Petra Kvitova made her first appearance at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston since 2016. However, she lost to Krystina Pliskova in her opening-round match on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters ahead of her debut in the American tournament, the two-time Wimbledon champion said: 'I'm all right, and that's what's important.

My (left) hand will never be 100 percent, but I don't worry about it. My health is good, and that's what's important.' Kvitova won the Qatar Open in Doha in February and cracked the top-10 again. In her journey to tennis elite, the support she received from her colleagues was definitely important.

'It was such a nice feeling to be back and see how the players were cheering for me,' she added. 'They cried in the locker room when I played, so it was very emotional for everyone. In the time I was off, it meant a lot, what I was hearing from them.' Kvitova has reached a career high as the world no.

2, but wants to become the world no. 1. 'I still do have the goal to be there, I think somewhere inside me it’s still there but on the other hand, I’m not really focusing on anything like that. It’s changed a little bit,' she told Sport360.

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