Gordo to get to the round of 16. She then lost in straight sets to Katarzyna Piter, who went on to reach the semifinals. In doubles, she played with another Czech, Kateina Vaková. However, Mariana Duque Mario and Michelle Larcher de Brito beat them in the first round.
Kvitová first tried to get into a WTA tournament at the 2007 Prague Open. However, she lost to Ekaterina Ivanova in the second round of qualifying. Then, at the 2007 Nordic Light Open, she played in the main draw of a WTA event for the first time. In the first round, she lost in three sets to Marta Domachowska. In 2006 and 2007, Kvitová won six ITF singles titles. Four of those titles were won in her home country. [8] She also played doubles with Barbora Strcová for the first time in the Fed Cup in 2007. They lost to the Spanish team of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Virginia Ruano Pascual.
Kvitová started off 2008 by beating Anabel Medina Garrigues in her first match of the year in Paris. This was her first win ever in the main draw of the WTA, but she lost to Elena Dementieva, who was the fourth seed. Then, in Memphis, she beat world No. 8 and defending champion Venus Williams in the first round for her first top-10 win. She played her first Fed Cup singles match in April. Her opponent was the Israeli Shahar Pe’er, and she won in three sets. In the same month, she also won her seventh and last ITF singles title. Kvitová then played in her first Grand Slam tournament, the French Open. She beat Akiko Morigami, Samantha Stosur, and the 12th seed, gnes Szávay, on her way to the last 16, where she lost to Kaia Kanepi in three sets. Then, at the Beijing Olympics, Kvitová played doubles with Lucie afáová. They lost to the Australian team of Stosur and Rennae Stubbs in the first round. In October, as an unseeded player, she made it to the quarterfinals in Zurich. She lost to the second seed, Ana Ivanovic, but the loss put her in the top 50 rankings for the first time. At the end of 2008, she was ranked 44 in the world.