Petra Kvitova celebrates after striking her first ace of the match on matchpoint against former ... [+] winner Maria Sharapova in the finals of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. "I was washing my hair and then somebody came and she said: ‘Just put a little bit of mascara on, dry your hair a little bit more’", Kvitova said in a phone interview from Bad Homburg, Germany last week. "I said, ‘Why?’ She said: ‘You are the Wimbledon champion.’"It was a lady from Nike, she just took care of me when the match was over," recalled Kvitova. Kvitova spoke to the world's media for two hours after winning her first Wimbledon title in 2011. When they announced Wimbledon was canceled, I really felt very sad, I was crying a little bit as well, I got a little bit emotional (that) Wimbledon was not happening.

Source: Forbes June 27, 2021 14:37 UTC