Petra Kvitová

Source: Czech Centres / FDULS

Tennis player.

Source: Czech Centres / FDULS

Tennis player who won the Wimbledon Women's Singles in 2011 and 2014, the 2011 Championship in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Fed Cup six times with other Czech teammates.

The illustrated project Czech Heroines was inspired by the centenary of voting rights for Czech women and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Czech writer Božena Němcová. It is a joint project by the Czech Centres, the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia and Radio Prague International.