Petra Kvitova says it's a relief to have completed the first steps of her comeback, and plans to return to normal training if her hand allows.
Kvitova fell to Madison Brengle in three sets in the second round of Wimbledon, calling the doctor just before the match finished and complaining of illness.
"I'm not sure [what happened], actually," she said. "I could not just breathe, and I was feeling a bit sick, as well. That sometimes [happens]. But, yeah, unfortunately it happened at Wimbledon, which is not nice. But she still played what she could. I mean, she hit everything back. It was just tough for me to still have those energy to put it back and play my aggressive game."
Kvitova said she had been more or less fit at the beginning of the encounter.
"But then when the match get longer and longer, I felt a little bit sick and tired,” she said. “So I couldn't really move. I was so slow. I felt like, I don't know, like an animal. But a very slow animal."
