Kvitova’s compatriot Hana Mandlikova, and her one-time fellow Top 10 player Carla Suarez Navarro, are also mothers to twins, as are International Tennis Hall of Famers Gigi Fernandez and Pam Shriver.
Mandlikova welcomed Elizabeth and Mark in 2001. Both are tennis players, with Elizabeth Mandlik currently competing on the WTA tour and reaching a career-high ranking of No. 97 in 2023, while Mark Mandlik had a standout college career at the University of Oklahoma.
Shriver welcomed a son and a daughter in 2005, and Fernandez followed in 2009. A decade-and-a-half later, Suárez Navarro and her partner, soccer star Olga García, welcomed twin daughters, Noa and Ona, in June 2023, after the former world No. 6 beat Hodgkin lymphoma.
Former world No. 2 Kvitova, who may be primed to join Fernandez, Mandlikova and Shriver in the Hall of Fame at some point down the road, is no doubt overjoyed to be part of this exclusive club. She claimed 31 career titles and 634 match victories during her career, which ended officially after last year’s US Open. The left-hander won one of nine matches she played in 2025 in her brief comeback following Petr’s birth, and intimated her hopes of expanding her family by saying she was “totally ready” to hang up her racquets.
