Petra Kvitova injured in knife attack at home in Czech Republic. File Pic[/caption]Internet Desk: Ace tennis player and two times Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitova has been injured by a knife-wielding burglar and that too at her home in the Czech Republic.
The player's spokesperson, Karel Tejkal, said "Kvitova, suffered a left hand injury and had been treated by doctors but her injuries were not life-threatening."
Tejkal says that the incident happened this morning in the town of Prostejov in the east of the country.
Kvitova, who reportedly broke up with her boyfriend, Czech ice hockey player Radek Meidl, earlier this year, is reputed to be worth £12million.
Earlier today she withdrew from the Czech Republic team at next month's Hopman Cup mixed-team tennis tournament in Australia because of a foot injury.
Only hours before being stabbed, Kvitova tweeted: 'I am so disappointed that I cannot play at the Hopman Cup. The results of an MRI have confirmed that my foot is healing but…not as quickly as I would have liked. The Hopman Cup is a fantastic event and I'm sorry I won't be able to represent my country there.'
Tejkal said: 'Petra Kvitova was attacked in her flat this morning, it was a random crime, nobody was going to attack or rob her as Petra Kvitova.
'She was injured with a knife during the attempted burglary. Her life is not in danger, she is being treated by doctors.'
Kvitova first won Wimbledon in 2011, beating Maria Sharapova in the final.
Three years later she won the tournament again, thrashing France's Eugenie Bouchard.
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