PARIS, France - Petra Kvitova was one of the breakout stars of this year's Australian Open, upsetting Samantha Stosur en route to her second Grand Slam quarterfinal. The Czech rising star writes her first blog from Paris...

Petra Kvitova

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Hello again everyone!

It was a very nice match against Barbora today. I won it, 7-6 in the third set, and she had match point at 6-5. It's always tough to play friends, and Barbora and I are really good friends. We just played Fed Cup together on the weekend too. Anyway, it was very nice tennis from both of us. I'm very happy I'm through because I was really fighting the whole match. It was more than three hours!

I'll answer some more questions now... thank you for sending them in!

Do you think the Czech Republic has a good chance to win against Belgium in the next round of Fed Cup? Mario, Switzerland
It's very tough to say because you never know who will be playing the tie and how we will all be doing at that time. But no matter what, we will be fighting.

When will you get your own official website? Mehdy
I'm not sure... I actually haven't thought about it yet :)

How long will you be wearing your braces? Ondra, Czech Republic
I've been wearing them for one year and one month, and hopefully they will be out in March or April!

Will you be playing Acapulco or Monterrey? Ricardo, México
I'm actually going to be at home practicing. I'm playing in Dubai and Doha the next two weeks, then back home, then I'm going to Indian Wells.

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