It was a rocking game. First, she won the first set with a style 6:1, lost the next 4:6, then Kvitová, the fifth player in the world, gave the canary. After the match, she even felt the need to apologize to her opponent.

“I’m sorry Uns for the lines that fell on me there, I didn’t even want it like that. Sometimes there are days when you go there, but it flies off the pitch and sometimes it goes that way . It depends on how I sleep. And today was a great match for both sides,” a beaming Kvitová said after qualifying for the quarter-finals.

The last time she won three games in a row was in June during a winning campaign in Eastbourne, England. Since then, she has suffered from a recurring wrist injury and has been looking to regain her old form.

“At Eastbourne it was on grass, on my beloved grass. She was even faster there than at Wimbledon. Here it’s something else, I even escaped the match point in the first round. Those three matches will help my self-confidence a lot,” said the 32-year-old tennis player.

The Tennis Now server even published an article after her triumph on Thursday with a question mark in the title: “Is Petra Kvitová a player we should watch at the US Open?”

According to the editorial staff, the Czech could cause a stir in New York, as her form is visibly improving and she is starting to improve physically. He handles three-set battles even on a heated pitch.

“It still wasn’t good in Toronto, I got knocked out in the first round there, but the three games in Cincinnati helped me catch up with the game, and this tournament isn’t exactly the one of my favourites,” said the Czech tennis player. smiles.

She will face Australian Ajla Tomljanovic, against whom she has never played before, for the semi-finals on Friday at 7:30 p.m. CET.

“I think my form is finally settling in, everything is falling into place, I will try to continue,” promised the tennis player from Fulnek.