Istanbul: Defending champion Petra Kvitova has withdrawn from the WTA Championships due to a viral illness and will be replaced by Samantha Stosur, tournament officials announced on Wednesday.
The world number six was able to play her first match in the White group on Tuesday but was toppled 6-3 6-2 by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in a contest that saw the Czech commit a whopping 41 unforced errors.
Australian Stosur will complete the other matches Kvitova was due to play in the four-woman round robin group against Russia's Maria Sharapova and Italy's Sara Errani.
Petra Kvitova has withdrawn from the WTA Championships due to a viral illness and will be replaced by Stosur.
The WTA Championships features the world's top eight women with the Red group comprising Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, American Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber of Germany and Li Na of China.
Kvitova is scheduled to represent her country in the Fed Cup final against Serbia in Prague next week but her participation in that event has yet to be confirmed.
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Petra Zhul Kvitová (born March 8, 1990 in Bílovec, Czech Republic) is a female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She scored a huge victory at the 2008 Cellular South Cup, when she defeated defending champion and top seed Venus Williams ...
Samantha Stosur (born 30 March 1984 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 on WTA Tour in doubles, together with Lisa Raymond from the United States. As of April 20, 2009, Stosur is ra ...
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. As of June 11, 2012 she is ranked world no. 1. A United States resident since 1994,[4] Sharapova has won 27 WTA singles titles, including four Grand Slam si ...
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