Wimbledon champion suffered severe knife wound to her left playing hand during assault

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A man who stabbed the two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a Czech regional court.

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CTK news agency reported the sentencing on Tuesday. Kvitová sustained severe wounds to her left playing hand as she struggled with the intruder in her flat during the attack in December 2016.

She returned to professional tennis in May 2017, culminating 18 months later with her first grand slam final, at the 2019 Australian Open, since winning Wimbledon in 2014.