Exactly five years ago, a dramatic incident took place in Petra Kvitová’s apartment. The perpetrator was injured by a perpetrator in the robbery’s arm during a robbery. The two-time Wimbledon winner has long recovered from the ambush. Radim Žondra, whom the court identified as the culprit, remains in prison, he never admitted his guilt.
Just four days before Christmas 2016, a man rang in the morning at Petra Kvitová’s apartment building in Prostějov. He stated that he was going to overhaul the boiler. When Kvitová objected to him that he had no boiler, he added that he could also check the hot water at the same time. The following moments changed the career of a Czech tennis player.
As she released the hot water in the bathroom, he placed a knife around her neck, which Kvitová grabbed with both hands to push it away from the sensitive area. In self-defense, she injured her left hand, which holds the missile. Subsequently, she offered Žondra 10,000 crowns for leaving.
He didn’t want to leave first. “That’s when my mental strength showed up. I tried to offer him money to leave. At first he didn’t want to say he needed time to think. I told him I didn’t have time to think I had to go to the hospital,” she said. after years of tennis player. Then she called for help. “He could have killed me,” she added.
A difficult convalescence followed for the then 28-year-old. At first, the doctors operated on her hand for four hours, and she did not return to the tournaments until after a six-month break in mid-2017.
Radim Žondra, who was identified by the police as the perpetrator and the findings of her investigation were also confirmed by the court, is now serving a prison sentence. The Olomouc Supreme Court increased the originally eight-year prison sentence to an eleven-year sentence by reclassifying its conduct as a robbery that has a stricter penalty. The president of the court, Vladimír Rutar, did not doubt Žondr’s guilt by pointing to sufficient evidence, including Kvitová’s testimony and the offender’s previous criminal activity.
That is why the judge leaned towards the upper half of the increased penalty. In 2013, Žondra was convicted of attacks on seniors, and in 2018, two years after Kvitová’s attack, he was also convicted of robbing those who attacked a lawyer in Blansko.
Kvitová, who was immediately informed by Karel Tejkal at the tournament in Australia, also welcomed the increase in punishment. In the years after the attack, she tried to sell the apartment where the attack took place. It did not succeed until June this year, after it allegedly reduced the price to below 6 million crowns.
“After that, I didn’t go out for a long time. I was just with people I know, loved ones. I don’t trust people yet. Especially men. Maybe that’s why I don’t have one right now. I don’t trust people I only know for a short time,” she said for British The Guardian Kvitová.
Žondra last tried to reverse a court decision through the Constitutional Court with complaints from the end of last year. In April, the court issued a resolution confirming the correct procedure of previous trials.
“The general courts have dealt with the case thoroughly and repeatedly, dispelled the alleged doubts and, on the basis of the evidence presented, have reached a clear conclusion that the complainant has fulfilled all the characteristics of the offenses,” the resolution said.
The attacker alleged that the Regional Court in Brno and the High Court in Olomouc had omitted some of his evidence and had not heard the witness he had proposed. According to him, there were also mistakes in recognition, when Kvitová appointed him as an attacker, and in the processing of odorous traces. He also wanted to take a lie detector test. In this case, too, however, constitutional judges have defended ordinary courts.
Petra Kvitová is currently the 17th player in the world and the third best-placed Czech in the WTA rankings behind the fourth Karolína Plíšková and the fifth Barbora Krejčíková.
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