Petra Kvitova, who will crack the Top 10 for the first time on Monday, will not play the WTA Premier 5 tournament in Rome next week, instead entering a $100,000 ITF Challenger in Prague. Vera Zvonareva is also skipping the tournament. Rome is no longer a mandatory tournament on the WTA; it is a Premier 5 event, and the only stipulation in regards to the Premier 5s is that players in the previous years’s Top 10 ranking must play four out of five Premier 5s, which also include Dubai, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo.—Matthew Cronin
Kvitova to play Challenger instead of Rome
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