New Delhi: On her return to competitive tennis after embracing motherhood, former World No.2 Petra Kvitova expects to find the going tough and has no great expectations but couldn’t stay away from it either.

The Czech last played a match on WTA tour in the fall of 2023 at the China Open in Beijing, going down to Liudmila Samsonova in a second-round loss. She then planned for a baby with husband/coach Jiri Vanek.

Now after a 17-month maternity leave, with her brother Libor also in child-care duty for seven-month-old son Petr, the two-time Wimbledon champion will play against World No. 189 Jodie Burrage in the first round of the ATX Open in Texas, USA.

“You can’t imagine how it will be until you have a baby,” Kvitova........

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