Tennis players who were victims of an attack
3) Anna Chakvetadze
The dream run of another rising teenager was cut short by an unforeseen attack. During 2006, a 19 year old Russian Anna Chakvetadze was rising up the ranks in the WTA circuit. She had defeated top ranked players like Elena Dementieva and Nadia Petrova and reached a career high ranking of world number 5.
Reaching semi-finals of multiple tournaments with relative ease, she was left completely unaware when disaster struck. Her house would be robbed in December 2007 by six invaders. Unlike Kvitova’s case, here the target was the tennis star herself as the invaders looted 306,000 USD cash and a Rolex watch which Anna had won.
Though the invaders were nabbed soon after, Anna would never recover from the shock. On the tennis court, she would be reduced to a shell of her previous self and would soon retire in 2013, aged only 26.
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