By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday August 19, 2019
Petra Kvitova is training for the U.S. Open but still not close to 100 percent healthy.
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Petra Kvitova is still not quite healthy a 2019’s final major of the season approaches. The 29-year-old World No.6 told WTA Insider Courtney Nguyen that she is still struggling with the left forearm injury that forced her to miss Roland Garros and nearly kept her out of Wimbledon.
“I had a tear in my forearm and it’s pretty healed, but something around it is going badly," Kvitova told Nguyen before her first and only match at the Western and Southern Open last week (she lost to Maria Sakkari in three sets). "Maybe the scar with the muscle is doing some bad things. Sometimes it’s getting swollen and there’s pain.”
Kvitova has only played five matches since announcing her withdrawal from Roland Garros in May. She reached the second week at Wimbledon, but never did feel 100 percent healthy.
"I was off after Wimbledon for 10 days and I started to practice and it was swollen like a tennis ball,” she said, adding that she may have made the wrong decision by playing Wimbledon but she absolutely could not resist making the trek to tennis Mecca. "I’m not sure if I started too early, maybe I should skip Wimbledon and have one extra week. But my heart would cry if I missed Wimbledon.”
With a week to go until the U.S. Open, Kvitova will have about 12 days without any matches. Will it be enough time to get back to 100 percent?
We will have to wait and see.
Kvitova owns a lifetime record of 25-11 at the U.S. Open, it is the only Slam that the Czech has not reached at least the semis at.